New Coordinates for Creative Hybrid Space-Experiences. Book of Abstracts

"New Coordinates for Creative Hybrid Space-Experiences. Book of Abstracts" is the publication created at the onset of the research project focused on Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environments for the Symposium that took place at the Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya on February 15-17, 2023. The publication introduces topics researched by project members from different institutions and takes up topics of impossible-to-overestimate importance for humanity in the times of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Virtual reality, augmented reality, and similar advanced digital, experiential environments—where human creativity is changing not only our modes of perception but also providing material for creation and language for communication—constitute territories where cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic reflection has yet to adequately define categories, principles, and criteria for evaluating phenomena. The hybrid territories are ruled by their technological capacities. They reflect and react to different versions of habitus with which we humans train them. The corresponding co-creative transformation involves more than just individual inputs, as they operate differently in different professional, demographic, cultural, and economic contexts. In-depth analyses, based on theoretical or empirical study, presented in the publication lay the foundations for a model of interaction and somatic participation between artists and communities in creative hybrid spaces – including their physical and virtual layers and their interrelation – that are being developed as “coordinates” throughout the project.