Margarete Jahrmann

Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
Experimental Game Cultures

Skills and Expertise

AssemblageGame ResearchGame DesignInteractive ArtGame TheoryToy DesignPerformanceBrain ResearchAugmented Reality (AR)Electronic MediaInterventionist ArtMedia ArtVirtual Reality (VR)Artistic Director

Address

Rosenbursenstraße 3 (Georg-Coch-Platz 2) - 1.OG
1010 Wien

Contact

E-Mail:: margarete.jahrmann@uni-ak.ac.at
E-Mail (Complementary):: margarete.jahrmann@uni-ak.ac.at
Website:: https://www.margaretejahrmann.net

Curriculum Vitae

Margarete Jahrmann, is a ludic artist and artistic researcher, drawer and writer, full university professor and head of the 2021 newly founded Department EXPERIMENTAL GAME CULTURES at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. As Principal Investigator/lead she launches in the end of 2024 the research project "ROBOPSY. An Artistic Exploration of Collective Memory through Role-Playing with AI Language Models" (2024-2027) funded by WWTF Vienna Science and Technology Fund. 2023 she was able to acquire the Austrian Science Fund FWF supported project "The Psycholudic Approach. Exploring Play for a viable future (2023- 2026) (FWF/PEEK) and led 2021-2023 the international and interdisciplinary project "Neuromatic Game Art: critical play with neurointerfaces" (FWF/ PEEK), also supported fully by the Austria Science Fund. As active artist and writer she regularly publishes and exhibits artworks dealing with play, ludic method and neurosciences. She published 2023 a monograph on "KOPFGELD and other LUDIC EXPERIMENTS" (Eigenverlag/preprint). She hosts the RINGVORLESUNG LUDIC METHOD (public soirées and tea lectures) and curates international game art and research. She supports emerging artists in projects of the Angewandte INTRA program, like in 2024 “NEST. XenoLudic games and nonhuman intelligence (Tamas Pall, HU)” , 2023 "BIOLUDIC LAB" (Georg Tremml, JP) and 2025 "LUDIC SYMOPSIUM" (Simon Huber, A). 2024 she organized a summerschool on SITUATED PLAY in cooperation with the Athens School of arts in Kreta and Merz Academy Stuttgart. The study department was presented at AMAZE Playful Media Festival in Berlin 2024. Jahrmann herself, in her arts builds on drawings of experimental game mechanics and explores experimental systems. Topics are games for/with non-humans, AI, cognitive, emotional and political conditions of a viable world. Her awards include the prestigious prix ars electronica 2003, Berlin transmediale software arts award 2004, and the Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna 2020 to re-play AI, facial recognition and neuro-interfaces as LUDIC OBJECTS. Selection of Exhibitions 2025 Multiperspectivity. Exhibition Game Show. AIL Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab/ Galerie Wien. 2024/2025 Roland-Rainer Siedlung Pop-Up Show Haus 16. LUDIC CONCEPT Drawings. Conceptual Game Mechanics.(Solo-Show) 2024 ReeperbahnFestival Hamburg: September 18 - 22. TREE [AI]D. Funding Installation for AI supported Klima neutral games. 2024 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei. What is it like to play a tree? Installation/ video. Exhibition: becoming human in post-human times. 2023 RE:Publica Berlin: KOPFGELD currency converter. 2023 AMAZE Playful Media Festival Berlin: A[I] MAZE Ai Installation. 2023 OHO Galerie: AI Labyrinth, full life size labyrinth Installation/Soloshow. 2022 Parallel Vienna, Kopfgeld Intro. 2022 Havana Bienal de la Habana: Odradek/ NUBES MENTAL de Juego. 2022 [Artificial Museum] Mindworm: Narrenturm. Augmented reality piece. 2021 Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Hybrid Play Festival: Mindclouds Collective stage play 2021 Vienna Artweek/ Medienwerstatt: Pink Noise Brain Jam session 2021 CIVA Contemporary immersive Arts Festival Vienna/ AAA ThP Massive Multiplayer Online Game for EEG and non humans 2020 Parallel Vienna: Verräumlichtes Game: Installation mit Gesichtserkennung zum DIskriminierungs Bias. 2019 Art|Sci Center Los Angeles (CNSI): Augmented Reality Installation AAA 2018 Amaze Playful media festival Berlin: Neuroflow Game Release und Arcade Spielkonsole mit Emotive. 2017 AIL Galerie Handelskai Wien: AI Game mit Gesichtserkennung. I want to see Happy Monkeys. 2017 Ars electronica Linz: Transparente AI Installation. I want to see Angry monkeys. (Die Arbeiten wurden in unterschiedlichen Kooperationen erstellt: Neuromatic Game Art Group/ Area7Lab/ Ludic Society u.a.) https://www.margaretejahrmann.net https://neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at https://psycholudic.uni-ak.ac.at https://experimentalgamecultures.uni-ak.ac.at

