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

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
– of enduring yet fraying, fading, and falling apart.

bentleypbentley.myportfolio.com

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.

• home page https://mathr.co.uk
• fediverse @mathr
• about the tool: https://mathr.co.uk/web/inflector-gadget.html
• the interactive tool: https://mathr.co.uk/ig/