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We are again happy to be featuring the PENELOPE project as part of AlgoMech festival, including the Symposium on Dancing and Braiding in collaboration with Victoria Mitchell. Details on the symposium are below (more details will appear on the main symposium webpage soon). We will be taking part in other parts of the festival, including a public performance with the Penelopean robots dancing around a maypole in an attempt to create braids, more on that soon!https://algomech.com/symposium/9:30am - 5pm, 17th May 2019Site gallery, Sheffield, UKTickets now available - £27.50 (£13.75 concs), including lunch and refreshmentsLaunching AlgoMech Festival, an interdisciplinary symposium bringing together perspectives from digital media, choreography &#38; dance technology, traditional Andean and Ancient Greek textiles, e-textiles, philology, live coding and architecture.Through talks, discussion and performance, contributors to the symposium will consider their work in the context of interlacing within and between textiles, e-textiles, pattern, structure and movement, including dance. Interfaces between materials, craft technologies, digital engineering, responsive systems, embodied communications, threads, inter-weaving, intertwining, braiding and building will provide a rich vein of dialogue, experimentation and recent practice-led outcomes.Note the symposium will be followed by the AlgoMech festival exhibition launch event with dance performance and screening. See https://algomech.com/2019/ for detailsTextile as interfaceVictoria Mitchell (session chair)Kate Sicchio (Dance and Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University)Dancer, choreographer, coderBerit Greinke (University of Arts, Berlin)E-textiles, designIn and Out of Weaving Thea Pitman - Session chairLatin American Studies, University of LeedsSandra de Berduccy (to be confirmed)E-textile artist, BoliviaToni BuckbyTextiles and Digital Media, Sheffield Hallam/V&#38;AInterlacing structures in time and placeEllen Harlizius-Klück (session chair)Victoria MitchellBraiding &#38; dancingMarina Castan Cabrero (Textiles, Royal College of Art, London)Architecture, textileThreads and technologies on the moveRosamaria Kostic Cisernos (Dance research, Coventry University)Dave Griffiths - Penelopean roboticsGeneralist, FoAM KernowGiovanni Fanfani (Deutsches Museum, Germany)Made possible with the support of European Research Council (682711: PENELOPE - Weaving as a Technical Mode of Existence), Sheffield City of Ideas, Sheffield City of Makers, Sheffield Cultural Consortium, and Arts Council, England.