People
Head of Department: Margarete Jahrmann Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil.
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 CULTURE at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. As PI she launches 2023 The Psycholudic Approach (FWF/PEEK) and lead 2021-2023 the interdisciplinary project Neuromatic Game Art: critical play with neurointerfaces (FWF/ PEEK), both funded by the Austria Science Fund. Especially with the neuromatic project she created a series of artworks dealing with play, ludic method and neurointerfaces. She publishes and curates international game art exhibitions and supports artists and researchers in projects such as 2023-2024 “NEST. XenoLudic games and nonhuman intelligence” with Tamás Páll Hollow Group. Currently, she curates international exhibitions with students for AMAZE and hosts international Ludic Method Soirées with students and international speakers. In her arts she explores experimental systems, AI, cognitive, emotional and political conditions of games, world and society. Play is her central principle. Her awards include the prestigious prix ars electronica for interactive art in 2003, the Berlin transmediale software arts award in 2004, and the Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna in 2020. In her collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic practice, she developed a specific ludic method for artistic research and arts. In playful installations she explores the human and non- human, cognitive, emotional and political conditions of games, world and society. Her artistic focus is on performance and installation pieces that explore AI, facial recognition and neuro-interfaces in play as a central principles.
Staff
Antonie Bernadova, Stud. Ass.
Thomas Brandstetter, Univ.-Lekt., Projektmitarb., Mag. Dr.
Thomas Brandstetter, Univ.-Lekt., Projektmitarb., Mag. Dr.
Clara Hirschmanner, Univ.-Ass. M.A., B.A.
Simon Huber, Projektmitarb., Mag.Phil., Dr.phil
Simon Huber, Projektmitarb., Mag.Phil., Dr.phil
Ivan Jakaric, Projektmitarb. Dipl.-Ing.
Louise Linsenbolz, Projektmitarb., BSc.
Georg Luif, Univ.-Lekt. Projektmitarb., Mag.art. MFA
Stefan Maier, Projektmitarb., Dip.-Ing.
Barbi Markovic, Projektmitarb., Mag.phil.
Max Moswitzer, Univ.-Lekt., Projektmitarb.
Fabian Navarro, Projektmitarb., BA
Jogi Neufeld, Univ.-Lekt.
Thomas Wagensommerer, Sen.Art., Projektmitarb. Dipl.-Ing. MA., BA., BSc.
Students
Johanna Arco
Anna Balázs-Csiki
Vincent Behrens
Antonie Bernadova
Aziz Duque
Alexandra Gašparovičová
Gökçe Göbüt
Martin Gius
Alexander Hackl
Mert Hadimlioğlu
Adrian Haim
Yuer Han
Tamás Hegyi
Ivan Jakaric
Chiara Kanya
Sebastian Konzett
Evgeniia Kozlova
Martin Krammer
Litto
Stefan Maier
Vladimir Nadein
Masao Ono
Laura Pega
Eperke Remetei-Filep
Jakob Sam
Janine Scheer-Erb
Catherine Spet
Sophia Stögerer
En Su
Nikola Supukovic
Boie Thomsen
Lea van Hall
Alejandro Villaseñor Rodriguez
Miro Wallner
Alumni
Wassily Bartuska
Aliya Davletova
Klimentina Hristova
Marlene Mautner
Sebastian Scholz
Maxim Shchapov
Bernhard Staudinger