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- - NEUROMATIC PLAY - KOPFGELD AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS (Monograph), (author), Wien, Österreich, 2023
  - Ludic Society Magazine - series of 6 magazines, issue 1-6 (Monograph), (author, editor), Plymouth, England, Vereinigtes Königreich, Zürich (Schweiz), 2016
  - VOID BOOK - Spielregelbuch (Monograph), (author, editor), Wien, Österreich, 2016
- - The Neuromatic Game Art lab: critical play - with AI & neuro interfaces Vademecum (FWF/PEEK/ AR 581) (Article), (author), Wien, Österreich, 2023
  - NFT/UID/UBIK im Metaverse: eine ludisch-künstlerische Erforschung. - (Article), (author), 2022
  - Critical Art with Brain-computer Interfaces. - Insights from Neuromatic Game Art Project. (Article in Journal With Citation Index (Peer Reviewed)), (author), 2021
  - LUDICS: THE ART OF PLAY AND SOCIETAL IMPACT. - Not at your Service. (Article in Journal With Citation Index (Peer Reviewed)), (author), Basel-Landschaft, Schweiz, 2021
  - Expanded Game Art and Neurointerfaces as Means of Produsage. - (Article), (author), 2021
  - RFID Tagging Games. A Plymouth for Pl/a/ymouth. Situated Play. - (Article), (author), Japan, 2007
  - Post-Monarchy CoPlayers in Tokyo - (Article), (author), Serbien, 2007
  - Play Fetish - (Article), (author), Schweiz, 2007
  - Ludic Manifesto - (Article), (author), Österreich, 2007
- - Ludic Neuro-Performances: - An Approach Towards Playful Experiments. (Chapter (Peer-Reviewed)), (author), Zürich, Schweiz, 2024
  - Ludic neuro-performances: An approach towards playful experiments. - An approach towards playful experiments (Chapter (Peer-Reviewed)), (author), Zürich, Schweiz, 2024
  - Kopfgeld - DARK PLAY IN AN AI BASED INDIVIDUALIZED MONEY GAME (Chapter (Peer-Reviewed)), (author), Politischer Bezirk Krems, NO, Austria, Wien, Österreich, 2024
  - KOPFGELD AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS - Outcomes of the Neuromatic Game Art project. (Chapter (Peer-Reviewed)), (author), Wien, Österreich, 2023
  - Ludic Method Ouvroir. Experimenteller FLOW in Kunst und Wissenschaft - xperimenteller FLOW in Kunst und Wissenschaft (Chapter (Peer-Reviewed)), (author), Wien, Österreich, 2023
  - LUDICS: The Art of Play and Societal Impact. - (Chapter (Peer-Reviewed)), (author, editor), Basel-Stadt, Schweiz, 2021
- - CRE|AIID. A brain-alded artistic Image generation game. Chubu University CMSAI International Symposium 2023 - Invited Speaker at Mathematics and Data Science for Expanding Intelligence in Computers and Brains (Conference Paper), (author), 2023
  - FROG Conference Vienna - Dark Play in an AI based individualized money game. (Conference Paper), (author), Wien, Österreich, 2023
  - Nubes Mental. Objeto de Juego. - 14th Biennale de Habana. (Exhibition Catalogue), (author), 2022
  - Multiple Selves as Artist and Instructor - (Conference Proceedings), (author), Paris (Frankreich), 2012
  - KUNST UND KULTUR DER DIGITALEN SPIELE - (Conference Proceedings), (author), Deutschland, 2012
  - Light Image Imagination - (Artistic Book/Catalogue), (author), Wien (Österreich), 2012
  - 2010 Fractal Midsummer night’s Dream, Opera Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland. - (Artistic Book/Catalogue), (author), Werdenberg (Schweiz), 2011
  - 2010 Fractal Midsummer night’s Dream, Opera Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland. - (Artistic Book/Catalogue), (author), Werdenberg (Schweiz), 2011
- The Psycho-Ludic Approach. FWF/PEEK. Grant-DOI 10.55776/AR787 - Exploring play for a viable future (Artistic Research Project), (project lead), 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023
- SPIELEND SAMMELN - (Research Project), (funding, project partner), 2024, 2023
- NEST - XenoLudic games and nonhuman intelligence (Research Project), (project lead), 2024, 2023
