New to Sheffield's culture calendar for 2025, Algorithmic Pattern is a festival and conference, bringing together researchers and practitioners curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making.
People have always made algorithms to make patterns. So Algorithmic Pattern brings heritage arts and crafts – like procedural approaches in textiles, juggling, choreography, bell-ringing – together with those born in the contemporary information age – think live coding, generative art, e-textiles.
The Algorithmic Pattern team hope that it'll become a regular event, taking place every two years.
More details coming soon! In the meantime, join their mailing list.
The event will take place in two parts:
- In-person in Sheffield, and streamed online: 12–14th September 2025
- On-line, with in-person ‘watch party’ in Sheffield and potentially other sites: 19–20th September 2025 (provisional dates, may change)
Organisers:
- Alex McLean
- Anu Reddy
- Dave Griffiths
- Iván Paz
- Laura Devendorf
- Lizzie Wilson
- Lucy Cheesman
- Ray Morrison
- Vernelle A. A. Noel
- Featured in
- Sheffield Festivals Guide
