Casey Reas’ Process series explores the relevance of instruction-based conceptual art to the idea of software as art. Reas creates text descriptions outlining dynamic relations between elements and then implements them as software.

Process 4 (Software 1): A rectangular surface filled with varying sizes of Element 1. Draw a line from the centres of two elements when they are touching. Set the value of the shortest line to black and the longest to white, with varying grays between. Process 4 (Image 2): Inkjet print derived from the Process 4 software. Seoul B: Semi-automatic ’drawing machines’.

Participants draw automated software elements onto a screen with their fingers. These elements continue to interact with each other, creating additional patterns within the drawing. Casey Reas is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. His work focuses on defining processes and then translating them into images. He is an associate professor in the department of Design | Media Arts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).