Mathias Isaksen is a generative artist and creative coder based in Oslo, Norway, working under the handle st4yhome. Guided by a do-it-yourself ethos, he explores the balance between opposing qualities and finds unconventional uses for common generative-art techniques such as domain warping, ray marching and fragment shaders.
Isaksen earned a master's degree in applied physics and mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2020, worked briefly in tech consulting, and then took a sabbatical to focus on his creative practice full time. He began making generative art in the summer of 2020, shortly after finishing his thesis, after seeing a TikTok video of a string-art technique that he recreated using the statistical software R. Around the same time, applying his background in spatial statistics, he came across the technique of domain warping, which became central to his practice.
