About the Artists
Casey Reas’ work includes software, prints, and installations, and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations. He has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and his work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2001, he and Ben Fry initiated Processing, an open-source programming language and environment for the visual arts.
Jan St. Werner is a Berlin-based artist and composer best known as one half of the electronic duo Mouse on Mars. As part of Cologne’s A-Musik collective, St. Werner released recordings both as a solo artist and with collaborators, including Markus Popp and Rosa Barba. He released Blaze Colour Burn for The Fiepblatter Catalogue on Chicago’s Thrill Jockey Records. He was artistic director for Dutch Institute for Electronic Music STEIM. He is now professor for Interactive Art and Dynamic Acoustic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.
Other Work
Casey Reas
The Earthly Delights 1.0
Custom Software
2019
The Earthly Delights series is a collection of software works of indefinite duration that are created from a set of fixed frames performed by custom software. The software edits the frames into different sequences and presents them with changing speeds and rhythms. The frames are generated with machine learning software trained on scans of vegetation collected in Colorado. The title of these works is derived from Stan Brakhage’s short film The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) made from raw plant materials from the same region.
https://reas.com/earthly_1/
Jan St. Werner
Molecular Meditation
electronic music album
2020
Molecular Meditation is an experimental music album created by Jan St. Werner. Werner fuses the abstract electronic music with the spoken words of Mark E. Smith, the singer of the post-punk music group The Fall. Along with the synthesized sound environment created by Werner, the voice of Smith is through in the track as the main narrative element of this work. Generally, Smith is heard making observations on mundane objects, events and a range of meditation techniques basically associating his discontent with an apolitical British upper class.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jan-st-werner-molocular-meditation/
