Alpaca 2025

Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts

  • Patricia Bentley

    I have spent my life with textiles, in one way or another. I have explored and made textiles through costume design for theatre and opera, and through art making and museum curatorial work. I am especially interested in textiles’ contradictory qualities– of softness yet mathematical rigour– of hiding in plain sight– of patterning– of interlacing–…

  • Claude Heiland-Allen

    Claude Heiland-Allen is an artist from London interested in the complex emergent behaviour of simple systems. Online at mathr.co.uk, offline in Alt Empordà.

  • Kate Sicchio

    Kate Sicchio is a choreographer and media artist whose work merges movement with code, systems, and digital tools. She creates performances using live coding, wearable tech, and real-time systems, exploring how bodies and machines co-compose. Her work has been shown in the US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands and Qatar at venues such as PS122…

  • Eye Measure

    eye measure is a UK, Sheffield-based artist making weird and dark computer music with live coding and algorithmic composition. Their performances have taken place at venues such as Cafe OTO, Corsica Studios, Venue MOT, No Bounds and Supernormal Festival. They have released music with labels Cherche Encore, Edited Arts, and TT. In Sheffield, they co-run…

  • Phase Transition

    Phase Transition is a collaborative project by Barcelona-based artists Julia Múgica and Iván Paz, exploring the expressive potential of collective systems, sound synthesis, and learning algorithms to create audiovisual patterns that move on the limits of contrast and repetition.

  • James Holden

    James is a synth enthusiast, repetition enjoyer, trance fan, co-runs border community records, and is developing a piece of open source music software called benny. The Universe Will Take Care Of You by Holden & Zimpel

  • Nick Rothwell

    Nick Rothwell (Project Cassiel) is a composer, performer, software architect, coder and visual artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper, composed sound scores for Aydın Teker (Istanbul / Kapadokya), Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and Avatâra Ayuso, toured with Luz & Mannion Flamenco, live-coded in Mexico, processed a 3D…

  • UDAGAN

    For Alpaca Festival, UDAGAN will perform “Biological Machines” Saydyy Kuo will perform spoken word vocals in both English and in her native language (Sakha) over an evolving group-improvisational algorithmic/organic soundscape, performed by live coder Oscar South and jazz pianist Samuel Wilson Wain. The poetry is broken up by instrumental interludes where Saydyy will join the…

  • Sarah Heneghan & Will Shaw Present: Wood + Metal

    Wood + Metal are a drum duo featuring Sarah Heneghan (Key of She, Power Out) and Will Shaw (balo, Assembly Trio) whose set creates a trance-like atmosphere of patterns, soundscapes and meditation. Using just their acoustic kits, Wood + Metal explores how creativity and possibilities can flourish when, paradoxically, limitations are placed upon us.

  • Polinski

    Best known as a member of the experimental band 65daysofstatic, Paul Wolinski has spent the last two decades releasing numerous studio albums and touring the world. Always eager to explore less conventional ways to make and present music, amongst other projects the band composed the ‘infinite’ soundtrack to the video game No Man’s Sky and…