Matt DesLauriers
"I'm a Canadian artist, now based in the UK. My practice primarily focuses on code, software, and generative processes. I am also an active contributor to open source software, building tools and libraries to support creative coding and generative art workflows." - Matt DesLauriers
Meridian #808
"Meridian is a collection of 1000 artworks released on the platform Art Blocks, each created with code written by Matt DesLauriers. A JavaScript program which runs the code constructs stratified landforms using thousands of small strokes of colour. Different styles of strokes create different effects, all inspired by analog techniques such as charcoal, gouache or linogravure. The beauty is that every time a collector mints an artwork on Art Blocks, the code will randomly generate a new artwork that not even the artist can know in advance." - Meridian, the book
Subscapes #512
"The design of Subscapes started as a rather simple concept: a generative algorithm that, each time it runs, produces a unique and other-worldly landscape, realized in the style of a topographic map, and rendered with pen-like strokes, as if it were mechanically plotted by a team of geologists surveying the metaverse." - Matt DesLauriers
Sierra
"Sierra carves a lone mountain from chance and serendipity. From thousands of generative outputs, Matt DesLauriers was struck by an artwork that broke the confines of his algorithm. Like a mountain reaching out from the landscape below, his code had arranged colours to cast an ‘alpenglow’. This optical phenomenon occurs when the sun dips below the horizon, bathing mountain peaks in a fiery glow. The dialogue of colour theory was pivotal in transforming the digital artwork into a print. The palette of DesLauriers’ algorithm, while striking in digital form, presented challenges for silkscreen printing. This led to a careful unravelling of the original RGB palette into CMYK components. 15 layers of ink flood a creamy off-white background, creating a textured depth reminiscent of a woodcut print. Finally, a layer of fluorescent ink is applied to the red and yellow areas, capturing the warm iridescent sheen of alpenglow." - Avant Arte
Bitframes
"An open-source generative art and documentary crowdfund for Generative Film, with 100% of net proceeds supporting the film's production." - bitframes.io