Day 1
Aggregate
The crowd as signal. Capture, measure and translate an audience's presence into sound and light.
Work of the day: Cercle 01, a zellige rosette that only closes when the audience forms a circle.
Open day 1
The story only exists if the audience forms a circle
In the public square, the halqa is the circle that forms around the storyteller. HALQA turns it into a creative principle: the group — its bodies, its gestures and its decisions — drives the work.
The masterclass follows three regimes of collective interaction. Each day ends with a playable work, built step by step in an interactive course, using the camera, keyboard, touch or simulated voices.
Day 2
Coordination
Playing together. Synchronise, share roles, pass the baton — with a partner machine.
Work of the day: Cercle 02, a khatim that can only be traced with two hands.
Open day 2
Day 3
Negotiation
The dramaturgy of disagreement. Vote, pull, arbitrate, then write a fiction that needs the dispute.
Work of the day: Cercle 03, a tale in four scenes written by the square's disagreement.
Open day 3
Formats
| Format | Duration | For whom |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture-demo | 1h30 | symposia, study days, festivals |
| Short masterclass | 1 day | art schools, labs, cultural companies |
| Full masterclass | 3 days | schools, professional training, cultural venues |
| Residency-workshop | 5 days | creation venues, Institut Français |
Audience: artists, scenographers, stage managers, designers, students in digital and performing arts, researchers. No coding prerequisite; groups mix profiles.
Speaker
Kamel Ghabte, French-Moroccan digital artist, 20+ years of practice and 52 international festivals. ADAF Award (Athens Digital Arts Festival), 1st Prize FIAV Casablanca 2020.
He teaches creative coding, interaction design and natural multimodal interfaces at ESD Bordeaux. The method is developed in his book HALQA — Collective Interaction as Interface (2026).