{"id":812,"date":"2025-10-02T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/?p=812"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:39:38","slug":"hydra-are-back-and-looking-for-new-projects-and-collaborators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/2025\/10\/02\/hydra-are-back-and-looking-for-new-projects-and-collaborators\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydra are back and looking for new projects and collaborators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hydra Museum demo\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktz_iW06c0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We had our first Hydra Media Studio meeting of the year yesterday and are ready to get started on some new collaborative projects.\u00a0 The clip above shows the walk through of the museum we created last year and it&#8217;s on our agenda to upgrade and add new content to this.\u00a0 We also have lots of plans for new projects including games, zines, animations and graphics &#8211; we would love to hear from you if you would like to get involved with the studio or have a project idea.\u00a0 Get in touch at <a href=\"mailto:hydramediastudio@napier.ac.uk\">hydramediastudio@napier.ac.uk <\/a>to find out more or be added to our discord.\u00a0 We meet regularly online and in person so you can be involved as much or as little as you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our first Hydra Media Studio meeting of the year yesterday and are ready to get started on some new collaborative projects.\u00a0 The clip above shows the walk through of the museum we created last year and it&#8217;s on our agenda to upgrade and add new content to this.\u00a0 We also have lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydra-media-studio","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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