Heavy Lifting is the solo project of Lucy Cheesman, a sound artist, musician, producer and organiser whose work can be placed within a number of different fields, often blurring the boundary between the visual, the audible and the digital. Lucy is a founder member of SONA (a network supporting women in Sheffield through experimental sound […]| Alpaca 2025
Etta Sandry is an artist, educator, and facilitator who works in the expanded material practices field between craft, contemporary art, and creative research. Through weaving and sampling she seeks to materialize the possibilities available in seemingly fixed systems. Etta completed an MFA in the Fibre & Material Practices program at Concordia University in Montreal and was the 2022 Experimental Weaver in Residence at the Unstable Design Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she is...| Alpaca 2025
Tonje Kristensen Johnstone is a Senior Lecturer and PhD in Textile Design with over 15 years of experience teaching subjects such as textile print, surface pattern design, and design methods. Her never-ending passion lies in the field of surface patterns—an area that has continually shaped both her teaching and research.In her PhD research, Kristensen Johnstone […]| Alpaca 2025
Stephanie Pan is a composer, interdisciplinary maker, voice artist performer, and designer. Her work is a mutating combination of live music/sound art/(physical-)theater/(participatory-)performance art/textile art/installation. Central to her art practice is the notion of ‘analog digital’, approaching contemporary art from an analog, hands-on approach while reflecting and digesting digital technology and aesthetics within the realm of […]| Alpaca 2025
I was born in Tallinn in 1963. Graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) 1986, textile design. Worked in the textile factory after graduation for 6 years. Teaching at EKA 1990-2004. Work at Pallas University of Applied Sciences (Pallas UAS) since 2005, since 2020 as a professor. I started to take part in the exhibitions […]| Alpaca 2025
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| Alpaca 2025
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| Alpaca 2025
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. […]| Alpaca 2025
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.| Alpaca 2025
