Casey Reas Response

Casey Reas, in his presentation, speaks about order and chaos which is reflected in much of his artwork. His art is taking chaotic elements and implying an order to create his art. These chaotic elements come from organic pieces such as human vision and spreading cancer cells to less organic chaos like television signals and…

Casey Reas response

In his talk, Casey Reas talks about the motivations and thought processes behind his work, particularly his generative art. Although he works with new media, he also references artists like Mondrian and Duchamp; his themes of chance vs. order draw on a history of playing with structure in modern art. Reas is interested in how…

Writing assignment 2

Response to Reas Influenced by the Dada and Fluxus movements Casey Reas explores the role of order and chance through computer software to create art. Unlike other artists investigating “the system”, Reas is interested in breaking apart the notions of why the system exists and how the viewer responds to changes within that system. In…

Casey Reas Caelen Peshek

Casey Reas presentation of his work was really interesting to watch because he explains different tools and processes that he uses to create his work. In the beginning he shows prints that he made and as he explained them it was hard to believe the amount of planning behind each piece. He wanted to create…

Casey Reas Response

Casey Reas, a visual artist, presents us with the concept of history influencing art throughout decades. Reas introduces his audience to what he refers as order and chaos, which wraps up the concept that influence many artists till this day. Art has gone from the traditional period to a brand new concept of modern art….

Casey Reas Response

Casey Reas starts his presentation by discussing chaos and order. He shows us some of his first programmed work from 1998 and he explains how he learned to start using precise geometry to make his work exactly how he wanted. Later in the presentation, Reas talks about something called Fractal Invaders, which uses a 5×5…

Response to Casey Reas: Chance Operations

Visual Artist Casey Reas has spent the past decade exploring the relationship of chaos and order in systems. Early in his presentation Reas mentions his gravitation towards artificial intelligence and the phenomenon of emergence. In an effort to pull organic form from the synthetic, Reas tugs at the factors of disorder to yield a surprisingly…

Casey Reas: Chance Operations

Casey Reas is a New Media Artist who likes to focus in on the artwork, mostly created digitally by software and programming, which explores the ideas randomness, chaos, and order. Reas, during his Chance Operations talk at the Eyeo Festival, brought many pieces and processes to my attention, which have drastically changed over the century…

Response to Casey Reas video Casey Reas creates art by using software and programs. He would create the code for the program to generate elaborate conceptual images. He focuses on both order and noise in order to generate art that looks continuous. In many of his projects he would focus on structure and the paths…

Eyeo Response

            Casey Reas shows us visual art in many perspectives as well as how historical events changes art to different directions.  One perspective he shows is about order and chaos.  The use of animations and music demonstrate how art has changed.  The way how people see art as well as how…

HOMEWORK- Reas Eyeo2012

Kristen Martin AD100 T-TH 1:00PM-3:40PM                                                                 Eyeo 2012 Response At the Eyeo2012 Festival, the Presenter Casey Reas,  talks about the role of chance in art from past paintings like Piet Mondrian’s Composition of Yellow, Blue and Red to current modern day works like Reas’s collaboration project called Signal. A project that was super inspiring was…