Hybridity

In the past few days, I have learned that hybridity is the combination of various media to create a new piece of artwork. Contemporary artists incorporate hybridity in their art by cross breeding two or more elements of a genre to create a new style of art. An example of hybridity would exploring history in the form of video games. Feng Mengbo, a famous Chinese contemporary artist, is well known for this and is also considered to be a video game artist. 

His grand work Long March began as acrylic pieces fusing retro gaming aesthetics with personal memories of the Cultural Revolution and culminated with a playable game on an 80 foot long screen in MoMA. There the player battles through Mao’s much-mythologized “long march” as a Red Army soldier, encountering critiques of communist China’s propaganda campaign.

This art piece depicts the adventures of a fictional Red Army character in a series of “game snapshots” reminiscent of Nintendo’s Super Mario.

After investigating what hybridity is, I would like to incorporate it in my artwork by blending pieces of imagery to create a meaning behind it.
Something that interested me was how well and creative you can be with hybridity, because once you do it, it's like creating a new form or style of art.