The core team for the hydra community fund consists of
Olivia Jack
Olivia Jack is a programmer and artist who works frequently with open-source software, cartography, live coding, and experimental interfaces. She is the developer of browser-based creative tools including Hydra (live-codable video synthesizer), PIXELSYNTH, and LiveLab (peer-to-peer media router). Her live visual sets explore algorithmic representations of unpredictable and chaotic systems, and writing software as a messy and ephemeral process.
Antonio Roberts
(he/him)
Antonio Roberts is an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK, working primarily with video, code, and sound. He is critically engaged with the themes surrounding network culture and in his practice explores how technology continues to shape ideas of creation, ownership, and authorship. As a performing visual artist and musician he utilises live coding techniques to demystify technology and reveal its design decisions, limitations, and creative potential.
For each round of community funding we invite external judges.
[MONRHEA]
Wanjiru Ngure, [MONRHEA], is to be considered one of the most authentic entities of expression to emerge from Nairobi, Kenya. Their creative and experimental ability to draw out the deepest part of oneself, or better yet, sending you there, has her categorized as a talented creator and curator in the underground scene both here in Nairobi and beyond. They run a community called BYTE, that is creating a platform to share the world of music coding done through Sonic Pi, a code based music creation and performance tool. BYTE explores various avenues to experience the coding world to encourage creators and listeners to get involved. [MONRHEA]’s coding performances also incorporate visualization using Hydra video synth creating immersive audio-visual experiences.
Contact
Please contact us at hydra.video.synth@gmail.com with any questions :)