Hosted by Dyhandra Lawson, curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), artists Tyler Hobbs and Casey Reas discuss their artistic process and the directions in which both artists are leading the development of generative art.

Two of Tyler Hobbs' artworks have recently been acquired by LACMA, as part of an innovative slate of acquisitions for both institutions, considering the intersection of human and machine intelligence and the transformative potential of art and technology.

Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist from Austin, Texas, working with algorithms, plotters, and paint. Unit presented his debut UK solo show Mechanical Hand in 2023, focussing on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. By taking a
generative approach to art making, his work explores the possibilities of creation at scale and the powers of emergence.

Casey Reas is an American artist and educator based in Los Angeles, whose solo exhibition Wet and Saturated Process was hosted at Unit earlier this year. He works through the contemporary lens of software, spanning small works on paper and urban-scale installations. In 2001, he co-founded Processing, an open-source programming language and environment for the visual arts. He also co-created Feral File, an online platform for exhibiting and collecting digital art. Reas is currently a Professor of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles where he also co-directs Social Software, an initiative focused on examining the social impacts and possibilities of making with software.

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