Matt DesLauriers is a Canadian-born generative artist and creative coder based in London. His Art Blocks projects Meridians and Subscapes explore the aesthetics of changing landscapes and terrains.
The big thing for Filigree is that I'm trying to integrate AI into my generative art workflow in a way that I feel like I have control over it. Previously, when I've worked with AI and machine learning models, it felt a bit like a black box—you train it and then you don't have much control over it.
Matt DesLauriers, Matt DesLauriers on Challenging the Image
He basically created this machine learning model. You can prompt it, and then it makes a one-line drawing of how it interprets your prompt, which is then contrasted with more interesting drawings by humans, because the machine always gravitates towards the average that it learns.
thefunnyguys, 2025 Digital Art in Review