HOLDUP Architecture & Art Direction. Initiated by Transsolar with AEDES Network Campus Berlin. T?F. COAL. Processing.org. C.E.B. Reas « Scriptedbypurpose. Process 6 (Image4 & 6) / 2005 C.E.B. Reas is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. Reas is an associate professor in the department of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. With Ben Fry, he is the co-founder of Processing.org, a programming language and environment for the visual arts. He’s the co-author of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, from MIT Press.
The most important element of Process [#] is the text. The English text leaves many decisions open to be determined by a programmer. The hardware running this software Process is inconsequential. TI installation in Telic gallery / 2004 Aggregate layers of abstraction remove every trace of systemic complexity, revealing a living surface. Reas’s software and images are derived from short text instructions explaining processes which define networks.
Process 4 / 2005 Process 16 Process 15. Architecture and design. TRANSIT-CITY / URBAN & MOBILE THINK TANK. AALU LANDSCAPE URBANISM. AA School Homepage. Landscape and Urbanism. Tomorrow's Thoughts Today. New-territories. French + English Version ‘From Radicalism to Idiotcracy, From Y.F. to P.S.’ At cross-purposes As multipurpose as a Swiss army knife, shunted back and forth every which way between art and architecture, he is at once an alibi, a foil, a spiritual father, a defeated ideologue whose scars are an atonement (the deafness, whether real or feigned – we’ll come back to it later) and rather handy… a paper architect, an ideologue, the kind of brand that keeps on giving, still legitimized by the French establishment, that funny alter cocker Yona Friedman® with the slight Slavic accent that makes you smile, whose foibles everyone forgives, since they’re so charming and “inoffensive.”
Yona Friedman® is perfectly adaptable… inflatable balloons to mimic the Spatial City,[1] floating cartons filed with salon-utopian political phraseology, pathetic and pathological. Has Friedman become, through no fault of his own, an icon for fakers, architects who reek of cheap – and lazy – political aesthetics? BLDGBLOG. LANDSCAPE URBANISM / CR. Landscape+Urbanism. Urban Omnibus.