Sofia Syjuco – Looking Outwards-02

MicroImage B Prints
Casey Reas

Casey Reas’s MicroImage series encompasses a very interesting set of prints (and some videos) of generative art. Reas himself developed the software used to create these pieces of art (pictured above, prints from the “B” group within this series). I very much admire the formal qualities of these non-representational pieces that he programmed, because they speak to a high level of understanding both art and technology – Reas is so skilled as to be able to naturally channel one medium into another, and create a work that is stunning in both forms.

Reas used the MicroImage software to develop this project, using Processing – an open-source language that he and Ben Fry created together with the intention of opening up programming to artists. The creator’s artistic sensibilities manifest in the aesthetic of all works produced through this software, a strange mid-ground between fractal and organic.