Introduction
A punch card generated at transaction time guides horizontal and vertical threads. Randomness disrupts the woven order, with colours selected from one palette. The textile reference does not by itself establish a physical woven object.
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Generating weaving instructions at transaction time
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
Work and historical context
Art Blocks dates Loom to 2021-12-10, with an edition field of 200 works and attribution to Anna Lucia. This dates the release, not the beginning of every sketch or development process.
Section sources: Loom by Anna Lucia
Generating weaving instructions at transaction time
A punch card generated at transaction time guides horizontal and vertical threads. Randomness disrupts the woven order, with colours selected from one palette. The textile reference does not by itself establish a physical woven object.
Section sources: Loom by Anna Lucia
Viewing the work and its documentation
Read Loom through interlacing, local deformation and overall texture. Comparison with textiles can distinguish weaving as a structural reference, algorithmic image-making and physical fibre production.
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Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: Weaving broadens a history otherwise dominated by painting and mathematical abstraction, foregrounding formal relationships between textiles and computation.
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Weaving broadens a history otherwise dominated by painting and mathematical abstraction, foregrounding formal relationships between textiles and computation.
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Loom by Anna Lucia
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