Hydra / Teachable Machine Bootcamp
Our 5th Bootcamp Residency invites Leicester and East Midlands artists to explore live coded visuals with Hydra and interactive AI using Teachable Machine.
New Media Art Club’s Artist Bootcamp Residencies are intensive short-term programmes for artists who want to develop new skills with code, digital media and experimental technologies. Each bootcamp offers structured workshops, mentoring and time to develop new work, leading towards an exhibition or performance opportunity.
For our 5th Bootcamp Residency, we are inviting artists from Leicester and the East Midlands to join us for a two-day programme exploring Hydra, a live coding tool for creating visuals, and Teachable Machine, a lightweight AI framework that can respond to movement, objects, sound or visual change. Together, these tools allow artists and performers to create reactive, real-time visual work using the body, camera and code.
The bootcamp will be led by Flor de Fuego and Naoto Hieda. Flor de Fuego is a digital-craft artist working with programming and live coding to create performative experiences, and is an active collaborator in the Hydra community. Naoto Hieda is a researcher and artist whose work explores coding, movement, neuroqueerness, decolonisation and new forms of collaboration between dancers and technologists.
Our artist residenst were:
Ngo Chun Phoenix Tse is an artist working across moving image, text, installation and lecture performance. His practice explores decolonisation, diasporic experience, technological images and the political histories of cinema. For the bootcamp, he is interested in using live coding and reactive visuals to extend his performance work through gesture, voice and movement.
Jash is an artist working with sound, lens-based media, text and performance. Their practice explores queer identity, diasporic experience, emotional memory and the body as a site of grounding and reflection. Through the bootcamp, they hope to develop a sound-driven audiovisual work using Hydra and Teachable Machine to explore glitch, feedback and queer experience.
Sian is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator based in Derby. Their practice spans 2D, 3D, motion, projection, interactive media and creative technology. They are interested in using the bootcamp to develop reactive visuals and interactive textures for future projection mapping, performance and exhibition projects.