GRIG - Guild for mixed reality integrators & generators
GRIG project site on research mediation
Keywords
mixed reality, electronic art, research rhetoric, generative, articulation
Overview
We are a group of European artistic and cultural operators creating & researching mixed reality works that intertwine digital media & physical materials, objects & spaces.
Aims
In GRIG, InterMedia works with project partners on two aspects:
1) online research 'rhetorics' and mediation of mixed reality arts in an interdisciplinary European level project via wiki-based technologies
2) practice-based arts research into mixed reality arts as a domain of digital design and artistic expression and the roles of participants and publics therein.
Generating inspiring and playful situations in this reality requires skills from a variety of artistic, technological and scientific disciplines. For several years the gRig partners have worked together, exchanging information and resources; in European projects, informal networks and symposia, working towards a sustainable and extendible conceptual, organisational and technological support structure for artistic expression in hybrid realities. With gRig we will to formalise our collaboration over a longer time-span, strengthening the bonds between the partners through a joint research, production and presentation programme.
Methods
Practice-based methods now well-established in the domain of art, design - and especially electronic art - will be applied. As a part of research into digital design that is part of InterMedia, we will refer to participatory and iterative methods in a wider emergent and ecological design process.
Partners
FoAM (Belgium), The Interactive Institute (Sweden), InterMedia (Norway), KIBLA (Slovenia), Nadine (Belgium), and Time's Up (Austria).
Period of Duration
November 2006-November 2009.
Outcomes
The project will produce three mixed reality art works, a multi-partner process-driven website, mixed modes of academic publishing and formal articles and chapters. The intention is to also collaborate on publications and build knowledge across sub-projects and varying practices and conceptual frames.
Publications & presentations:
Kuzmanovic, M. (in press). 'Triggers are for guns; reality is continuous'. In Morrison, A. (Ed.) Inside Multimodal Composition. Hampton Press: Cresskill.
Morrison, A. Sem, I. & Havnør, M. (in press). 'Behind the wallpaper: performativity in mixed reality arts'. In Morrison, A. (Ed.) Inside Multimodal Composition. Hampton Press: Cresskill.
Morrison, A. & Westvang, E. (in press). 'Designing for actionable interpretations: reactive and responsive artifacts in discourses of multimodal embodiment'. In Morrison, A. (Ed.) Inside Multimodal Composition. Hampton Press: Cresskill.
In progress:
- article on proximity and mixed reality arts (for Digital Creativity journal, with Interactive Institute, Swden)
- article on online project based research mediation (InterMedia, for Leonardo journal)
- local networking on mixed reality arts is being established.
Related projects
InterMedia: (Mixed reality arts - TAPET, EXTENDED+, KARAKURI); (Research rhetoric: BALLECTRO, DOCUDANCING, DESIGNING DESIGN, TRANSACTIONS).
Prior project on mixed reality arts: TRG -Trans Reality Generators
Funding
gRIG is funded by the EU Culture 2000 Programme. The project leader is Maja Kuzmanovic of fo.am in Belgium.
Image of EU Culture 2000 programme to appear here.
