In this workshop, the screen becomes your canvas and code becomes your brush. You’ll sculpt light and motion in real time, crafting custom tools to draw with—not by hand, but by writing instructions that bring images to life.

Using paint.stx, a playful drawing environment built on Hydra and p5.js, you’ll create generative visuals that shift and evolve as you write. Then, you’ll gather these ephemeral experiments and transform them into digital zines — living sketches captured in time.

No coding experience is needed: just curiosity, imagination, and a willingness to explore new forms of expression.

• Gain practical experience with live-coding using Hydra
• Develop the ability to create custom brushes through code
• Acquire techniques for creating generative visuals and patterns
• Add a new creative coding skill to your artistic or design practice

• Introduction to Hydra: Overview of the live-coding environment, its core syntax and capabilities
• Exploring paint.stx: Tool overview including development background and interface functionality
• Live-coding custom brushes: Creating brushes with customizable effects and interactive sliders
• Sharing and feedback: Group showcase of creations followed by technique discussion
• Q&A and wrap-up

Siiri Tännler is a Swiss-Finnish graphic designer and art director with a decade of experience, currently based between New York City and Switzerland. Her practice focuses on concept-driven design systems that span print and digital environments, taking form as books, environmental graphics, exhibitions, visual identities, and websites. She has collaborated with renowned design studios and led projects for cultural institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as well as publishers such as Brooklyn Rail, Primary Information, Phaidon, and Rizzoli. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in Digital Communication Environments at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.

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