Back in May I had a lot of fun visiting IMAL in Brussels, for an experimental event bringing together live…
Bharatanatyam Dance with Janani Suresh Ram
I’ve been really fascinated with the geometry of Carnatic (South Indian) rhythms for some years now. Here’s a talk/performance I…
Weaving with Laura Devendorf
After collaborating with experimental weaver, design researcher and technologist Laura Devendorf on many on-line events (including the algorithmic pattern salon…
Alpaca 2027 – call for proposals
The dates for our next Alpaca festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts are now set for 6-9th May…
Homo Textor: weaving as a (technical) mode of existence
Homo Textor is published! It follows the PENELOPE project lead by Ellen-Harlizius Klück, which prefigured the Algorithmic Pattern project –…
Textile Intersections – a paper on live coding weaves (and a pre-algorave)
I’m just back from the Textiles Intersections conference in London, where we presented our work so far on live coding…
Performance/talk: Embodying algorithmic music
Reposted from Alex McLean. I’m off to the RMA study day on “Embodied Research Methods in Music & Sound” in…
(un)weaving workshop, April 2026
We had a lot of fun running an unweaving, aka “reverse drafting” workshop in Sheffield last Tuesday! This was inspired … More
Knitting
I’m drawn back to Sanquhar knitting again!
A guide to the patterns
Videos from May MacCormick on knitting – knitting class introduction, part one, part two
I also found the seemingly less well-known tradition from the Yorkshire Dales of “Dales Glove…
Weaving 8-shaft crackle patterns
We acquired an eight-shaft table loom for the algorithmic pattern project, and have been exploring ‘crackle weave’ patterns, where a threading pattern is created by repeating a small motif is repeated along a path, with intermediate steps added accordi…