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Matt DesLauriers: links

A source ledger for the artist and creative coder whose artificial terrains join natural systems, plotter marks, blockchain archives, print, and open-source infrastructure.

26 sources · last updated 2 September 2026

Works and the artist's own sites

DesLauriers' official site presents selected projects, biography, research, public talks, and open-source practice.

mattdesl.com artist site

The official Meridian site documents its 15 KB program, token-hash coordinates, print logic, and archival structure.

Meridian artist project · 2021

The studio shop biography describes DesLauriers' work across software, images, prints, installations, and websites.

About Matt DesLauriers artist biography

The studio's Subscapes page documents the 650-work release and its token-gated signed-print programme.

Subscapes prints artist documentation · 2021

canvas-sketch is DesLauriers' open-source framework for generative artwork in JavaScript and the browser.

canvas-sketch open-source tool

canvas-sketch-util provides reusable modules for randomness, geometry, colour, shaders, and pen plotting.

canvas-sketch-util open-source library

Vetro Editions' second-edition Meridian book reproduces all 1,000 works with essays, code, traits, and technical analysis.

Meridian book monograph · 2023

Research and publications

DesLauriers' ACM pictorial presents Synthetic Gestures, a locally run, gradient-free evolutionary system for turning text prompts into expressive mechanical-plotter drawings.

Synthetic Gestures: An Evolutionary Sketching Machine ACM Creativity and Cognition · 2026

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks' artist profile gathers DesLauriers' biography and two foundational projects.

Matt DesLauriers on Art Blocks artist profile

Subscapes comprises 650 artificial surveys of procedurally generated ecosystems released in April 2021.

Subscapes collection · 2021

Meridian comprises 1,000 stratified landforms released through Playground in September 2021.

Meridian collection · 2021

Jeff Davis interviews DesLauriers on early creative coding, open source, natural systems, and Subscapes.

In Conversation on Subscapes interview · 2021

An Art Blocks collector profile documents how Subscapes and Meridian were collected and compared as generative sets.

Collector Spotlight: AC collector interview · 2023

Museums and institutions

DesLauriers announced that the V&A acquired Meridian #686 and #870 for its permanent collection, with a framed print of #870 planned for Degrees of Disruption.

V&A acquisition announcement artist post · 2026

The V&A's official display record presents Degrees of Disruption as an account of Vera Molnar's influence across more than fifty historical and contemporary works.

Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art museum display · 2026

The National Film Board of Canada introduces Wayfinder, a procedurally assembled landscape and generative poetry game.

Wayfinder institutional project · 2021

MIT's arts programme records DesLauriers' participation in the Future Sketches symposium on creative-coding tools.

Future Sketches at MIT institutional programme · 2021 · PDF

Bright Moments' artist archive identifies DesLauriers' Canadian origins, London base, and generative practice.

Bright Moments artists institutional archive

Galleries and exhibitions

The FOLIO film documents DesLauriers' recursive typographic drawing system and its Bright Moments London exhibition.

FOLIO project film · 2022

Avant Arte documents Sierra, a generative mountain translated into a fifteen-layer silkscreen and four CMYK NFTs.

Sierra physical edition · 2024

Vetro's Tracing the Line places DesLauriers among one hundred contemporary artists using drawing machines and pen plotters.

Tracing the Line publication and exhibition context

Interviews

Right Click Save's extended interview covers Meridian, Subscapes, natural systems, plotters, preservation, and artificial worlds.

The Interview: Matt DesLauriers interview · 2024

Hyperrhiz analyses DesLauriers' views on natural systems, blockchain decentralisation, textiles, and generative authorship.

Decentralizing Creativity scholarly interview · 2025

Le Random interviews DesLauriers on the documentary Generative, Bitframes, AI, and historical narrative.

Matt DesLauriers on a Generative World interview · 2024

Press and criticism

Curated's guide studies Meridian's 15 KB algorithm, traits, print history, exhibitions, and role in DesLauriers' practice.

Collecting the Algorithm: Meridian collector guide · 2024

SonOfLasG reads the Bicycle drawing from Latent Dispatch: Studies as a pre-entanglement artefact, connecting a collector's cycling history to the system's evolving model of machine perception.

Collector's Statement: Latent Dispatch Studies (Bicycle) collector essay · 2025, updated 2026

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