{"id":14968,"date":"2021-10-14T23:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/?p=14968"},"modified":"2021-10-31T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T16:48:21","slug":"reas-feral-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/reas-feral-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Reas on code as a creative medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”13545″ img_size=”full” full_width=”1″ hover_effect=”opacity” opacity=”100″][vc_custom_heading text=”About Casey Reas” font_size=”22″ font_weight=”700″][vc_column_text]Casey Reas is one the leading artists creating software-based, generative artworks nowadays. He is the co-creator, with Ben Fry, of the programming language Processing (2001) and has authored many books on creative coding.[\/vc_column_text][vc_button button_type=”kayo-button-primary” title=”see profile” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-chevron-right” font_weight=”700″ button_block=”true” add_icon=”true” el_class=”Downloadpdf” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdam.org%2Fmuseum%2Fartists_ui%2Fartists%2Freas-casey%2F|title:Casey%20Reas||”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_single_image image=”14969″ img_size=”full” full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Casey Reas on code as a creative medium<\/h3>\n

Casey Reas is interviewed by Willa K\u00f6erner about his exhibition Social Codes on Feral File<\/p>\n

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The launch of Feral File<\/strong><\/a>, the online platform for exhibiting, selling and collecting digital art took place in March 2021 with a group show curated by its founder, the artist Casey Reas.<\/main>
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Reas discussed with Willa K\u00f6erner the concept behind the exhibition, which addresses the possibilities of creative coding. The artist underscores the fact that current software-based practices stem from the work of pioneers such as Vera Molnar<\/a>, who began working with computers in the mid-1960s:<\/main><\/article>\n

\u201cArtists have been working with code since the mid-1960s; it\u2019s not something that\u2019s new to this moment. As one example, Vera Moln\u00e1r is a nearly 100-year-old artist working in drawing and concrete visual systems who began to code well into her career as a way of enhancing her work in the studio, since it allowed her to explore more ideas quickly. [\u2026]\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also comments on the importance of software in today’s creative practices, and how it can be used by artists not only as a tool, but as a medium in itself:<\/p>\n

\u201cSoftware has eaten the world, but there are two different ways of thinking about it. In one way, artists are using software as a replacement for analog media. These artists are using a photo editing program instead of being in the darkroom, or using a vector editing program instead of sitting at the drafting board. That\u2019s using software as a tool.<\/p>\n

An important difference for the artists exhibiting work in Social Codes is that they\u2019re all utilizing software as a creative medium. They\u2019re doing things with software that could not be done in any other media, and they\u2019re utilizing its ability to change as a way to choreograph time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reas stresses the importance of websites as spaces in which to showcase an artist’s work, comparing artist’s website to books or catalogues, and even more than just documentation of a physical exhibition, as a medium in itself. As most creators have stopped developing their own online spaces to distribute their work through social media, Reas points out that platforms such as Feral File create a specific space to view artworks in the context of a curated show:<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have grown accustomed to posting their work to these very bland commercial spaces like Instagram, for example. But those platforms create such a constrained environment for expression and for viewing work. Everything\u2019s sort of the same size in an endless scroll, all jumbled together. While Feral File is not a response to Instagram, it is a place for artists to show their work in an intentional way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full interview on Feral File<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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