I was happy to meet linguist Wataru Uegaki at a research ‘crucible’ event connected with my fellowship (we are both…
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…
Workshop: On being formal: communal informatics, khipu technologies, extractivism, and debt.
We are running a workshop alongside Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Julian Rohrhuber on the 31st January at the Epistemic Media Research Group (Institute for Music and Media) in Düsseldorf. This event will be a convergence of two areas of recent resea…
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 …
Alpaca Festival and Conference
The Alpaca 2025 festival and conference on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts is happening this September 2025. Please see…
Algorithmic Pattern call for talks, performances and workshops now open
The Algorithmic Pattern 2025 call for talks has been open for a while, and the call is now open for…
Pre-announcement: Algorithmic Pattern 2025
We’re excited to pre-announce the first edition of a conference/festival Algorithmic Pattern 2025. It will take place in September 2025,…
Research visit: Wearable Senses Lab
I was happy to visit Kristina Andersen, Pei-Ying Lin, Femke Vorselen and colleagues for two weeks at the Wearable Senses…
From Konnakol to Live Coding
Konnakol is a South Indian, Carnatic musical practice involving the recitation of syllables while clapping the underlying tala. Here is…
Modulating time
I’m just back from a productive week working with Mika Satomi and Lizzie Wilson on a mini project ‘Modulating Time’…