Terse Biography
C.E.B. REAS (b. 1972 in Troy, OH) lives and works in Los Angeles. He focuses on defining processes and translating them
into images. He is an associate professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
REAS has exhibited his work internationally at institutions including Laboral
(Gijon, Spain), The Cooper-Hewitt Museum (New York), and the
National Museum for Art, Architecture, and Design (Oslo), at independent
venues including Telic Arts Exchange (Los Angeles), <>TAG (The Hague), and Ego Park
(Oakland), at galleries including Bitforms (New York), BANK (Los Angeles),
and [DAM] Berlin, and at festivals including Sonar (Barcelona), Ars Electronica (Linz),
and Microwave (Hong Kong). He has lectured at institutions including University of Applied Arts Vienna,
The Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), and the NTT ICC (Tokyo), and at artist-run
spaces including Machine Project (Los Angeles) and Atelier Nord (Oslo).
With Ben Fry, REAS initiated Processing.org in 2001.
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and
interaction. In September 2007, they published Processing: A Programming Handbook
for Visual Designers and Artists, a 736 page comprehensive introduction to programming within the
context of visual media (MIT Press).
His essays have appeared in the books Network Practices (Princeton Architectural Press),
Aesthetic Computing (MIT Press), Code: The Language of Our Time (Hatje Cantz), and the
Programming Cultures issue of Architectural Design (Wiley).
Curriculum Vitae
A CV is forthcoming.