I attended the first day of the Flourish! Conference. There were a couple speakers but the presentation that Ruth Suehle was the most interesting and informative to me. Ruth Suehle works for Red Hat, which is an “open source” company. Open sourcing is a philosophy that promotes the free redistribution and access to an end…

We have all our materials including the dc motor pump, plastic tubing, and tip120 resistor. However, we havent got our circuit to work because there has been some confusion as to where to connect the 5v pin to. We are still working on making our pump work and after that is accomplished we can work…

Ruth Suehle’s presentation (“How ‘Open Source’ Defines a Culture”) explored how “open source” applies to topics such as transparency in government, accessible education, data sharing, and copyright law. Although the term originated with software, the concept more generally refers to sharing information and innovations for other people to adapt and improve. Suehle described this concept…

    My drawing machine consists of a remote controlled car, a constructed wooden holder for two markers, and a potentiometer switch. By soldering connections to the switches on the back of the chip in the remote control, I was able to program movements for the car. I had some issues in the beginning because…

            Though his work Casey Rea’s has explored the idea of letting go of order and structure with the use of “organic algorithms” and pushes the effect of randomness.  He touches on the fact that the early artist society and they’re work came from a time where art was strict and…

Hey everyone! I was checking into that book Casey Reas collaborated on, and I found a complete eBook of it on an MIT webpage. Just thought I’d share. 🙂 http://trope-tank.mit.edu/10_PRINT_121114.pdf Best, Brian VK

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Casey Reas begins his talk by stating that it has always been an artist’s job to maintain order. Artists are the ones who have created order and organization and provided people with an image that allows others to visuals abstract ideas. Reas then introduces the concept of bringing chaos into…

After watching the video all i can think is about how the guy has code that does random things and yet all i can think about is how this can be validated at all. If my family saw this my brother and father would both say that Casey Rea should be applying this technology for…

In his presentation Chance Operations, Casey Reas, delves into the new media art of software-generated artwork. As someone relatively unfamiliar with the field of artistic work I found his presentation to be not only informative but very enlightening. Throughout the presentation he established the history and progression of his artwork, also incorporating the work of…

Casey Reas, in his presentation, speaks about order and chaos which is reflected in much of his artwork. His art is taking chaotic elements and implying an order to create his art. These chaotic elements come from organic pieces such as human vision and spreading cancer cells to less organic chaos like television signals and…

In his talk, Casey Reas talks about the motivations and thought processes behind his work, particularly his generative art. Although he works with new media, he also references artists like Mondrian and Duchamp; his themes of chance vs. order draw on a history of playing with structure in modern art. Reas is interested in how…

Response to Reas Influenced by the Dada and Fluxus movements Casey Reas explores the role of order and chance through computer software to create art. Unlike other artists investigating “the system”, Reas is interested in breaking apart the notions of why the system exists and how the viewer responds to changes within that system. In…