Casey Reas is an artist and educator exploring abstract kinetic systems through diverse digital media including software, animation, and prints. With Ben Fry he is developing Processing, a platform for learning fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts. Reas has exhibited and lectured in Europe, Asia, and the United States and his work has recently been shown at Ars Electronica (Linz), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), MoMa (New York), P.S.1 (Queens), and the Bitforms gallery (New York). Reas received his MS degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT where he was a member of the Aesthetics and Computation Group.