Casey Reas

Professor, UCLA Design Media Arts

For more information: http://reas.com, http://processing.org

Courses

2011
Fall: Interactivity (28)
Fall: Interactive Media 1 (252a)
Spring: Grad Studio (402)
Spring: Interactivity (28)
Winter: Interactive Media 1 (152a)

2010
Spring: Grad Studio (402)
Winter: Interactive Media 1 (152a)
Winter: Interactivity (28)

2009
Fall: Interactive Media 1 (252a)
Fall: Interactivity (28)
Spring: Network Media 1 (161a)
Winter: Programming Media 1 (152a)

2008
Fall: Interactivity (28)
Spring: Programming Media 2 (152b)
Winter: Programming Media 1 (152a)

2007
Fall: Programming Media 1 (252a)
Spring: Interactivity (28)
Winter: Interactive Environments (256)
Winter: Grad Studio (402)

2006
Fall: Interactivity (28) / Gallery
Fall: Programming Media 1 (152a, 252a)
Spring: Programming Media (152a, 252a)
Winter: Interactive Environments (256)
Winter: Introduction to Interactivity (28)

2005
Fall: Grad Studio (402)
Fall: Introduction to Interactivity (28)
Spring: Grad Studio (402)
Spring: Programming Media (152b)
Winter: Interactive Environments (256)

2004
Fall: Introduction to Interactivity (28) / Gallery
Fall: Dynamic Typography (155)
Spring: Programming Media (160)
Spring: Creative Web (161a)
Winter: Interactive Environments (256)
Winter: Dynamic Web (161b)

2003
Fall: Design for Interactive Media (157a)


Graduate Advising

2011-2012
Thesis advisor for Eric Parren
Thesis committee for Mark Essen, David Leonard, Gabriel Noguez, Rhazes Spell
Advisor for Nicholas Hanna, Richard Wheeler

2010-2011
Thesis advisor for Lauren McCarthy, Kevin Haywood
Thesis committee for David Wicks, Mattia Casalegno, Jonathan Cecil, Diego Gomez, Pete Hawkes
Advisor for Eric Parren, Noa P. Kaplan, Minkyung Choi

2009-2010
Thesis advisor for Yoon Chung Han
Thesis committee for Christo Allegra
Advisor for David Wicks, Lauren McCarthy, Jonathan Cecil

2008-2009
Thesis advisor for Michael Kontopoulos
Thesis committee for David Elliot, Nova Jiang, Andres Colubri
Advisor for Christo Allegra, Gautam Rangan

2007-2008
Thesis advisor for Yunsil Heo
Thesis committee for Aaron Siegel, Jihyun Kim, Pinar Yoldas, Gil Kuno
Advisor for David Elliot

2006-2007
Thesis advisor for John Houck, Tyler Adams, Rajorshi Ghosh
Thesis committee for Sue Huang, Gil Kuno, Pascual Sisto
Advisor for Aaron Siegel, Yunsil Heo

2005-2006
Thesis advisor for Tatsuya Saito, Aaron Koblin, Krister Olsson
Advisor for John Houck, Rajorshi Ghosh

2004-2005
Thesis advisor for Andrew Heironymi, Zai Chang
Advisor for Gil Kuno, Tatsuya Saito, Takashi Kawashima (Spring)

2003-2004
Thesis committee for Lucas Kuzma

Projects

Processing
Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as an electronic sketchbook. Processing was co-initiated by myself and Ben Fry. Processing is free and available to download.

Writing

Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture
Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and LUST
September 2010, Princeton Architectural Press. 176 pages. Paperback.

Getting Started with Processing
Casey Reas and Ben Fry
June 2010, O'Reilly Media / Make. 208 pages. Paperback.

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
Casey Reas and Ben Fry (Foreword by John Maeda).
August 2007, MIT Press. 736 pages. Hardcover.

A more complete list of text by C.E.B. Reas is available at REAS.com.

Links

UCLA DMA
REAS.com

Contact

UCLA Design Media Arts
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Dr.
Suite 2275
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456

Phone: +1 310 382 6007
Email: reas at ucla dot edu