[spectre] Alpaca 2025 - Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts, 12-20th September 2025

[Alex McLean]

*Alpaca conference 2025*
12-20th September 2025 (with additional workshop 4th October)
Free and open access, pre-booking required.
Online and in Barcelona, Berlin, Linz and Sheffield
https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/conference/

Alpaca conference 2025 is an on-line accessible event exploring algorithmic patterns in the creative arts, including procedures for making, material behaviours, and pattern culture across choreography, textiles, juggling, visual art and music. It brings both heritage and contemporary algorithms together, with human-centric perspectives that look beyond over-hyped technologies.

For full information and free registration, see https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/conference/

*The conference overlaps with Alpaca festival in Sheffield UK, hosting an additional in-person music and workshop programme. This email focusses on the conference, but for more details on the festival see *
*https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/*

Overview:

*Online workshops:*
    Two workshops. Free pre-booking required.
 • 17th Sept -* Revisiting Locus: Choreographing patterns through points in space* - Kate Sicchio
 • 18th Sept -* Introduction to the qiudanz technique: computational transformation of minimalist movement sequences* – sejo vega and mel*
 • 4th Oct -* Flip, Rotate, Repeat: Remixing weave drafts through pattern play* – Etta Sandry

*Conference sessions*
36 diverse presentations exploring the conference themes.
Free pre-booking required, whether joining online, or at one of the conference hubs/'watch parties'.
*12th and 13th Sept* - hosted as part of the Alpaca Festival in Sheffield UK, streamed on-line.
*19th and 20th Sept* - focussed online, with 'watch parties'/hubs in Axolot Barcelona, UdK Berlin, Servus Linz and Pattern Club Sheffield.

*Conference talks:*
 • *Techniques for livecoding complex 3D printing patterns* - Evan Raskob
 • *Algorithmic Patterns in Magnetic Resonance Imaging* - Mags Tavener
 • *Fragmented Music - Procedures, Behaviours, and Culture from A record without prior acoustic information (2012-)* - JO Kazuhiro
 • *The Unrepeating-Repeat: A Pattern Logic of Variation, Translation, and Perceptual Shift* - Danica Maier
 • *How a hacked 70s knitting machine became a participant in our lab on weaving sustainable digital future stories* - Mario Angst
 • *An art practice using infrastructure and other systems to create infinitely repeating patterns* - Paul Hallows
 • *Entangled Rituals: Visualizing Chance Through Quantum Algorithms* - Agoston Nagy
 • *Binary trimmings and light-up loops: representing binary numbers with e-textiles and the heritage textile craft of passementerie* - Jessica Stanley
 • *An exploration of the mathematics behind juggling* - Mees Jager
 • *Flitter: A declarative language for structured visuals* - Jonathan Hogg
 • *Tabla to Drumset: Translating Rhythmic Language* - Shreya Gupta
 • *Olio* - Sarah GHP
 • *Kolams, Code, Cultures - Towards a universal pattern language* - Lavannya Suressh
 • *Pastagang: Jamming together far apart *- Pastagang
 • *Count your Chickens – Pattern generation as a matter of counting* - Rocco Lorenzo Modugno, Amedeo Bonini, Marco Buiani
 • *Overtonic Pattern Notation Inside Cross-Cultural Feedback Loops* - Saydyko Fedorova-South
 • *Reflections on London Pattern Club* - James Walker
 • *Encoding and Experimenting with Vernacular Quilt Patterns* - Lee Tusman
 • *3D Patterning in the Cosmoscope* - Nick Rothwell
 • *Steganography within textile* - Bérénice Gaça Courtin
 • *Algorithmic Archaeology of Folk Motifs: Nature, Code, and Cultural Memory* - Nicu Popescu
 • *Arche-Scriptures: Ceramics as a Speculative Medium for Digital Memory* - Alberto Harres
 • *TTT2: The Woven Skin — Coding and Signifying Through a (Proto) Writing (From a Constellation of Language-s)* - Maria Jose Rios Araya
 • *Talavera de Luz - Renovación de nuestra Herencia* - Leon Eckard
 • *Patterns in Inflected Julia Sets* - Claude Heiland-Allen
 • *Thinking About Fractals (Fabric is Fractal)* - Patricia Bentley
 • *Algorithmic Two-Step* - Stuart Smith
 • *Printed Patterns* - Blair Subbaraman
 • *Taking Inspiration from Biochemistry: Small Things with Small Forces forming Complex Patterns* - Kristin Henry
 • *Pulse, Pattern, Permutation: Applying Schillinger’s Pulse Interference in Computer-Assisted Composition* - David Chechelashvili, Alan Brown
 • *Multi-directional pattern repeats – an alternative method for pattern repetition* - Tonje Kristensen Johnstone
 • *MultiWeave. Knight’s Tour and Other Sources of Inspiration* - Kadi Pajupuu
 • *Keynote: Endosymbiotic Computation – Unlearning Alpaca and Why Dissipation is Key..* - Shintaro Miyazaki
 • *pSine waves: introducing Lp-Spaces for Sound and Graphics* - Sol Sarratea
 • *Algorithmic Knitting Design: Integrating algorithmic computing, fashion design and handknitting* - Stephanie Pan
 • *An Electromagnetic Pattern Journey* - Gábor Ugray

I hope you can join us!
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