Anne-Marie Schleiner is a theorist, an educator, a new media and performance artist, a hacktivist, a scholar, a gamer, and a curator.
Education
In 1992 Schleiner received her Bachelor of Arts in studio arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She continued her education by receiving her Master of Fine Arts in computers in fine art from the CADRE Program at San Jose State University Her dissertation, "Ludic Mutation: The Player"s Power to Change the Game" was written under the supervision of Professor Doctor Mireille Doctorate. Rosello at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and submitted in 2012.
Career
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, Netto art, and conceptual art Schleiner was born in 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island.
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.
Velvet-Strike was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2003 her work H711 was included in an exhibition at the New Museum.
Teaching Schleiner currently teaches at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Communications and New Media.
