Casey Reas, has been a professor with the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts since 2003. Casey’s work spans software, installations, prints, and drawings to explore the relationship between computational systems and contemporary visual culture. Engaging with the history of conceptual art, drawing, and photography, Casey creates generative systems that unfold over time. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. It has also appeared in major group exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Alongside his studio practice, Casey is deeply engaged in expanding the ecosystem for software-based art. In 2001, he co-founded Processing, the open-source programming language and environment that has widely expanded creative coding for artists and designers, and the Processing Foundation (2012), which supports visual literacy and access to creative tools worldwide. In 2020, he co-founded Feral File, an online platform for exhibiting and collecting digital art.

He is the author of several books including Compressed Cinema (2023) and Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks (2019), both published by Anteism. Alongside Professor Lauren Lee McCarthy, he is also co-director of UCLA Social Software, a lab that creates art that explores the role of software in culture.

Casey holds a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Bachelor of Science from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.