You will find examples related to structures in this article. Inspired by sol lewitts wall drawings, software structures explores the relevance of conceptual art to the idea of software as art. This book introduces this new literacy by teaching. This is a processing forum for the software, not a general purpose programming forum. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a new form of literacy that enables them to create new media for the present, and to imagine future media that are beyond the capacities of current software tools. Notations, algorithms and codes powerpoint presentation free to download id. In what follows, a turinguniversal model of some natural and manmade phenomena, selfassembly, is adapted to the automatic creation of visual art. The work takes inspiration from both sol lewitts instructional wall drawings and their reinterpretation by casey reas in software structures, particularly his comparison between wall and screen, and his thoughts on process. The pieces in the exhibition are all programmed using instructions, sets of rules, and code, but they also address the use of programming in their creation. Casey reas born 1972 develops his own software to create generative artworks in video, sound, installation, and other media.
Software structures whitney museum of american art. In this tutorial, youll learn about struct types in c programming. Software structures was created in 2004 by casey reas in association with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan and was restored in 2016 by casey reas. In c programming, a struct or structure is a collection of variables can be of different types under a single name. Projecting software on a wall creates more potential similarities between wall drawings and software structures. Reas is perhaps best known for having created, with ben fry, the processing programming language. A structure is a collection of variables of different data types. The development platform consisted of the atmega168 microcontroller as its brains and used an ide based on processing, which was cocreated by casy reas. Casey reas writes software to explore conditional systems as art. Casey reas is an artist whose works explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. For the american artist casey reas b1972, programming is a way of thinking.
Architecture, art and science in the age of software development architectural design. This work includes text descriptions and software interpretations process compendium introduction on vimeo. Casey reas is professor of design media arts at ucla and coauthor of processing. Twentysix pieces of software derived from these structures were written to isolate different components of software structures including interpretation, material, and process. Goto 10 by nick montfort, patsy baudoin, john bell, ian bogost, jeremy douglass, mark c. Many of us have seen the romantic photographs of jackson pollock hunched over the canvas at his studio with a paint can in one hand and a brush in the other.
Casey reas, still life hsb b, 2016 casey reas presents a new solo exhibition theres no distance at bitforms gallery. For example, casey reas through his software structures takes verbal descriptions of processes to produce visual components and turns them into programsreas 2009. Histories of the digital now whitney museum of american art. Marino, michael mateas, casey reas, mark sample, noah vawter. Rules, codes, and choreographies in art, 19652018 establishes connections between works of art based on instructions, spanning over fifty years of conceptual, video, and computational art. A programming handbook for visual designers and artists with mit press last december. Reas and fry, getting started with processing shows you how easy it is to make software and systems with interactive graphics. Contemporary cameras, copiers, elevators, toys, washing machines, and artworks found in galleries and museums are controlled with software. They were created for the software structures project, commissioned by the whitney museum of. This ten minute presentation introduces the process works created by casey reas from 20042010. Processing was initiated by ben fry and casey reas. Reas and fry wrote about the history of our processing language and discussed potential future innovations beyond the project. Because this book explains a lot of simple tricks and useful techniques to speed up common programming tasks it is a useful addition to conventional textbooks dealing with more theoretical aspects of programming.
Reas holds a bachelor of science in design from the college of design, architecture, art, and planning at the university of cincinnati 1996, as well as a master of science in media arts and sciences from the massachusetts institute of technology 2001. Casey reas writes software to explore emergent systems. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Casey reass disconcerting software paintings the village voice. Reas or casey reas, is an american artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. A surface filled with one hundred medium to small sized circles. In terms of software, analogies may be made between the wall and the screen different sizes, resolution and the wall and the hardware on which the software is running different speeds and operating systems. In the tradition of the 90s www, this site is always a work in progress and rough around the edges. Casey reas writes software to explore emergent systems and his work spans installation, works on paper, and live performance. A programming handbook for visual designers and artists mit press, 2007.
Hernando barragan worked under the guidance of massimo banzi and casey reas and created a development platform called wiring as his masters thesis project at idii. Marino, michael mateas, casey reas, mark sample, and noah vawter 2012 a single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing. Processing is also discussed through examples and projects in the following books. To understand examples in this page, you should have the knowledge of the following topics. Artist casey reas, whose fourth solo show, theres no distance, is on. Processing is one example of a free, open, and modular software system with a focus on. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. This repo includes code from jared tarbell jaredtarbell, robert hodgin flight404, william ngan williamngan, and casey reas reas. Library of congress cataloging in publication data. Surely im now complaining about the need to learn another lenguage, in this case c, for the school, but i would like to keep some comforts of processing, in this case the whole text editing part. Software is not limited to running on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and phones. His software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. A process interpretation in software is a kinetic drawing machine with a beginning but no.
