Short film: Pattern Club Winter School

Last winter, we ran a winter school as part of the Algorithmic Pattern project, in collaboration with Ray Morrison and Lucy Cheesman. With participants with diverse practices brought together via an open call, we explored patterns in origami, dance, mu…

Tying knots in Düsseldorf

In January Alex, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Dave were invited by our long term collaborator and friend Julian Rohrhuber to visit the Institute for Music and Media (IMM) in Düsseldorf to expand on our previous work together with Andean Khipu.The t…

Funky flouro-orange pattern, looks a bit like two moths side by side.

Exploring 8 shaft weaving

After a bit of time off from weaving after the PENELOPE project, it was great to visit Kristina Andersen, Pei-Ying…

Weaving to understand how humans think

I've been playing with a weaving pattern over the last few months, it's based on one of the oldest pieces of fabric found, in Hallstatt in Austria. The papers and publications on it are largely pay-walled and quite tricky to get hold of, but …

Weaving to understand the cosmos

One of the goals of the Algorithmic Pattern project is to apply algorithmic knowledge in craft to new scientific or mathematical purposes. One of the people we met when we were working with Geraldine Jones during her residency on the project was Charlo…

Alpaca Festival and Conference

The Alpaca 2025 festival and conference on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts is happening this September 2025. Please see…