CAPHE — Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment

Results in brief

Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment

The CAPHE project is aimed towards fostering artistic collaboration and community engagement across various global locales, with a dedicated push on notion of hybrid environment as milieu of the action. What fuels the CAPHE project? C is for Community of communication We believe that new communication channels and platforms, emerging on basis of VR and AR technologies, can contribute to better, more inclusive and sustainable society. A is for Social Art Art is not just a neutral term. Art can be a tool of empowerment for excluded minorities. Art can change our communities for good. P is for Participation through process-based approach We start from basics. Always work with communities, for communities. H is for Hybrid experiences (AR, VR, MX) Extended Reality technologies create a totally new aspect of experiencing. E is for Environment and Education We investigate area of Extended Reality as environment of interaction. We educate to better use this technology for benefit of future generations. CAPHE joins Partners with different cultural backgrounds, who cooperate creatively in construing and structuring Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environments that serve as welcoming platforms for participation, community, creativity, critical reflection, education, and art. These environments are hybrid, that is they combine physical, and virtual layers. The project team researches on interactions between communities, art creation and distribution, and education taking place in these environments. We also realize art exhibitions and performances in physical and VR spaces.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The aim of the project is to investigate and perform the possibility of elaboration of an enhanced model of interaction and somatic participation between artists and communities, coming from different cultural backgrounds, both traditional and virtual ones in hybrid environment, including physical, and virtual layers. By this mean we will develop the concept of VR Participation, building the integrated framework for VR-mediated consensus and community in a form of an aesthetic dialogue, geared toward layering and investigating aesthetic experiences through VR technology. The project’s physical mobilities will be directed towards sharing knowledge and proficiency in different fields such as humanities, arts, technology, and education, focused on the research on communities, arts, and participation in contemporary, digital time in countries involved in the project: Poland, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Kenya. Apart of activities realized during the mobilities: workshops, trainings, field research and interviews, the cooperation between partners in the CAPHE project will be continued during the whole project in the virtual space, online. This will be realized with use of modes of telepresence, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies such as the AltspaceVR platform. The project’s team will be engaged and will operate in experimental, hybrid environment to stimulate and research the process of social-artistic interaction. Our process will engage artists, communities, and researchers from six countries, and on two continents (Europe and Africa). The countries are located on the South of Europe: Portugal, Italy, and Greece, and North and South from this line: Poland and Kenya. This gives a broad spectrum of contexts.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI · KrakowCoordinatorPoland
CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA GIACOMO PUCCINI - LA SPEZIA · LA SPEZIAItaly
ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON · ATHINAGreece
FACULDADE DE BELAS ARTES DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA · LisboaPortugal
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY · NairobiKenya
MIASTOPRACOWNIA SP. Z O.O. · KRAKOWPoland
NARRATOLOGIES I.K.E. · KALLITHEAGreece
OPERA NETWORK ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE · FirenzeItaly
POLISH UNIVERSITY ABROAD · LondonUnited Kingdom
POLSKIE TOWARZYSTWO ESTETYCZNE · KrakowPoland

CAPHE · Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment

Results in brief

Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment

Project objective

Participants

Links