Jul 26, 2010 for example, casey reas through his software structures takes verbal descriptions of processes to produce visual components and turns them into programs reas 2009. This book takes a single line of codethe extremely concise basic program for the commodore 64 inscribed in the titleand uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. See more ideas about generative art, art and abstract landscape. Unless otherwise noted, the code was written with processing and p5.
To understand examples in this page, you should have the knowledge of. Software structures a surface filled with one hundred medium to small sized circles. Casey edwin barker reas born 1972, also known as c. Reas software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. Maintaining the separation between concept and execution, folds treats data, motion, and ink equally as material.
Reas is someone who emphasises his connection with the preceding generation, specifically with the work of lewitt. Originally created by casey reas with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan, software structures was restored by reas in 2016 to work well with contemporary web browsers. There is an increased understanding that software is central to our lives reas is known as the man who helped to create the opensource programming language processing and brought coding within the grasp of visual artists. Each circle has a different size and direction, but moves at the same slow rate. To further define the concept of software structures, i wrote and commissioned twentyfour implementations of these structures to isolate different aspects including interpretation, material, and process. His accomplishments include the opensource coding language processing, now used by thousands of artists, teachers, and students. Reas began writing software to produce his own complex images, which take the form of prints, installations, and sitespecific digital murals.
Breeding objects computational design, from digital fabrication to. Casey reas cocreated processing, an opensource programming language and environment for creating images and animation. I began to answer the question by implementing three of lewitts drawings in software. Is the history of conceptual art relevant to the idea of software as art. Software art will present four of these artists and one artist team, and their art created with software to be experienced on a computer monitor. Thoughts on software for the visual arts processing foundation. To further define the concept of software structures i have written and commissioned.
Processing has a core that changes slowly, while the structure of the code supports. I had two large commissions in 2014 a twowall printed mural at the university of texas at austin and a thirtysixscreen software mural for a private collection in washington d. Pdf on jan 1, 2008, sadhana deshpande and others published casey, v. Reass software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. The original software was created as java applets which are no longer widely supported in web browsers.
It is a microworld where thousands of autonomous software organisms and a. You will learn to define and use structures with the help of examples. Yes no software 2 network d image 2 100% gray coverage i want programming to be as immediate and fluid as drawing. For each, you may view the software, source code, and comments. A diptych projection from my software structures 2004 was. Nick montfort, patsy baudoin, john bell, ian bogost, jeremy douglass, mark c. Its my office and also the home of the ucla arts software studio. Casey reas artist interview series electric objects. Casey reas taken by injection 20 available for sale. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The famed software designer provides an indepth look at his innovative. Aug 22, 2016 to further define the concept of software structures, i wrote and commissioned twentyfour implementations of these structures to isolate different aspects including interpretation, material, and process. Jan 19, 2019 im the ben fry half of the casey reas. Casey reas and ben fry champion the exciting power of programming for creatives in getting started with processing, a handson guide for making codebased drawings and interactive graphics.
If youre an artist looking to develop interactive graphics programs or a programmer on your way to becoming an artist. Casey reas solo exhibition theres no distance at bitforms. As of now, ive became used to the processing ide, in its lenguage, appearence and everything related to the writing of the code. To attempt to keep the project moving, we started the processing foundation as a legal notforprofit 501c3 organization. Reas software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the united states, europe, and asia. Display the instantaneous intersections of the circles. Processing community day 2019 processing foundation medium. The exhibition, which opens on 10 september from 68pm and runs until 16 october, is reas fifth solo show at bitforms since he joined the gallery in 2001. The untitled set of cprints 2019 that he described as akin to photographic. This site archives the work of casey reas from 2001present. Can we see a picture of your workspace andor desktop. Aug 08, 2004 microlmage microlmage reas, casey 20040808 00.
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing. Art and science in the age of software development. Created by casey reas in association with jared tarbell, robert hodgin, and william ngan. Architecture, art and science in the age of software development. Is the information associated with a parking spot enough to warrant writing a class for it this is a trick question of course you should. And probably wouldnt help you with something that is obviously homework. Casey reas is a professor in the department of design media arts at ucla and a graduate of the mit media laboratory. Casey reas, creative coding for art and design clot magazine.
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