Anna Lucia is a Dutch artist and engineer who writes code to generate geometric abstractions, often drawing on the structures of weaving and embroidery.,She studied at Delft University of Technology and worked as a water treatment engineer before turning to art full time in 2021.,
She spent a year at art school studying fashion design before switching to engineering, and only found her medium after discovering the coding language Processing in 2019.After sharing early sketches on Instagram and taking part in the Genuary challenge in 2021, she began minting her first NFTs on Foundation that August, and by October art-making had become her main activity.,
Her first long-form generative project, Loom (2021), released on Art Blocks, simulates the mechanics of a four-shaft hand weaving loom, an idea she traced back to the female Bauhaus students who were steered toward the weaving workshop while other crafts were considered off-limits to women.,A related work, Art For Walls In Public Spaces on fxhash, grew out of an earlier sketch, Art For Subways, and took its restrained mood from Brian Eno's ambient album Music for Airports.
In 2023 she began Generations, developed with the ARSNL platform and the quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama, whose vibrant geometric quilts she first saw about a year and a half earlier. Working from patterns such as the Housetop design, she built an algorithm to subdivide a grid into rectangles, and the quilters Essie Bendolph Pettway, Loretta Pettway, Louisiana P. Bendolph and Mary Margaret Pettway then curated the final outputs. The 500-edition release sold out alongside a number of one-of-a-kind physical quilts, and the collection's NFT terms include a right to quilt, so collectors can turn their piece into stitched fabric themselves.
In Oefenstof (2024), a fifty-piece release named after the Dutch word for practice fabric, she built her own library of embroidered samplers with an embroidery machine and custom code, reworking motifs traditionally used to teach girls the craft.,A companion browser-based animation, Thread, runs the same algorithm to make the patterns beneath the stitching visible, and the two works were shown together at Galerie Met in Berlin in April 2025. Her work has also been shown in “Human + Machines” during Art Basel Miami in 2021 and in “Dimensions of Digitization” at CCAM Yale in 2024.
