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, DesLauriers constructs intricate digital compositions that explore architectural form, urban rhythm, and the aesthetics of machine intelligence. His Crystal Tower series translates the massing of urban buildings into crystalline structures, using algorithms that mimic the natural growth patterns of crystals. These digital sculptures emerge from a generative process where data about the built environment is reinterpreted through systems of instruction, resulting in forms that are both precise and organic.
DesLauriers’s work is rooted in process, a dialogue between artist and machine, where control and unpredictability coexist. 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 creativity.
