Casey REAS

@REAS · Los Angeles · joined 25 Nov 2008

Artist and co-director of Social Software. Professor and Chair, UCLA DMA. Co-founder of Feral File, Processing Foundation, and Processing.

37 123Followers

2 700Following

4 338Posts total

19.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views1 210this account949median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.26%this account3.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.22%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 210	949	1.27×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.26%	3.23%	1.01×
Engagement rate	3.22%	2.00%	1.61×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

5.4K10 Aug

431

632

3911 Aug

1.8K13 Aug

3.5K25 Aug

4K26 Aug

3.2K28 Aug

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.06%10 Aug

3.02%

3.16%

7.69%11 Aug

2.80%13 Aug

3.78%25 Aug

3.28%26 Aug

1.18%

2.94%

3.97%28 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes79.8%595 in total

Reposts8.0%60 in total

Replies5.6%42 in total

Quotes0.3%2 in total

Bookmarks6.3%47 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

My online exhibition at HEK is open! Join us now for a live walkthrough and Q&A with curator Sabine Himmelsbach and me: https://t.co/qacxKgEWK3 3.2K views · 106 likes · 14 reposts · 4 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@REAS @csrsnt 🤍🫂 68 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@REAS @csrsnt context: https://t.co/Lz7OXk3Clm 85 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

.@csrsnt and I were there for Hic et Nunc, Versum, and fxhash, along with so many of you, and we’ll always be grateful to everyone who built, collected, and created 4K views · 118 likes · 4 reposts · 10 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Sketching something new from something old… evolving every Friday for the next two months with live online sessions starting this week at 9am PDT 🔗https://t.co/E2ygQhumtE https://t.co/uPVVMtH0ol 3.5K views · 116 likes · 12 reposts · 4 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

REAS #002 — 13 August 2026 The Substack experiment continues... 🪞 Exhibitions at HEK and the Whitney 💾 Computational Art degree at UCLA https://t.co/D0j0dDGMvZ 1.8K views · 46 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 13 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@REAS I love HEK's programming. 39 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 11 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Every Friday, I’ll make a small watercolor painting and then translate it into a score for my software agents to move through a synthetic environment. This work is an extension of my Process Series 2004–2010, pushing my ideas about ecology and emergence into new territory. 632 views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 10 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

«Life is not binary. That’s why I’m hesitant to call this ‹alive›. There’s no clear line, as much as we would love it to be.» — Kate Adamala, Synthetic Biologist 431 views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 10 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Please join us! My new online exhibition Omnia Ex Natura: In Situ opens August 28th at https://t.co/E2ygQhumtE For three months, I will inhabit https://t.co/3vyEQZXQt3 as a remote studio, creating a new sketch for an artwork each week. https://t.co/uly8y5jqmE 5.4K views · 173 likes · 27 reposts · 20 replies 10 Aug 2026 · Open on X →