Gallery: Why Use a Paintbrush When You Can Make Mind-Bending Art With Code?
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[KNBC](http://reas.com/knbc/) is an audio and visual distortion of television signals broadcast during December 2015 over the 602-608 MHz spread of the electromagnetic spectrum from a tower located at 34°13′32″N, 118°3′52″W.
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[Control Room](http://reas.com/control_room/) presents a matrix of twenty images. The construction is related to the history of collage; television signals are used as original source material to amplify the experience of contemporary mass media.
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[Tox Screen](http://reas.com/tox_screen/) is a wall-sized diptych of video projections that explores the behavior of television signals and entropy. Television content was captured through an antenna then processed with custom software.
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[Textile Room](http://reas.com/textile_room/) is a collaboration between Casey Reas, the architecture studio P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, and North Sails' Flexible Composites division. The project, a crystal-shaped, quasi-rigid object that physically and experientially blurs the threshold between hard and soft, textile and tectonic, intimate and public, illuminates the possibilities of extreme lightweight materials in architecture.
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The [Process Compendium](http://reas.com/compendium_a_p/) 2004-2010 consists of two sets of fifteen prints that document Process 4 to Process 18 and one index print that includes the complete Process Compendium text. For each set, a single static image was selected from an infinite field of variations. This still was selected from Process 13.
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