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Matt Jacobson (NumbersInMotion): links

Sources tracing Jacobson's Art Blocks collections, interviews, institutional contexts, collaborations, platforms, and secondary reception.

18 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks records Watercolor Dreams as a 600-work Curated project released on April 30, 2021.

Watercolor Dreams collection · 2021

Art Blocks records Blaschke Ballet as a 600-work Playground project released on September 30, 2021.

Blaschke Ballet collection · 2021

Interviews

Jeff Davis interviews Jacobson about creative coding, SFPC, generative-art history, and Watercolor Dreams.

In Conversation with Matt Jacobson interview · 2021

A Plottables community transcript records Jacobson in conversation with minimizer during the launch of Scribble Together.

Scribble Together conversation interview · 2024

Criticism and commissions

Holladay Saltz uses Watercolor Dreams in an extended art-historical argument about serial algorithmic art.

On a New Aesthetics of Seriality criticism · 2024

Samsung announces Jacobson's 100-work MyBespoke collection and explains its algorithmic and physical presentation.

Samsung MyBespoke announcement press · 2023

BUOY documents the design and delivery of Jacobson's generative works for customizable Samsung refrigerator panels.

Samsung: Bespoke studio case study · 2023

Education

The School for Poetic Computation lists Jacobson in its Fall 2017 student showcase and documents the program's code, critical theory, hardware, and code-poetry curriculum.

SFPC Fall 2017 Student Showcase institution · 2017

Platforms and material practice

Art Blocks describes Plottables as Jacobson's curated onchain platform for pen-plotter generative art.

Plottables platform · current

The Plottables marketplace documents the platform's range of artist-programmed drawing projects and Jacobson's participation.

Plottables marketplace platform archive · current

Art Blocks records Streamlines as Jacobson's 500-work Plottables release from December 2021.

Streamlines collection · 2021

Art Blocks records Endless (5,607,250 to Infinity), Jacobson's Plottables collaboration with Modnar Wolf.

Endless collection · 2022

Art Blocks documents Stitchables, Jacobson and Luke Shannon's platform connecting code with machine embroidery.

Stitchables platform · current

Art Blocks records connect-close as the pair's first onchain Stitchables collection.

connect-close collection · 2024

Exhibitions and releases

Art Blocks records SPINᵗ, Jacobson's December 2023 project for Bright Moments.

SPINᵗ collection · 2023

Profiles and archives

Art Blocks profiles Jacobson's biography, education, exhibitions, projects, and interdisciplinary practice.

Matt Jacobson profile · current

Jacobson's official site presents selected projects spanning looping GIFs, plotters, Art Blocks, Samsung, and generative embroidery.

Matt Jacobson official archive · current

Jocelyn Renouf presents a collaboration with Jacobson combining ink sketches and pen-plotter patterns.

Ink Sketches & Pen Plotter project archive · current

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