Selected Essays / Statements
These essays are not yet completely online, they are missing the illustrations...
Process Compendium (ongoing...)
Text instructions for the Process works
Process / Drawing (2/2006)
Essay published in the Programming Cultures issue of Architectural Design (Wiley), 2007.
Who are the Progenitors of the Contemporary Synthesis of Software and Art? (1/2006)
"What is the precedent for your work?" This question was asked to 14 contemporary artists who work with software. This text was commissioned for Sonic Acts XI.
Beyond Code (3/2005)
Written for the "Distributed Form: Network Practices" conference at UC Berkeley organized by Anthony Burke and Therese Tierney. Published in Network Practices (Princeton Architectural Press), 2007.
Process / Drawing (3/2005)
Statement for solo exhibition at the bitforms gallery 4 March - 2 April 2005.
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Structures (6/2004)
Discusses software in relation to the Wall Drawings of Sol LeWitt. Prepared for the
Whitey Museum of American Art's Artport, commissioned by Christiane Paul.
1101 1110 1100 0000 1101 1110 (8/2003)
Essay for Creative Code (Thames & Hudson), ed. John Maeda.
MicroImage (6/2003)
Thoughts on the MicroImage software.
Tissue (5/2003)
Thoughts on the Tissue software and prints.
Programming Media (4/2003)
Written for the eponymous lecture originally given at Ars Electronica 2003. Published in Code: The Language of
our Time (Hatje Cantz).
Selected Interviews
Organic and Conceptual Systems
Unedited interview with Bert Balcaen for Sonic Acts X, Amsterdam.
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2 - Lær at Programmere (6/2004)
Harddisken Interview with Thomas Birch and Thomas Makussen (In Danish with
some English)
Interview with Casey Reas (6/2004)
Unedited interview with Tori Tan for XFUNS magazine, Taiwan
» Code.
In Conversation with Casey Reas (10/2003)
Interview with Sebastian Campion for Artificial.dk
» Sculture
Immateriali (12/2001)
Interview with Federica Martini for Exibart.com (In Italian)
Selected Books / Publications
Visual works and/or texts by C.E.B. Reas are included in the following
printed publications...
Design Life Now, National Design Triennial 2006
By Barbara Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid
Available from »Cooper-Hewitt Shop
Programming Cultures: Architecture, Art and Science in the Age of Software Development
Edited by Mike Silver
Available from »Wiley
Creative Code
Edited by John Maeda
Available from »Thames
& Hudson
Unsorted - Thoughts on the Information Arts. An A-Z for Sonic Acts X
Edited by Arie Altena
Available from »Sonic
Acts
Abstraction Now
Edited by Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Sandro Droschl
Available from »Künstlerhaus
Wein
read_me. Software Art and Cultures, 2004
Edited by Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin
Available from »Neural.it
and »Aarhus
University Press
Code: The Language of Our Time
Available from »Hatje
Cantz
AREA
Available from »PHAIDON
ÜBERSEE #2
Available from »Die
Gestalten Verlag
ROJO.cold, ROJO.nu
Available from »ROJO