Lars Wander is a German-born, New York City-based artist and programmer who creates work entirely through code, exploring how computation shapes perception of color, form and light. His practice includes paint-mixing algorithms built on color science and long-form generative series, each developed by implementing a single system and exploring it in depth over months.
Wander studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and then worked as a software engineer at Google for seven and a half years, including time on a visualization team modeling global-scale storage systems. He began treating code as an artistic medium in 2020, after seeing data visualizations made by his manager at the time, Wim De Pauw. Around the same period he took up a pen plotter and produced hundreds of drawings during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, some of which were shown in his first solo exhibition, “Perry, Mary, and Lars”, at Verse.
