Tonje Kristensen Johnstone is a Senior Lecturer and PhD in Textile Design with over 15 years of experience teaching subjects such as textile print, surface pattern design, and design methods. Her never-ending passion lies in the field of surface patterns—an area that has continually shaped both her teaching and research.
In her PhD research, Kristensen Johnstone explored surface patterns, spatiality, and pattern relations within textile design. She investigated how surface patterns can function as spatial definers and what they signify within the broader context of pattern design. Her work challenges conventional understandings of what patterns are, how they are designed, and how they can be experienced.
Kristensen Johnstone’s research also contributes to the development of pattern theory and innovative design methods. She frequently involves textile and fashion design students in her research, using workshops not only as a teaching tool but also as a method for gaining deeper insight. This hands-on, collaborative approach is a cornerstone of her pedagogical practice.

Stephanie Pan is a composer, interdisciplinary maker, voice artist performer, and designer. Her work is a mutating combination of live music/sound art/(physical-)theater/(participatory-)performance art/textile art/installation. Central to her art practice is the notion of ‘analog digital’, approaching contemporary art from an analog, hands-on approach while reflecting and digesting digital technology and aesthetics within the realm of human imperfection and interpretation. Algorithmic Knitting Design brings together her deep love for handknitting and handicrafts, histories in clothing design and applied mathematics, and connection with new media artists in algorithmic design and thinking. Aesthetically her designs are inspired by digital aesthetics and minimalist fashion design, focusing on form, shape and drape, as opposed to traditional apparel shaping.

• https://algorithmicknitting.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/have.robot.dog.will.travel/

I was born in Tallinn in 1963. Graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) 1986, textile design. Worked in the textile factory after graduation for 6 years. Teaching at EKA 1990-2004. Work at Pallas University of Applied Sciences (Pallas UAS) since 2005, since 2020 as a professor. I started to take part in the exhibitions with tapestries in the 80ties. In 2004 I started to develop textile tools, in 2009 I got my first utility model Adjustable Weaving Reed (AdRe), followed by Adjustable Sliding Reed (RailReed). Since 2015 I have been participating in hackathons and with the help of teamwork and support from Pallas UAS have been able to develop the textile tools and methods further (MultiWeave, 2016). Besides teaching I do book designs and layout, build and develop textile tools in my company Kadipuu Ltd with visual artist Marilyn Piirsalu.

• https://kadipuu.ee/
• https://www.railreed.ee/
• @kadipuu

Kristin Henry is a Procedural artist based in San Francisco, California. Having worked in Science and Data Visualization, she often takes inspiration from Science and Mathematics. Developing Chemistry simulation and educational games inspire many of her works created with code, data and more conventional art media (ink on paper).

https://www.patreon.com/posts/particle-dance-13502359

Blair develops tools that make authoring physical processes more like authoring code: a dynamic mode of creative inquiry for insight and expression. Through small scale-automation and open-source community, he explores machine automation as a creative medium.

website: https://blairsubbaraman.com/
instagram: @blairsubbaraman

Stu Smith is professor emeritus in the departments of Music and Computer Science at UMass Lowell. His work in digital art began with a Fortran program he wrote as an undergraduate to create short musical compositions. For many years he used analog and digital equipment to create multimedia works that also incorporated musicians and dancers. Most recently has been creating works of digital art using a purely algorithmic approach.

https://medium.com/@stuartsmith_5327

Leon Eckard is a German media artist, composer, and musician based in Berlin. He studied Music and Media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Universitat de Barcelona, with Jazz-Guitar as his main subject. He further pursued studies in Art and Media at the University of the Arts Berlin under Prof. Alberto de Campo and at the Tama Art University Tokyo with Prof. Akihiro Kubota. Additionally, he is a member of the collective S4NTP.

Leon Eckard’s work spans interactive installations, self-built instruments, recordings, and live performances, primarily using open-source software, custom-built electronic systems, and found objects. In his practice, he explores the intersection of natural and artificial processes, focusing on processes, perception, emergence, and their effects on our understanding of reality and ourselves.

His works and performances have been shown at various venues and exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including errant sound berlin, Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, New Now Festival, CTM Vorspiel, Goethe Institute Tokyo, NIME and xCoAx Conference.

• talaveradeluz.org
• instagram.com/_leon_eckard_
• leoneckard.com