This is the title of a publication which covers essays linked with a workshop or more precisely a joint project of KHLim’s Media & Design Academy and art centre Z33, which took place about a year ago at Z33 and is contentwise concted with the MDA research project Hybrid City & the exhibition Place@Space (re) shaping everyday life. 
Unfortunatelly I could not make it at the time, therefore I was happy to read the essays. Editors Rosanne Van Klaveren and Niels Hendriks asked some participants to write a text about (digital) art and hybrid spaces. There is an article about CREW, and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM) reflects on an (changing) types of conversation in a networked society, but especially the articles of Eric Kluitenberg (Public Agency in Hybrid Space - In Search for new forms of public engagement) and Anne Nigten (Doctors have to deal with Aesthetics) drew my attention.
Kluitenberg argues that due to the fragmented landscape of hybrid media, society is changing. I like his metaphore of the ‘warm publics’ which are highly unstable and temporary constellations, mostly organised against subjects.He highlights that the there is a question that is largely left unaddressed: what with the engagement of a wider public in social and political processes? taking into account the technological changes. Discussions take place on different levels and in different spaces at the same time. We have to face a multi-dimentional public space.
Nigten investigates in her paper the way interactive media-art and electronic art is communicated. She looks at it in its broadest sense and illustrates this with two case studies. One investigates engaged interaction with the audience in such a way that virtual and physical environments mix or support each other. Cultuur Lokaal took place in Gouda and looks at new opportunities for collaboration with (in) formal local networks. It’s a collaboration between the Waterwolf laboratories (Haagse Hogeschool lectoraat Society and ICT by Dick Rijken and three cultural institutions in Gouda) and The Patchingzone student team in The Netherlands. The evaluation process confirmed that the proces of patching knowledge and methodologies from diffrerent knowledge fields in a kind of smooth, remix fashion is actually a specialism in its own right.
As the editors note in the afterword that the power of the corporeal presence in any kind of space should not be underestimated (…) Virtual elements are able to strengthen but also to alienate this spatial perception.
