Matt DesLauriers
Matt DesLauriers is a generative artist whose practice sits at the intersection of code, craft, and contemporary visual culture.
Using custom-built algorithms and creative coding, he constructs intricate digital compositions that explore architectural form, urban rhythm, and the aesthetics of machine intelligence. His Crystal Tower series, for example, transforms skyscraper-like structures into algorithmic landscapes, each one a unique output of autonomous systems shaped by human intention.
DesLauriers’s work is rooted in process: a dialogue between artist and machine, where systems of instruction give rise to unexpected beauty. His use of JavaScript, Node.js, and browser-based tools reflects a commitment to open-source creativity and a reimagining of traditional artistic methods. Whether plotting robotic drawings or rendering complex 3D environments, his practice challenges conventional boundaries between digital and physical, automated and handmade.
At Oxford North - a place designed to foster innovation and interdisciplinary exchange - DesLauriers’s work offers a compelling vision of how diversity in tools, thought, and technique can lead to new forms of expression. His generative systems reflect the evolving relationship between technology and art, inviting us to consider how creativity can flourish when we embrace complexity, collaboration, and the unexpected
TALKS & WORKSHOPS:
Creative Coding & Generative Art with JavaScript – TITC Toronto, workshop 2019 | Making Generative Art with JavaScript – GROW Paris, workshop 2019 | The Web Audio Experience – FITC Totonro 2017
Matt DesLauriers lives and works in London.
“It’s this idea of process and craft – working through a set of systems, a set of instructions to get to a final output that I’m really interested in with my Generative systems. That is something that also draws me into this world of screen printing. Once I start to go down this path of learning about screen printing, I go back to my code, and my code ends up being kind of changed, shifted and inspired by the print processes.”
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