Alfred Presents · Artist Showcase CENTURY (Art Blocks, 2021) — CASEY REAS

CASEY REAS

Casey Reas · generative, code, software art · Ethereum · x.com/REAS

“CENTURY is my homage to paintings and drawings from the twentieth century and the countless hours I've spent looking at them.”

— Casey Reas, CENTURY project description, Art Blocks

The strongest direct reference is a series of pictures created by Ellsworth Kelly in the 1950s where he cut his paintings into pieces and reassembled them in different orders.

— CENTURY project description, Art Blocks
CENTURY, works
1,000
On-chain since
2021
Art Blocks
Curatedseries 3
The work count and the series were read from the collection itself on 14 August 2026. No floor, volume or sales figure is shown: the stats endpoint answered 429 throughout this build, and an estimate is not a measurement. The collections added on 6 September 2026 each carry their own work count, read from OpenSea that day; the market figures above belong to the collection they name and to no other.
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The work · 2021 – 2026

One collection, and a century of painting behind it

2021CENTURY
The homage

CENTURY

“These are landscapes; they look best large and in motion running as live code.”

— Casey Reas, CENTURY project description, Art Blocks
1,000 works
OpenSea
2021Phototaxis by Casey REAS

Phototaxis by Casey REAS

999 works
OpenSea
2022Pre-Process by Casey REAS

Pre-Process by Casey REAS

120 works
OpenSea
2023923 EMPTY ROOMS by Casey REAS

923 EMPTY ROOMS by Casey REAS

924 works
OpenSea
2022CENTURY 2052 by Casey REAS

CENTURY 2052 by Casey REAS

50 works
OpenSea
2026Ex Nihilo (Cosmos) by Casey REAS

Ex Nihilo (Cosmos) by Casey REAS

256 works
OpenSea

He co-wrote the language a large part of this art is written in. Then he used it to talk about Ellsworth Kelly — not about the algorithm.

In his words

Where the picture comes from, and how to hold it

The references span the origins of concrete and non-objective art to color-field painting and minimalism.

CENTURY project description, Art Blocks

CENTURY creates a distinct picture for each unique transaction hash, and you can “cut” and “reassemble” it in different ways by pressing ‘1’ on your keyboard.

CENTURY project description, Art Blocks

One artist on this page. 46 collections in the median wallet we look at.

Every figure above comes from Alfred’s own dataset — sales, volume and owners read off the chain, floors from the marketplaces. On a wallet he goes one step further, to the number that gets buried under a decade of transfers: what you actually paid.

In the wallets we look at, nearly half of what people hold has no purchase price to look up. It arrived as a mint, a swap or a transfer.

Alfred follows each one back through the chain.

Both figures come from one reading: 16 wallets, 3,548 items, Sep 2026.

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