- Neuromatic Game Art. FWF PEEK. AR 581 - Critical Play with Neurointerfaces as New Form of Media Art. (FWF PEEK Project), (project lead), 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
- Biological Interfaces, Ludic Cultures and Non-human Agencies. - Games of/in/with/beyond Life. (Artistic Research Project), (project lead), 2023, 2022
- Games in Concert - Collaborative music making in a gaming environment. (Artistic Research Project), (project lead), 2018, 2017, 2016
- EU Forschungsprojekt TEF "Technology, Exchange and Flow" - (Focus of Activity), (project lead), 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
- Medienkunstpreis der Stadt Wien 2020 - (Prize), (winner), 2020
- Leverhulme Post Doc research award, University of Plymouth, UK - (Prize), (winner), Plymouth, UK (GB u. Nordirland), 2011
- EU-research project award, Humanities in the European Research Aerea (HERA) - (Prize), (winner), Wien (Österreich), 2010
- AI Labyrinth - Ein räumliches System Zustands Spiel (Exhibition), (artist), Offenes Haus Oberwart, Oberwart, BU, Österreich, 2024, 2023
- Mindworm - Narrenturm. Augmented reality piece. Part of Permanent Collection of the [Artificial Museum] (Exhibition), (artist), Wien, Österreich, 2024, 2023, 2022
- I want to see Happy Monkeys - Ai Installation and Game performance (Exhibition), (artist), 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
- ‚Artificial Intuition‘, METAVERSE des Digital Francisco Carolinum - I want to see Happy Monkeys in Metaverse (Exhibition), (artist), FC - Francisco Carolinum, Linz, OO, Österreich, 2023
- Margarete Jahrmann & Talos Kedl - ODRADEK (Exhibition), (artist), Leoben, ST, Austria, 2023
- KOPFGELD. LUDIC EIGENFACE CURRENCY CONVERTER GAME - RE:PUBLICA Berlin (Exhibition), (artist), Berlin, Deutschland, 2023
- Neural Net Play – AI Emotion Play - Leben im Netz Re:Publica (Exhibition), (artist), 2020
- AAA PROFILER— SUBLIMINAL GAME ART - AR Twitter Game (Exhibition), (artist), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2019
- Cybernaut Sail - (Group Exhibition), (artist), Moskau (Österreich), 2013
- Play& Prosume: Technology, Exchange and Flow, März 2013, Kunsthalle Karlsplatz W - (Solo Exhibition), (artist), Wien (Österreich), 2013
- Play& Prosume: Technology, Exchange and Flow - (Group Exhibition), (curator), Wien (Österreich), 2013
- Ausstellung - (Group Exhibition), (artist), Bregenz (Österreich), 2012
- Propaganda/ Pervasive Prosumer Play - (Group Exhibition), (curator), Wien (Österreich), 2012
- PARALLEL VIENNA – KOPFGELD - AI, Haut, Print-Out Fahnen (Exhibition), (artist), Wien Stadt, WI, Österreich
- ToyGenosonic/ Enter Act / Kunstmuseum Aaros / Aarhus / Denmark - (Exhibition), (artist)
- [A]I MAZE. Das Spielerische AI Labyrinth. - Installation (Exhibition), (artist)
- - AI Playing Matters: Margarete Jahrmann - AI, Deep Play& deep language model games... a start! (Guest Lecture), (organiser/management, lecturer), Basel-Stadt, Schweiz, 2023
  - Digital government - citizens and public authorities in a global data economy (Teaching), (lecturer), Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich, 2023
  - AI Labyrinths, mean Eigenfaces, Ludic Currency, Zero Action und Aktivismus im künstlerischen Spiel - Learning from/in and/or with Experimental Game Cultures Vienna (Lecture Series), (lecturer), 2023
  - Spiel gegen die Regeln - Communis Kulturtag 2023 der Pädagogischen Hochschule der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (Guest Lecture), (lecturer), Bezirk Brugg, AG, Switzerland, 2023
- Symposium: Bridging Bodies, Technology, Theory, and AI for Civic Resistance - cooperation of EXPERIMENTAL GAME Cultures/ University of Applied Arts Vienna and Academy for Fine Arts Vienna, Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices/IBK. (Symposium), (organiser/management), Wien, Österreich, 2023
- New Ways Of Staging Part II/CIVA/ Belvedere21 - LUDIC PRACTICE (Key Note), (lecturer), Belvedere 21, Wien, Österreich, 2024
