LO 2: Casey Reas

I found this piece of generative art by Casey Reas, Untitled 5 to be rather inspirational. On a lesser point, the
presentation of this work is fantastic. It goes to show that the art itself is everything: the context in which you
view it (the appearance of the website is rather bare and calls back to older internet aesthetics), the title
(or in this case, the lack of one is unsettling), and the music that is shown with the work of art (the music is similarly
unpredictable).
I suppose that this work was generated by finding an average of domestic images and messing with the generation
of the average in order to distort the images.
Given that the piece’s emphasis is meant to be unsettling, the randomization of the distortions, with their
unpredictability, further adds to the creepiness of the work, making it a wonderful case study on as to how
generative art can make a work more potent. Some may be under the impression that generative art is
interesting, but not an entirely viable form of creating art when all art could be created entirely within the
autonomy of the artist, though the unpredictability of this work is aided by its generative nature.

Reas.com Is a Database for Casey Reas, http://reas.com/untitled_5/.