Erin Fuller – Looking Outwards 02

Casey Reas is an American digital artist who uses programming to create artwork that is conceptual, procedural and minimal. The piece I am talking about “KNBC”, done in late 2015, is a continuously generated collage that distorts audio and video television signals. He used a tower located at his artist’s studio in Los Angeles to collect electromagnetic wave frequencies between 602-608 MHz. The signals are collected and used as variables and are output into a “stochastic” audiovisual stream, meaning the visuals have random probability distribution or pattern that might be able to be analyzed statistically not be precisely predicted.

I find this kind of work beautiful because there is a sense of logic underlying it. A lot of why people do not like modern art is because they think it is “random” or “meaningless”, and I appreciate how this new medium of generative art has something lying underneath it that the viewer may not see or understand, but it is there.