Anna Lucia - 33 million

33 million

2024
122 NFTs + 33 machine embroidery on canvas
JavaScript, Java, textile, thread
Verse project page

Publication:
- A Personal List of Some of The Most Interesting Digital-Art Experiments of 2023”, Artnet, December 2023

Exhibition:
- 2023 Dimensionality, Untitled, Miami USA

33 million is a series of generative artworks specifically exploring historical needlework samplers, pieces of cross-stitching often created to showcase needlework skills and talents or used as a reference for future embroidery, with patterns sewn randomly onto the fabric. For 33 million, I interpreted the decorative patterns commonly found on these samplers into algorithmic works that simultaneously construct and deconstruct decorative aesthetics, transforming them into rhythmic digital artifacts.

Each digital piece is individually selected from the generative algorithm, leveraging the algorithmic randomness of the art's code to rapidly explore different aesthetics and possibilities for novel patterns. For this series, I developed additional software that translates the digital works into custom patterns for machine stitching. Each artwork in this series can take the form of embroidery on stretched canvas. This work is created with p5.js, Processing, and PEmbroider.

Installation view Untitled, Miami

33 Million #9

33 Million #7

Selection of outputs 33 Million algorithm