William Mapan: links

Art Blocks' artist profile records Mapan's Paris practice, biography, recognition, and platform projects.

Anticyclone comprises 800 atmospheric abstractions that translate air flow, rotation, pressure, paper, and crayon into code.

Jeff Davis interviews Mapan about his education, patient process, artistic influences, and the development of Anticyclone.

Art Blocks' exhibition essay introduces Paysages Plausibles and Mapan's continuing inquiry into computational landscape.

Mapan's exhibition chronology documents presentations of Anticyclone, Distance, Sketchbook, Centrifuge, and related works from 2022 onward.

Verse archives Sketchbook A, a collector-curated generative series derived from more than 1.5 million explored seeds.

Bright Moments' token record documents 1935, Mapan's 100-work response to Anni Albers and her travels in Mexico.

Avant Arte documents Centrifuge, a 35-work series pairing coded movement with unique physical prints.

LACMA's Unframed journal interviews Mapan about Distance, Paul Klee, aerial views, colour, material studies, and generative process.

Toledo Museum of Art's Infinite Images archive presents Distance #198 and its response to Klee's 1914 watercolour.

Toledo Museum of Art's artist profile surveys Mapan's movement between physical mark-making and generative code.

Arab Bank Switzerland records Strands of Solitude #028 in its collection and describes the series' connection-isolation theme.

Petit Palais records a public conversation between Mapan and Centre Pompidou new-media curator Philippe Bettinelli.

IZZA's Museum in the Medina collection includes multiple Anticyclone works and physical works by Mapan.

The Digital Art Awards record Mapan's Anticyclone presentation and the practice's movement from physical sketches into code.

Bright Moments' artist page introduces Mapan's digital practice and his Mexico City project 1935.

Bright Moments documents the Mexico City collection and live-mint programme in which 1935 appeared.

Verse's profile surveys Mapan's major series, art-historical references, exhibitions, and teaching practice.

SOLOS' Extension exhibition placed Sketchbook B and Études within a sustained study of digital mark-making.

Ocula's record for Unit London details COMPUTE: Sinking Patterns, its eight code-based works, prints, and acrylic paintings.

Heft Gallery's inaugural GROUNDWORK grouped Mapan with artists examining process, material, and encoded systems.

Tonic's series archive records Strands of Solitude among its digital and physical art releases.

HOFA's Sketchbook B record describes Mapan's hand-led process and references to Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism.

Art Basel Paris and Iconic presented Superpositions, 250 NFC-linked art cards curated from roughly 500,000 outputs, each unlocking a hand-signed, hand-numbered print.

Right Click Save's extended interview covers Mapan's route from motion design to code, Dragons, Anticyclone, emotion, and audience.

The Monty Report interviews Mapan about artistic identity, parenthood, teaching, race, technique, and life after Anticyclone.

Dalos Dov asks Mapan about creative chaos, patience, full-time practice, influences, and the role of chance.

Art Basel's feature has Mapan reflect on his software background, the dialogue between code and painting, and the future of digital art in the age of AI.

nft now identifies Dragons as a major early fxhash project and places it within the platform's generative-art history.

Forbes reports on Distance, its LACMA context, Paul Klee source, aerial views, and Stark Bar display.

Le Random's collection note reads Strands of Solitude through density, negative space, flow fields, and the paradox of digital connection.

Observer's review of Art Basel Zero 10 (Basel, June 2026) features Mapan's Paysages Plausibles, machine-generated wireframes translated into oil; Art Blocks' presentation of his work sold out.

SonOfLasG reads Mapan's early textile-like experiments, Dragons, Anticyclone, and the Sketchbooks as a continuous practice in which the pen and hand remain upstream of the algorithm.

The original publication of SonOfLasG's essay preserves the same argument and source list in the writer's Paragraph archive.

Unit London's podcast joins Mapan with Iskra Velitchkova and Emily Xie to discuss art history, randomness, and long-form generative practice.

Verse Talks follows Sketchbook A into Sketchbook B, discussing mark-making, identity, parenthood, burnout, and authenticity.

Collector's Corner interviews Mapan about Dragons, Pokémon, early Tezos culture, and his approach to generative character.

Sotheby's catalogue records Anticyclone #337 as one of 800 unique iterations, with contract, token, and provenance data.

Christie's 3.0 archive includes Mapan in Future Frequencies, its 2023 generative art and fashion auction with Gucci.

Ragnar Digital's profile traces Mapan's physical studies, JavaScript systems, art-historical references, exhibitions, and collections.

Kanbas archives Mapan's biography and major projects, including Anticyclone, Distance, and Strands of Solitude.

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