STILL LIFE

Casey Reas

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Randomic Dimension
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Still Life – United States

The Still Life software works (2015–2023) transpose the still-life tradition in painting into a generative, computational register. Each of the ten works generates a kinetic still life composed of one type of Platonic solid—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, or icosahedron—realized in both RGB and HSB color systems. Long regarded as elemental structures of matter, these logical and essential forms link antiquity’s metaphysical geometry to the pragmatic origins of computer graphics.

BIO

Casey Reas is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. His work spans software, prints, drawings, and installations that explore the relationship between computational systems and contemporary visual culture. Reas co-founded Processing (2001), the Processing Foundation (2012), and Feral File (2020). He is a professor in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.