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

Romanian artist Nicu Popescu merges algorithmic art with Arduino controllers to create dynamic, often interactive pieces shaped by real-time processes.

Cellular Automata and Turing Patterns underpin his exploration of profound questions about human nature, societal themes, and the fluidity of time.

Nicu’s diverse interests—spanning digital art, product design, woodworking, sculpture, and Arduino—shape his career in generative art. His travels and interactions with people inspire his creative pursuits, enriching his work with diverse cultural perspectives and artistic influences.

• https://nicup.art
• https://www.instagram.com/nicu_p_/

Shintaro Miyazaki is a (junior)-professor in “Digital Media and Computation” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Around 2010 he first wrote on the history of computers, on algorithms and their rhythms. After that, interest in leftist theory and Felix Guattari, arose. In 2023 he published a short book on dance, modelling and commoning – Counter-Dancing Digitality. Now he works on endosymbiosis, dissipation and unlearning computation.

https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~miyazash

For Alpaca, Shintaro Miyazaki will give our keynote talk “Endosymbiotic Computation – Unlearning Alpaca and Why Dissipation is Key..”.

Dr David Chechelashvili is a researcher and ambient music artist working primarily with modular synthesisers. He lectures in music production and serves as research coordinator at SAE Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests include psychoanalysis and music, electroacoustic composition, and computer-assisted composition. More broadly, his work explores the extent to which aesthetic artefacts can be understood as symptoms of the culture that produced them, with a particular focus on the role of the unconscious in music-making, especially in technologically mediated improvisation.

https://www.instagram.com/wakermusic