Neuromatic Game Art – artistic reflexive documentation of a research question…. With the artistic mission statement on the Project Neuromatic Game Art — Critical Play with Neurointerfaces, we are part of the 2020 edition of the Forum Alpbach Showcase of Die Angewandte Vienna, selected artistic research projects. Thanks for this opportunity!
August 2020: Forum Alpbach, Digital Showcase artistic research, Die Angewandte
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Campus Re:publica Berlin 2020, NEURAL NET PLAY, Margarete Jahrmann, Stefan Glasauer/6. September- 4. Oktober.
Netz Werke – Eine Ausstellung zum Leben im Netz
Berlin-Neukölln (Ziegrastraße 1, 12057 Berlin) die interaktive Ausstellung “Netz Werke”. https://campus.re-publica.com/de/page/netz-werke-ausstellung-zum-leben-im-netz Öffnungszeiten: 6. September bis 4. Oktober 2020, sonntags bis donnerstags, jeweils von 16 bis 20 Uhr, EINTRITT FREI
Neural Net Play – AI Emotion Classification Play
come ´n play 
lay down & get classified 
relax & reflect
Ein künstliches neuronales Netz wird als abstrakte Oberfläche / GUI auf Bildschirm 1 visualisiert. Die Spieler*innen liegen auf einer Untersuchungsliege. Das Spiel ist passiv; hebelt Game Mechaniken aus: es genügt zu liegen und zu lächeln – oder nicht! Bildschirm 2: Glücklichkeits-Faktor. In dem Moment, in dem das Grinsen schwindet, weil man erkennt, dass man klassifiziert wird, sinkt der Glücklichkeits-Faktor. Bildschirm 3: Alle erfassten Gesichter werden von der AI so gezeigt, wie sie trainiert wurden: mit Geschlecht und tierischer Voreingenommenheit, ein verzerrter tiefer Traum – als glückliches Äffchen! Die Künstler*innen hinter dem Spiel sind Margarete Jahrmann und Stefan Glasauer.
(2021) DAS LUDISCHE MANIFEST. DIE KUNST DES SPIELS UND IHRE GESELLSCHAFTLICHE WIRKUNG./ LUDICS. THE ART OF PLAY AND SOCIETAL IMPACT/
This papers is published in the ZHdK Book: DDE Publikation – Franke Björn (ed.) 2020: Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design, Zurich. (English und Deutsch in einem pdf).
ABSTRACT
The Art of Play and Societal Impact is introduced in this manifesto as a tool for commenting on and intervening in social and political questions and the challenges of climate change. The design of play objects has an impact on everyday life in society, simply through the presence and daily use of play in relation to our social life and behaviour, has an impact on our daily lives. The impact factor of ludic objects is not measured, but present in discursive reflections in the field of artistic research.
The ludic as a method for rule-driven design elucidates states of play, combines free play, games and rules of play. Conceptual ludic art explores rules of play, systems of investigation and knowledge acquisition through game mechanics, as well as the fundamentals of perception, experience and cognition. The theory and practice of artistic research are concerned with ludic methods of approaching art and science, and epistemic things as insights achieved through arts objects as research vehicles.
Ludic objects are artefacts that trigger discourse and the application of certain rules of research. They constitute an interplay of art and knowledge. Finally, ludic, experimental research games are tied to a certain playful approach toward serious, rule-driven research. Following a ludic method introduces a new trope to artistic research.
Speculative games provide an element of role play, and use performance elements in order to understand the role of the artist, the researcher and the designer. The ludic objective is the idea of playful movement in thinking. It is informed by technologies and cultural techniques of insight, as well as theories, experiments and philosophical conceptions that are connected to the perceived, conceived and lived world.
(English und Deutsch in einem pdf) http://www.margaretejahrmann.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/manifestos_200910_jahrmann.pdf
Epicycles Blindfolded Game/ Tate Gallery London
Moving Humans at the Tate Modern
TATE EXCHANGE _MOVING HUMANS,
Tate Gallery London 21.-22. June 2019
Trajectory perception – a collective experiment
Stefan Glasauer, Alexander Knorr, Isabelle Garzorz, Margarete Jahrmann
A Poster of the preliminary findings of the experiment was presented at the BCCN UCL Navigation Retreat 2019, Tuzing, Germany.
BCCN/UCL Navigation retreat 2019 | 03 – 05 July 2019, Tutzing
DOWNLOAD the Poster here: 04_Poster_Tate … “Trajectory Perception_ A collective Experiment”.
Further outcomes will be sculptural….
Live sonification of emotional states/AI – Ludic Rulez!
NEWly found footage: TnX dear friend! Unseen and unpublished videos of the 2020 AIL live performance of different emotional states (Thomas Wagensommerer Sound patch, Stefan Glasauer live data from emotional states, Margarete Performance on examination couch and game mechanics) classified by an Deep Dream AI – “I want to see HAPPY monkeys” ! Tnx to Eva Fischer for the opportunity to show at the Post Digital exhibition… and perform according to Ludic ruleZ!
2020-2021 #NeuromaticBainwaveBroadcast
Brainwave broadcasting in the Age of Social Distancing- since March 2020
JOIN IN DAILY 7pm (First series of Neuromatic Game Art Experiments, online, due to C-19)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRuETt9HjkgXfn17ao8pCRg?view_as=subscriber
Media Art Award of the City of Vienna 2020 //Medienkunstpreis der Stadt Wien 2020
//25 May 2020: In her work, the internationally renowned media artist and art theorist, who has been Professor of Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2019, uses code, language and fashion for media art works and games in urban space.
//25. Mai 2020: Die international anerkannte Medienkünstlerin und Kunsttheoretikerin, die seit 2019 Professorin für Artistic Research an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien ist, setzt in ihrem Werk Code, Sprache und Mode für medienkünstlerische Arbeiten und Spiele im urbanen Raum ein.
Kickoff of the artistic research project */Neuromatic Game Art: Critical play with neurointerfaces/* at AIL Online
http://www.ailab.at/archive/neuroflower-game
Including a demonstration of the #NEUROMATIC BRAINWAVE BROADCAST series, performed ongoing since 3rd April 2020 & Pre_launch of the activist brainwave inversion game#01: NeuroFLOWer…
With members of the Neuromatic research group Vienna/Zurich and guests: Margarete Jahrmann (game art), Ruth Schnell (digital arts), Stefan Glasauer (computational neuroscience), Mark Coeckelbergh (technophilosopy), Johannes Hucek (digital art),Stefan Schmidlin/ Simon Broggi/ Insert Coin Zurich (game design), Charlotta Ruth (artistic research choreography), Thomas Wagensommerer (brainwave sonification), Anna Dobrosovestnova (device philosophy), Zarko Alexsic (neuro art), et al.
special guest: Isabelle Garzorz (experimental neuroscience).
Der Standard Interview: Künstlerisches Spiel mit Gerhirnströmen (Wissenschaft Spezial)
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000117296435/kuenstlerisches-spiel-mit-gehirnstroemen
enjoy the first feature on the new FWF/PEEK artistic research project “Neuromatic Game Art” from May 2020, printed and online in the quality newspaper derStandard.
Special thanks and respect to the author Alois Pumhösl — who really brought all the stars out of our brain data – into a coherent narration…. enjoy (though German, but translation works online 😉
https://www.pressreader.com/austria/der-standard/20200506/281706911849001
research outputs
overview of publications 2020 – <>>>>> list of
