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…

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…