Anna Lucia Goense

Anna Lucia Goense was born in 1991 in Wageningen, The Netherlands, and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Working under the artist name Anna Lucia, she draws on an academic background that bridges both engineering and design. She studied Fashion Design at the Utrecht School of Arts before completing a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Water Management at the Delft University of Technology. This combination of artistic instinct and scientific training underpins her approach to creative expression.

Anna Lucia is a generative artist whose practice bridges computer science and traditional craft. She writes custom software to create algorithmic art and produces textile works using a digital embroidery machine, translating patterns of code into tangible form. By introducing elements of randomness, she creates a dynamic exchange between artist and machine, allowing her systems to evolve beyond full control. 

With work spanning generative blockchain pieces, browser-based animations, machine-assisted embroidery, and tattoos, Anna Lucia selects her medium based on how it reveals the inherent aesthetics of her process. Combining mathematical precision with bold visual language, her art explores how handmade traditions and digital technologies can coexist within unified systems. She integrates VR, interactivity, and motion into her work to shape unique experiences that invite audiences to engage deeply with computational art. For Anna Lucia, coding is as vital an artistic medium as thread or ink.

Anna Lucia’s work has been exhibited internationally at some of the most respected venues and events for contemporary and digital art, including the Decentral Art Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Tezos exhibitions at Art Basel Miami and Basel, Vellum LA, CCAM at Yale University, and Subjective in New York City.