Works and main achievements during first two years of the CAPHE project:
- HELLO AVATARS workshops series. The workshops were held in Kenya, Greece and in between mobilities, including participation of, both, CAPHE consortium members and external communities. The series of workshops taking place in Academia Electronica facility located on Spatial.io platform and other environments created by CAPHE participants, ease and explain first steps needed to participate in immersive, hybrid environments for arts, education and communities
- NEW COORDINATES FOR CREATIVE HYBRID SPACE-EXPERIENCES. The international symposium held at Kenyatta University, Nairobi 16-17 of February 2023. The symposium gathered participants from Europe and Africa and provided fruitful debate on futures of hybrid (physical & digital) spaces of experiencing
- VR OPERA EXPERIENCE ROOM. The revolutionary series of hybrid operas (was developed exclusively within the project, and performed In Nairobi, Naxos, Athens and Florence. The operas are performed both in physical and digital environments and thanks to the specially designed, digital scenography and use of VR headsets, offers possibility of deep, immersive experience for audience
- VR and AR CREATION workshops. Series of workshops and trainings for both, CAPHE consortium members and outside communities, held by CAPHE designers, architects, sculptors, drawers and other experts in Kenya, Greece, Italy and Portugal, in quest to provide accessible tools for daily VR and AR content creation and professional artistic activity. The workshops blend use of technologies promotion with social and gender awareness
- AI IN ART research. Seminars, conference and publication series on artificial intelligence and artistic participation (2023-2024)
- XR FESTIVAL during the mobility period in italy, Florence, (June, 2024)) a Hybrid platform for the multidisciplinary dialogue among communities, carried out for one month long with workshops and lectures, culminating in the participatory and collaborative design and creation of 3 prototypes of XR artistic case studies, XR Art Exhibitions and Video Immersive Event
- CONFERENCE ON ART: Enhancing Artistic Experience in Hybrid Environments A series of conferences and workshops dedicated to exploring innovative approaches to artistic creation and performance in hybrid and immersive environments. La Spezia 15-17 May 2024
- XR TOURS for tangible art objects, during which CAPHE team developed an unique AR Hunts toolkit, which includes an Augmented Reality open-source technological framework, technical graphic design guidelines for AR markers, city-mapping methodology, and methodologies for measuring user engagement, both qualitative and quantitative. This toolkit aims to present tangible art objects in the real world by using AR technology to blend digital and physical materialities
