Emily Xie (Chinese-American, b. 1989) is a generative artist who writes code to translate the texture of textiles, quilts and collage into digital abstractions, treating algorithmic pattern-making as a kind of digital loom. Trained in art history and formerly a software engineer, she left her corporate job in 2022 to make art full-time and lives and works in New York City.
As a child, she has said, “cyberspace offered so much more to explore than my small hometown ever could”, and it was online that she discovered art, taught herself to draw, and built her first websites. She had worked as a software engineer before leaving that job in 2022 to become a full-time artist, just as institutions were beginning to embrace blockchain-based generative art.
