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Opening: 10th September, 7-9pm
The artist will be present at the opening.
Exhibition: 11th September - 3rd October 2010
[DAM]Berlin is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of the American artist C.E.B. Reas who is one of the leading figures in the field of software art. The new exhibition brings the software series "Process" which Reas has followed from 2004-2010 to an end with a series of pictures. This reflects on seven years of research and artistic work. Furthermore new software pieces are shown that have not been exhibited in Berlin before.
For Reas (b. 1972) software is not a tool for reworking data such as a digital photo, but the wriiting of the concept in text and code is the core of the artwork....
"During the last seven years, I have continuously refined the system of Forms, Behaviors, Elements, and Processes. The phenomenon of emergence is the core of the exploration and each artwork builds on previous works and informs the next. The system is idiosyncratic and pseudoscientific, containing references ranging from the history of mathematics to the generation of artificial life."
C.E.B. Reas from the catalogue "Process Compendium 2004-2010"
For their open source software Processing that is meanwhile taught at numerous art academies Reas was awarded in 2005 together with Ben Fry the Golden Nica of Ars Electronica. His works have been shown internationally, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Institute for Contemporary Art (London), New Museum for Contemporary Art (New York), NTT ICC (Tokyo), Künstlerhaus Wien, LAboral Gijon, ZKM (Karlsruhe), Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, Telic (Los Angeles), BANK (Los Angeles), Eyebeam (New York), CCCB (Barcelona), STUK (Leuven), National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo), amongst others.
