Anne Marie Schleiner
| Anne Marie Schleiner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 29, 1970 Providence, Rhode Island U.S. |
| Occupation |
Theorist Educator New Media Artist Performance Artist Hacktivist Scholar Gamer Curator |
Anne-Marie Schleiner (born 1970) is a theorist, an educator, a new media and performance artist, a hacktivist, a scholar, a gamer, and a curator.[1] Her work is focused on gender construction, ludic activism, situationist theory, political power struggles, experimental gaming design theory, urban play, the United States Military, avatar gender reification, the global south, and feminist film theory.
Schleiner's work is influenced by contemporary art, dada, 1970s performance art, net art, and conceptual art.[2]
Early life
Schleiner was born in 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island.[3]
Education
In 1992 Schleiner received her B.A. in studio arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[4] She continued her education by receiving her MFA in computers in fine art from the CADRE Program at San Jose State University[5] Her dissertation, "Ludic Mutation: The Player's Power to Change the Game"[6] was written under the supervision of Professor Dr. Mireille D. Rosello at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and submitted in 2012.
Career
Velvet-Strike, completed in 2002, is a modification to the military simulation game Counter-Strike. This work was created with Brody Condon and Joan Leandre. They invited other gamers to create patches, known as sprays, visual cyber graffiti that users would download, install, and use by shooting the sprays instead of bullets and the protest would then appear in the game.[7] Velvet-Strike was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.[8] In 2003 her work H711 was included in an exhibition at the New Museum.[9]
Teaching
Schleiner currently teaches at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Communications and New Media.[10]
References
- ↑ "Anne-Marie Schleiner". Video Data Bank. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ "Interview with Anne-Marie Schleiner". Rhizome. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ "Anne-Marie Schleiner". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ Stalbaum, Brett. "ANNE-MARIE SCHLEINER and LUIS HERNANDEZ - ICAM lecture series". Rhizome. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ "MS ANNE MARIE SCHLEINER INSTRUCTOR". National University of Singapore. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ Schleiner, Anne-Marie (2012-01-01). "Ludic mutation: the player's power to change the game". Amsterdam: [s.n.]
- ↑ Clarke, Andy (2007). Videogames and Art. Bristol, UK: Intellect. ISBN 9781841501420. OCLC 127259132.
- ↑ Buckendorff, Jennifer. "The "Velvet-Strike" underground". Salon.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ "Killer Instinct in the Zenith Media Lounge". Absolute Arts. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ Stratford, Sarah-Jane. "Video Games as Applied Design—Without Women as Designers". Slate's Blog XXfactor. Retrieved 7 March 2015.