Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018

Whitney Museum of American Art, Sep 28, 2018–Apr 14, 2019

Professor Casey Reas' work Software Structures is featured in "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition establishes connections between works of art based on instructions, spanning over fifty years of conceptual, video, and computational art. The pieces in the exhibition are all “programmed” using instructions, sets of rules, and code, but they also address the use of programming in their creation. The exhibition links two strands of artistic exploration: the first examines the program as instructions, rules, and algorithms with a focus on conceptual art practices and their emphasis on ideas as the driving force behind the art; the second strand engages with the use of instructions and algorithms to manipulate the TV program, its apparatus, and signals or image sequences.