Collaborative exhibition by Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner on view at bitforms gallery
Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner, Untitled 2 (Kiss me.), 2020. Video (color, sound, screen or projector, speakers, media player. Dimensions variable, landscape orientation, 4 min 19 sec, loop. Edition of 3, 1 AP. Courtesy bitforms gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY
.-bitforms gallery introduces Alchemical, a collaborative exhibition by Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner. Alchemical presents the artists suite of videos alongside a selection of prints by Casey Reas. The online component of this exhibition is presented in collaboration with New Art City.
Untitled Film Stills are a series of prints that trace Reas exploration of generative adversarial networks (GAN) as image-making instruments. This empirical procedure more closely resembles alchemy than the artists usual practice of software art. Reas and technical lead Hye Min Cho trained GANs with specific films selected for their visual and emotional environments. The artist extracted impressions from consequent material, thereby positioning GANs as an apparatus of his visual language. Untitled Film Stills are selections from the unique and labored procedure of modeling, generating, and editing.