gRig - Guild for Reality integrators and generators

gRig is a group of European artistic and cultural operators gathered around a mutual purpose; to research and create meaningful situations in hybrid (or mixed) reality, where digital media and physical materials, objects and spaces are increasingly intertwined. Generating inspiring and playful situations in this reality requires skills from a variety of artistic, technological and scientific disciplines. Most complementary collaborations in this context tend to happen on the edges of knowledge-fields, where different perspectives and approaches can be synthesized into hybrid forms of creative expression. Hybrids between artistic interventions & scientific experiments, responsive installations & audio-visual performances, film & games and many more. It is on these fuzzy edges that experimental technology and contemporary culture truly amplify each other's potentials. We have found these edges to be the most fertile ground for innovative advances in current artistic practices.

Duration of the project: November 2006 - October 2009

Partners in the project:
FoAM (Brussels, Belgium)
Time's up (Linz, Austria)
InterMedia (Oslo, Norway)
Interactive Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)
Nadine (Brussels, Belgium)
KID KIBLA (Maribor, Slovenia)

Project is supported as a part of the Culture 2000 program.

The first meeting of the partners took place in the Belgian "mountains" near Thirimont from the 20th till the 24th of November 2006.

- gRig Froesjels, Brussels, 29.10. - 31.10.2009
- Green Food, workshop, 24.5. - 28.5.2009
- Photovoltaics 09, workshop (MMC Kibla, Maribor), 11.5. - 13.5.2009
- Digital Commune VII (Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana), 22.2.2009
- Open Sauces, Brussels (Belgium) - 22.11.2008
- Kiblix festival 2008 - Open code for artistic purposes, 20.10. - 25.10.2008
- Geska Helena Andersson & Robert Brečević (Performing Pictures - Interactive Institute): Extra, Extra Fantastique - exhibition, 14.5. - 3.6.2008
- WORKING THE WEB Workshop, 12.5. - 15.5.2009
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- Kiblix festival 2007 - Open code for artistic purposes, 25. 10. - 27.10.2007