- Experimental Game Cultures beyond Ludic Biedermeier! - DIGITAL BIEDERMEIER (Key Note), (lecturer), 2023
- Creative Days Vienna - How Museums bring Digital to life (Speech), (lecturer), 2023
- Hybrid Ludic Assemblages - ars electronica Expanded Animation: Games & Art (Speech), (lecturer), Ars Electronica Center, Linz, OO, Austria, 2022
- Was sind Experimental Game Cultures? - (Key Note), (lecturer), 2021
- games and Culture - (Presentation), (presentation), Kosice (Slowakei), 2013
- Urban Games Ready-Played - (Speech), (lecturer), Zürich (Schweiz), 2013
- Urban Art & Exhibition Games - (Speech), (lecturer), Dänemark, 2013
- Exhibition Game Conceptions - (Speech), (lecturer), GB u. Nordirland, 2013
- 2nd European Immersive Education Summit - (Speech), (lecturer), Paris (Frankreich), 2012
- NEXT LEVEL GameArt - (Speech), (lecturer), Köln (Deutschland), 2012
- PROJECT SCIENCE FASHION - (Speech), (lecturer), Wien (Österreich), 2012
- Game Art - The work of Margarete Jahrmann as game artist. Keynote - (Key Note), (lecturer), Berlin (Deutschland), 2012
- Blitzplay. Urban Game/ Nintendo DS Modification - (Presentation), (presentation), Norwegen, 2007
- Play in Public Space. Pong Dress - (Presentation), (presentation), Deutschland, 2007
- Mythos Pong. Pong Dress - (Presentation), (presentation), Schweiz, 2007
- Sex and the Game Console - (Presentation), (presentation), Russ. Föderation, 2007
- Evening of the Ludic Society. DEAF Festival Rotterdam - (Presentation), (presentation), Niederlande, 2007
- Social Hacking. Commissioned art work at Plymouth Art Centre. - (Presentation), (presentation), GB u. Nordirland, 2007
- AAA Thunder Play - ARG ALT ARTIVISM THUNDER PLAY (Game), (artist), Online, 2021
- - Jury Mitglied für European Interactive TV Conference series, Como, Italy. - (Expert Function), (jury (competition)), Como (Italien), 2013
  - Jury Mitglied Games Content Award Vienna, ZIT - (Expert Function), (jury (competition)), Wien (Österreich), 2013
  - Assessment Committee Professor Media Design, University of Aalborg - externe Berufungs-/Habilitationskommission (Expert Function), (chair), Aalborg (Dänemark), 2013
  - Jury BMUKK media arts award/ emerging arts award 2010 - (Expert Function), (advisory board), Wien (Österreich), 2009
- - Wir haben Herz - Wir haben Herz. Programme on Austrian sponsored films and advertisement (Event), (contribution), Wien (Österreich), 2013
  - Play and Prosume. Vorträge, Screenings und Diskussionen zu aktuellen Strategien - (Series of Events), (director/administrator), Wien (Österreich), 2012
- GameZ Festival Zurich - (Festival), (artistic director), Zürich (Schweiz), 2013
- NEUROMATIC CHESS MADNESS - EXPERIMENTAL GAME release (Performance/Live Art), (artist), Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich, Wien, Österreich, 2022
- Pink Noise Brain Jam Session - EEG Mind Reading Performance, Vienna Art Week (Performance/Live Art), (artist), Wien, Österreich, 2021
- ZERO ACTION IN THE SAVINGS BANK - Performative EEG Hyperscan, experiment on brain synchronicity (Performance/Live Art), (artist), Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
- - Sema Code Dress - (Television Programme), (mention), Amsterdam (Niederlande), 2009
- Nubes Mental. MIND CLOUDS - clearing in times of war & peace - Beitrag bei der 14th Bienal de la Habana (Installation), (artist, contributor), Centro Habana, CH, Kuba, 2023
- CODE_ COAT - (Sculpture), (artist), New Dehli (Indien), 2013
- Exhibition Game - (Sculpture), (artist), Wien (Österreich), 2013
- BIOLUDIC LAB LAUNCH - Hackteria Microgalactic Space Invasion (Workshop), (organiser/management), Wien, Österreich, 2024
- Kunst – Spiel, Kunst – Werk, Spiel – Kunst (non-objectivistic work concepts in game art) - DIGRA 23 Digital Games Research Association (Workshop), (organiser/management), Sevilla, AN, Spain, 2023