Looks at processes of integration and generation by investigating "mixed reality" arts, which refer to environments and movements that involve the blends, variations and flows of digital media and information systems.

gRig is a group of European artistic and cultural operators collaborating for 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 periphery of fields of knowlege, where different perspectives and approaches can be synthesised into hybrid forms of creative expression. These are hybrids between artistic interventions and scientific experiments, responsive installations and audio-visual performances, films and games and many more. It is on these fuzzy edges that experimental technology and contemporary culture truly amplify each other's potentials. They have found these edges to be the most fertile ground for innovative advances in current artistic practices.

For several years, the gRig partners have worked together, exchanging information and resources; in European projects, informal networks and symposia, working towards a sustainable and extendible conceptual, organisational and technological support structure for artistic expression in hybrid realities. With gRig they formalise their collaboration over a longer timespan, strengthening the bonds between the partners through a joint research, production and presentation programme.

The project started on January 1 2007 and is supported by the EU Culture 2000 programme.