AAA games: art, activism and agency. A view on Experimental Game Design with societal impact
8. Juni 2021, 12.00 bis 13.00 Uhr ONLINE on Microsoft Teams
Invited Lectures Series on Critical Data mit Margarete Jahrmann
Meeting Link: ONLINE on Microsoft Teams
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Abstract: On the social impact of Game Design
As an artist I come from the field of medial arts with elements of play with medial systems, it has always been a concern of mine to make the critical analysis of the systems used a part of the content of the work. From the beginning I have applied this to my work with games, starting from the first game mods to the current project of critical play with neurointerfaces as a means of artistic expression. This statement focuses on the significance of play as a cultural asset. It is essential that experimental games advance the "emancipation" of players to better understand (global) challenges. Play is experienced as an instrument of problem solving, finding the right questions and respecting ambiguity and complexity of a world.
The presentation includes a LIVE PLAY of AAA_ThunderPlay.
neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at/blog/aaa-thunderplay
Margarete Jahrmann is an artist, researcher and activist game designer, founded Area7lab and Ludic Society and magazine series on experimental game art and ludic interventions. She is Univ.-Prof. in the artistic research PhD program of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and leads since 2020 the Austrian Science Fund FWF research project Neuromatic Game Art: Critical Play with Neurointerfaces. As professor Game Design at the Zurich University of the Arts she developed a focus on Game Art and Neuro-Epistemology experiments with a specific Ludic method. She founded the Ludic Society as arts project, label and international research association on play in society. As internationally exhibiting artist she works with neuroscientists, philosophers and early adopters of technologies, from Augmented Reality to AI and Artivism. f.ex. CIVA Contemporary immersive Arts Festifal Vienna 2021, Parallel Vienna 2020, Amaze Playful media festival 2018, AIL Arts Innovation Lab gallery 2020, Center of Advanced studies LMU Munich and Art|Sci Center Los Angeles (CNSI) 2019. Also check the LS playbook VOID book, premiered at the founding place of Dada, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich. Currently she is working on a series of artistic research experiments in relation to neurointerfaces and play, fostering a new form of critical play with neurointerfaces.
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