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We’re excited to welcome textile/sound artist, technologist and doctoral researcher Paola Torres Núñez del Prado as the first resident in our lab in Sheffield next week, exploring patterns in Andean culture including the Khipu, and its potential for/as contemporary technology. While visiting she’ll give a free public talk/performance as part of the local Sheffield Pattern […]

The Summer of Haskell is a programme run by the Haskell programming language community, funded as part of the Google Summer of Code, paying a stipend to being contributing to open source projects. I’ve got a lot out of mentoring projects as part of this for the past three years, and hope to do so […]

Around June 2022, we hosted six excellent speakers exploring algorithmic patterns from their own perspectives, in particular: The talks took place online, and happily are all archived and available to watch on our youtube channel.

Local live coders/pattern enthusiasts Lucy Cheesman, Ray Morrison and I have started a monthly ‘pattern club’ in Sheffield, dedicated to a different kinds of hands-on pattern making. The first two events were about live coding music, the last one in December 2022 was about Kumihimo braiding, and the next one in January 2023 will be […]

Lizzie Wilson, Iván Paz and myself Alex McLean organised a fun algorithmic pattern workshop as part of the collect(_) festival, which was the final event of the Creative Europe on-the-fly project. It included a morning workshop on tablet weaving by Dave Griffiths, who introduced this fascinating, ancient craft as a computational artform. This lead into […]