Jennifer Merlyn Scherler is a resident in the transmediale 2023 Digital Art Residency programme in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. During the residency, Scherler will develop the research project that's where we found each other, in the same pain – exploring fandom and grief in video games.
Investigating how these online spaces act as sites for collective mourning and emotional labour, their research will examine how fandoms establish beliefs and desires, their processes of commemoration, and their collective endeavour to reminisce and lament.
jury
Doreen A. Ríos, Simone C. Niquille, Sandra Küpper, and Nóra Ó Murchú
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The Digital Art Residency is a cooperation between transmediale and Pro Helvetia. transmediale has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004. with additional funding by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Department Culture.