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.com ↗The official Meridian site documents its 15 KB program, token-hash coordinates, print logic, and archival structure.
Meridian ↗The studio shop biography describes DesLauriers' work across software, images, prints, installations, and websites.
About Matt DesLauriers ↗The studio's Subscapes page documents the 650-work release and its token-gated signed-print programme.
Subscapes prints ↗canvas-sketch is DesLauriers' open-source framework for generative artwork in JavaScript and the browser.
canvas-sketch ↗canvas-sketch-util provides reusable modules for randomness, geometry, colour, shaders, and pen plotting.
canvas-sketch-util ↗Vetro Editions' second-edition Meridian book reproduces all 1,000 works with essays, code, traits, and technical analysis.
Meridian book ↗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 ↗In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks' artist profile gathers DesLauriers' biography and two foundational projects.
Matt DesLauriers on Art Blocks ↗Subscapes comprises 650 artificial surveys of procedurally generated ecosystems released in April 2021.
Subscapes ↗Meridian comprises 1,000 stratified landforms released through Playground in September 2021.
Meridian ↗Jeff Davis interviews DesLauriers on early creative coding, open source, natural systems, and Subscapes.
In Conversation on Subscapes ↗An Art Blocks collector profile documents how Subscapes and Meridian were collected and compared as generative sets.
Collector Spotlight: AC ↗Museums and institutions
The National Film Board of Canada introduces Wayfinder, a procedurally assembled landscape and generative poetry game.
Wayfinder ↗MIT's arts programme records DesLauriers' participation in the Future Sketches symposium on creative-coding tools.
Future Sketches at MIT ↗Bright Moments' artist archive identifies DesLauriers' Canadian origins, London base, and generative practice.
Bright Moments artists ↗Galleries and exhibitions
The FOLIO film documents DesLauriers' recursive typographic drawing system and its Bright Moments London exhibition.
FOLIO ↗Avant Arte documents Sierra, a generative mountain translated into a fifteen-layer silkscreen and four CMYK NFTs.
Sierra ↗Vetro's Tracing the Line places DesLauriers among one hundred contemporary artists using drawing machines and pen plotters.
Tracing the Line ↗Interviews
Right Click Save's extended interview covers Meridian, Subscapes, natural systems, plotters, preservation, and artificial worlds.
The Interview: Matt DesLauriers ↗Hyperrhiz analyses DesLauriers' views on natural systems, blockchain decentralisation, textiles, and generative authorship.
Decentralizing Creativity ↗Le Random interviews DesLauriers on the documentary Generative, Bitframes, AI, and historical narrative.
Matt DesLauriers on a Generative World ↗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 ↗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) ↗