We were very happy to host and take part in Alpaca 2025 – Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts, a distributed festival and conference connecting Sheffield, Berlin, Barcelona, and Linz.
Over two weekends in September plus online workshops, the conference brought together 35 speakers and workshop leaders across disciplines, with talks, performances, and interactive sessions on pattern-based practices in music, textiles, dance, visual art, and digital media.

Our Berlin watch-party was organised in collaboration with UdK Berlin and InKuele, with technical support from the InKuele team. The event was streamed live, and audiences around the world could follow the talks and performances online—local participants joined via watch parties in Berlin, Barcelona, Linz, and Sheffield.

The topics ranged from procedural weaving and neural pattern generation to choreographic sequence systems, algorithmic knitting design, visual motifs in MRI data, and speculative patterning in sound and code. Across these sessions, participants explored how heritage crafts and contemporary digital art can dialogue through patterns, and how hands-on creativity resists purely automated aesthetics.

You can still access recordings of all streams via stream.udk.de (the streaming platform of the Berlin University of the Arts).

We are always glad to collaborate within our platform and to contribute to open, collective explorations of art and technology. We look forward to more shared projects and connections with the growing Alpaca community and beyond.

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