"Stochastic Confabulation" Art Exhibit by visiting Artist Casey REAS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2017
Cal Poly University Art Gallery to Exhibit Casey Reas 11/2/17 – 12/1/17
Artist lecture and gallery opening reception set for Nov 2 at 5pm
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s University Art Gallery will present “Stochastic Confabulation” featuring several of the more recent video projections created by artist Casey Reas, to run Nov. 2 through Dec. 1.
This exhibition will feature three immersive projections which are composed by using “processing,” which is the language of coding that Reas is known for helping to create. Visitors will be invited to sit within the gallery and view the projections individually and as a whole. The sound from each projection will overlap and the viewers are invited to adjust the mixer themselves in order to fine tune their experience.
"Casey Reas is a pioneer in the area of digital fine art and computer programing. His investigations of critical data as visualization and developing visual form are an inspiration to art practitioners, designers and programmers working with interdisciplinary new media around the world. We are honored to have him exhibit his work and speak at Cal Poly."- James Werner, Assistant Professor of Media Arts
About the Artist
The exhibit will open with a talk by Reas at 5 p.m. Thursday Nov. 2 in the Berg Gallery on the ground floor of Architecture and Environmental Design (Bldg. 5) on campus. A reception will follow at 6p.m. in the gallery, located on the ground floor of the Dexter Building (No. 34).
Casey REAS (a k a Casey Edwin Barker Reas, C. E. B. Reas)
Born 1972 in Troy, Ohio. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
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. Recent venues include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent commissions have been awarded by the New World Symphony in Miami and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Reas' work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences as well as a bachelor’s degree from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for the visual arts.