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Workshop: Introduction to live coding with Hydra

An introduction to live coding for online performances using Hydra

14 Sep 2025, 10:00 – 14:00

NODE offices / MESO Design

Gutleutstr. 96
60329 Frankfurt

0-30 €

Join us for a 1-day workshop on live coding with hydra.
The day before, Naoto will also hold a presentation at our meetup – read more about it here and join us for that too!

What is the workshop about?

In this workshop, digital performance artist Naoto Hieda gives an introduction to live coding for online performances using Hydra software. Hydra is a creative coding environment developed by Olivia Jack to create and publish visualizations in real time, especially in the web browser. Hydra is ideal for beginners and allows for the development of interactive visuals with little or no coding experience. Participants will learn how to generate glitchy images and how to use code to create their own generative aesthetic. Finally, we will create a small multimedia real-time performance in which visuals interactively respond to sound, code and to our bodies.

 

 

 

Registration

We offer three types of tickets from which you can choose the one that suits you best – please choose freely! We would be glad if you supported our program by buying a ticket. If you can’t afford the ticket, you are welcome to choose the supported ticket.

Register • Anmeldung

Who is the workshop for?

  • anyone interested
  • students in “multimedia” related studies
  • type or graphic designers
  • people afraid of coding 🙂 or
  • creative coders who’re up for learning something new
  • architects and designers who are interested in interactivity
  • the lazy ones who want to get things done without too much fuzz

What do you need to bring?

  • a laptop (Mac / Windows / Linux)

[en]

  • The workshop will be held in English
  • Please bring your own computer
  • We offer three types of tickets from which you can choose the one that suits you best – please choose freely. We would be glad if you supported our program by buying a ticket. If you can’t afford the ticket, you are welcome to choose the supported ticket!

[de]

  • Der Workshop findet auf Englisch statt. Das NODE Team kann mit Flüsterübersetzung auf Deutsch unterstützen.
  • Bitte bringt euren eigenen Laptop mit
  • Wir bieten drei Ticketarten an, aus denen ihr frei auswählen könnt. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Ihr unser Programm mit dem Kauf eines Tickets unterstützt. Solltet ihr euch die Gebühr nicht leisten können, könnt ihr gern das supported Ticket wählen!
 
 
 

 

Workshop Host

Naoto Hieda

Cologne, Germany

naotohieda.com

Naoto Hieda (they) is a media artist from Japan living in Germany with a background in engineering (B.Eng. at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and M.Eng. at McGill University, Canada). Naoto is currently studying at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany and works internationally for theater productions and in the visual arts. In their artistic work, they question the productive qualities of coding and speculates on new forms, post-coding through neurodiversity and live coding.

 
 
 

 

What is NODE+CODE?

Since 2014, the meetup invites creatives, designers, artists, coders and anyone else interested to a series of events with changing locations and thematic focuses – all related to working with code in design and the arts. We want to build a community of people interested in the creative and critical application of technology in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main.

 

Funding

The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing

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