Looking Outward-10

https://reas.com/knbc/

For this LO, I chose to look at artist Casey Reas. Casey is the co-founder of Processing which is the grandfather to p5.js. I was really interested in seeing how the person who created Processing created art using a tool that they had imagined and built. The Sound Art piece I looked at is called KNBC. It was created in December 2015 using footage from news broadcasts from the year. This footage was manipulated in Processing to create a collage of pixels. What I love about this piece is how a video broadcast which was meant to tell a specific story was broken down by Casey into these collages and then combined with music to tell a whole new story. I also love that even though there is no clear clear picture or words, I still feel like I can understand the story that each scene is telling. Throughout the video of the piece playing, the transitions of music and color show you different parts of the story and you can tell when a scene has ended and another has begun.