Professionals Programme (2022)
Hybrid Formats: Professionals Programme (2022)
“Hybrid Formats” was an information session held as part of the Professionals Program during the 2022 IMPAKT Festival. In this collaborative session, IMPAKT showcased the steps we have made towards developing successful hybrid formats and focus on the knowledge of different artists who have worked on and with hybrid formats. For this discussion, the focus was on the technical, sociological and psychological aspects of hybridity.
This session consisted of a workshop where we, together with artists from our hybrid experiments and our professional audience, built a glossary for hybrid events, including (but not limited to) format suggestions, interesting readings, different softwares to use, etc. During the discussion about the glossary, the artists gave their input based on the projects they are working on and share from their experience.
Of course, this Professionals Programme session was itself a hybrid format. Participants of the session were able to attend physically in Utrecht during the festival, as well as join remotely via video call. The physical set up in Utrecht consisted of four tables placed in a square formation, with chairs placed on the outside perimeter all facing each other. Four TV screens were placed sunken-in at the centre of the square of tables so that the physical attendees were all able to see the screens. These screens were used to display the shared presentation materials as well as the shared video call. Each participant was also able to use their own laptop to join the chat, or shared digital documentation spaces. (See pictures.)
This Capacity Building Workshop is organised by IMPAKT within the context of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP), co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme.
Make it Participatory
The session was a collaborative information session– as such everyone was both a speaker and a listener. The technical set up was built with this intensely participatory structure in mind.
Cultivate Collectivity
Being able to see everyone, and providing everyone access to the chat at all times meant that everyone could feel the energy of the collaborative writing process.