Join us on September 19th and 20th in STWST for the watch party for Alpaca 2025 - algorithmic patterns in the creative arts!
Where: Servus Lecture Room, Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse, Linz
Alpaca conference will feature 35 speakers and workshop leaders exploring algorithmic patterns in the creative arts, showcasing pattern-based work across music, textiles, dance and more.
Patterns are a kind of heritage algorithm, and so we will showcase both heritage and digital arts and crafts together. Despite the inclusion of contemporary digital arts, our focus will be fully on hands-on, human creativity and not artificial intelligence.
The event will showcase work across disciplines, featuring diverse talks, workshops, and performances exploring how we can explore beyond our imaginations through pattern-making.
The conference will take place over two weekends. You will be able to join all talks online.
The first weekend will focus on talks hosted in Sheffield UK, as part of the Alpaca Festival programme based there.
The second weekend will focus on on-line talks, with ‘watch parties’ in Berlin, Barcelona, Linz and Sheffield.
19 September (Europe/Vienna time): 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Session 7 – chair Alex McLean
1:30 p.m. – Algorithmic Archaeology of Folk Motifs: Nature, Code, and Cultural Memory – Nicu Popescu
1:55 p.m. – Arche-Scriptures: Ceramics as a Speculative Medium for Digital Memory – Alberto Harres
2:20 p.m. – TTT2: The Woven Skin — Coding and Signifying Through a (Proto) Writing (From a Constellation of Language-s) – Maria Jose Rios Araya
Session 8
2:55 p.m. – Talavera de Luz – Renovación de nuestra Herencia – Leon Eckard
3:20 p.m. – Patterns in Inflected Julia Sets – Claude Heiland-Allen
3:45 p.m. – Thinking About Fractals (Fabric is Fractal) – Patricia Bentley
Session 9
4:20 p.m. – Algorithmic Two-Step – Stuart Smith
4:45 p.m. – Printed Patterns – Blair Subbaraman
5:10 p.m. – Taking Inspiration from Biochemistry: Small Things with Small Forces forming Complex Patterns – Kristin Henry
5:35 p.m. – Performance: Flux – Ranura Vacia
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20 September (Europe/Vienna time) 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Keynote
11:00 a.m. – Endosymbiotic Computation – Unlearning Alpaca and Why Dissipation is Key.. – Shintaro Miyazaki
Session 10
11:50 a.m. – Pulse, Pattern, Permutation: Applying Schillinger’s Pulse Interference in Computer-Assisted Composition – David Chechelashvili, Alan Brown
12:15 p.m. – Multi-directional pattern repeats – an alternative method for pattern repetition – Tonje Kristensen Johnstone
12:40 p.m. – MultiWeave. Knight’s Tour and Other Sources of Inspiration – Kadi Pajupuu
Performance
1:30 p.m. – Procedural pulse – mot4i
Session 11
2:00 p.m. – pSine waves: introducing Lp-Spaces for Sound and Graphics – Sol Sarratea
2:25 p.m. – Algorithmic Knitting Design: Integrating algorithmic computing, fashion design and handknitting – Stephanie Pan
Alpaca 2025 is funded as part of the UK Research and Innovation Future Leader Fellowship “Algorithmic Pattern”, hosted by independent research studio Then Try This.
Alpaca Festival Sheffield organising team
Sheffield-based festival activities are hosted by Ray Morrison, Lucy Cheesman, Alex McLean and Hazel Ryan, of Sheffield Pattern Club.
The watch party in Linz is hosted by TOPlap Linz https://social.toplap.org/@linz
Full info: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/