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1/ Matt DesLauriers (@mattdesl) is one of the most respected figures within generative art and creative coding, and Meridian is his most celebrated work. Next in our “Collecting The Algorithm” series is a deep dive into Meridian and its creator. (🔗 below)
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2/ In this editorial, we’ll share more about DesLauriers as an artist and creator, why we appreciate Meridian, and how we’ve curated the algorithm at Curated. https://www.curated.xyz/editorial/collecting-meridian
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3/ DesLauriers is a Canadian-born artist based in the UK. He’s been a prolific contributor to the open source community and often teaches workshops and talks on creative coding.
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4/ The artist first premiered on Art Blocks in April 2021 with his Curated release Subscapes. While he was already well known amongst the creative coding community, Subscapes put DesLauriers on the map with generative art collectors. https://www.artblocks.io/curated/collections/subscapes-by-matt-deslauriers
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5/ In September 2021, DesLauriers released Meridian. Despite being on “Art Blocks Playground”, the collection was very well received, selling out near instantly and becoming perhaps DesLauriers’ most popular generative art collection.
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6/ Meridian is a collection of 1,000 landforms constructed from tiny strokes of color. In a 15kb Javascript program, DesLauriers manages to produce an incredibly wide range of beautiful outputs, each with richness and depth that can only be appreciated by looking closer.
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7/ The artist, DesLauriers, drew inspiration from Canadian landscapes during summer vacation, blending his history with natural systems and pen plotter constraints to shape Meridian’s layered rock structures and textured strokes.
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8/ Meridian contains perhaps one of the best examples of emergence in generative art: Meridian #801 aka “Starry night”. It was a complete surprise to the artist and a reminder of the magic found in the serendipity of generative art.
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