Margarete Jahrmann

Margarete Jahrmann

Margarete Jahrmann is an artist, curator and researcher in activism, urban play & arts with an international record of exhibitions and conferences. Since 2006 she is Professor for Game Design at the University of Arts Zürich and since 2000 Senior Lecturer of Art and Technology at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. AS founder of the arts affiliation Ludic Society she created numerous artworks and edits a magazine. 2010 she gained a Ph.D. at the University of Plymouth, UK with an arts based research dissertation entitled Ludics for a Ludic Society. The Art and Politics of Play under the guidance of Prof. Roy Ascott. In 2013 she created a major Alternate Reality exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna and edited a book under the title Play & Prosume, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Jahrmann has received major media arts awards, such as the distinction in interactive arts, PrixArsElectronica 2003 and the software arts award, transmediale, Berlin 2004.She participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, as 2013 in the Moscow Biennial and exhibited in New Delhi, India, Lalit Kahla with new works on Psychogeographic 3 D prints and sailing duration performances. In 2014 she participated at Akademie der Künste Berlin, Über den Schwindel, exhibited at Wandzeitung Vienna, Steinbrener-Dempf and in Cape Town, South Africa on Serious Fun. 2014 she will also take part in the Center for Storytelling Luzern with a lecture on Identity Players, identity-storys-von-selfie-bis-marke and co-organises the Selfie Game Award #selfiegame14 and a panel on Identity-Play at Walchetum Zurich as part of the gameZfestival.

 

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