Anne-Marie Schleiner is a theorist, an educator, a new media and performance artist, a hacktivist, a scholar, a gamer, and a curator. 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. Her work investigates avatar gender construction, computer gaming culture, hacker art and experimental game design. She has curated online exhibits of game mods and add-ons including the exhibits Cracking the Maze: Game Patches and Plug-ins as Hacker Art, Mutation.fem, and Snow Blossom House. She has designed the games Anime Noir and Heaven711. She runs a site focused on game hacks and open source digital art forms called opensorcery.net and has been actively involved in the anti-war game performance art initiatives Velvet-Strike and OUT. She has taught at universities and artist workshops and participated in art residencies in Germany, Belgium, Spain and Mexico. She has exhibited online and at the New Museum, NY, the Whitney, Centro de la Imagen Museum, Mexico City, and international galleries. Schleiner holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. Since 2017, she is a Lecturer at the University of California Davis. Her 2017 publication ‘The Player’s Power to Change the Game’ explores what she calls ‘ludic mutation,’ a transformative process in which the player experiences a power grab, and seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself, an important ramification for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare. Her book ‘Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games’ will be released in 2020 by Amsterdam University Press.

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