Simon David Rydén trained as a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and the Juilliard School in New York before transitioning to generative digital art. His visual work has been featured with The Blue Man Group and at Afterlife events, with exhibitions at LOAD Gallery (Barcelona) and Studio 20 (Berlin).

On YouTube as supermarket_sallad, he produces approachable TouchDesigner tutorials covering particles, GLSL shaders, feedback systems, and fluid simulations. Project files are available through his Patreon.