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.
Works and the artist's own sites
DesLauriers' official site presents selected projects, biography, research, public talks, and open-source practice.
mattdesl.comThe official Meridian site documents its 15 KB program, token-hash coordinates, print logic, and archival structure.
MeridianThe studio shop biography describes DesLauriers' work across software, images, prints, installations, and websites.
About Matt DesLauriersThe studio's Subscapes page documents the 650-work release and its token-gated signed-print programme.
Subscapes printscanvas-sketch is DesLauriers' open-source framework for generative artwork in JavaScript and the browser.
canvas-sketchcanvas-sketch-util provides reusable modules for randomness, geometry, colour, shaders, and pen plotting.
canvas-sketch-utilVetro Editions' second-edition Meridian book reproduces all 1,000 works with essays, code, traits, and technical analysis.
Meridian bookResearch 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 MachineIn the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks' artist profile gathers DesLauriers' biography and two foundational projects.
Matt DesLauriers on Art BlocksSubscapes comprises 650 artificial surveys of procedurally generated ecosystems released in April 2021.
SubscapesMeridian comprises 1,000 stratified landforms released through Playground in September 2021.
MeridianJeff Davis interviews DesLauriers on early creative coding, open source, natural systems, and Subscapes.
In Conversation on SubscapesAn Art Blocks collector profile documents how Subscapes and Meridian were collected and compared as generative sets.
Collector Spotlight: ACMuseums 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 announcementThe 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 ArtThe National Film Board of Canada introduces Wayfinder, a procedurally assembled landscape and generative poetry game.
WayfinderMIT's arts programme records DesLauriers' participation in the Future Sketches symposium on creative-coding tools.
Future Sketches at MITBright Moments' artist archive identifies DesLauriers' Canadian origins, London base, and generative practice.
Bright Moments artistsGalleries and exhibitions
The FOLIO film documents DesLauriers' recursive typographic drawing system and its Bright Moments London exhibition.
FOLIOAvant Arte documents Sierra, a generative mountain translated into a fifteen-layer silkscreen and four CMYK NFTs.
SierraVetro's Tracing the Line places DesLauriers among one hundred contemporary artists using drawing machines and pen plotters.
Tracing the LineInterviews
Right Click Save's extended interview covers Meridian, Subscapes, natural systems, plotters, preservation, and artificial worlds.
The Interview: Matt DesLauriersHyperrhiz analyses DesLauriers' views on natural systems, blockchain decentralisation, textiles, and generative authorship.
Decentralizing CreativityLe Random interviews DesLauriers on the documentary Generative, Bitframes, AI, and historical narrative.
Matt DesLauriers on a Generative WorldPress and criticism
Curated's guide studies Meridian's 15 KB algorithm, traits, print history, exhibitions, and role in DesLauriers' practice.
Collecting the Algorithm: MeridianSonOfLasG 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)Use this research
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