LARPS

LARP: The Clown without a Heart by PhD Omi-peah

The Clown without a Heart – A LARP about AI. This is a LARP designed to shift the focus on AI from the technology to the entangled relationship between humans and their creation. It is a game in four acts in which players get to go between embodying the AI in different developmental phases and playing the makers and users of this technology. It starts with the end, when nothing remains of what we today take for granted. It then moves on to explore this pivotal moment in time, on an institutional level, when progress is being redefined. Next comes a dive into the personal realm and the challenge of being with the unknown. Finally, the game ends with the birth (and rebirth) of a new form of consciousness. 

The game itself will take approximately 1,5 hours and it will be wrapped up by a group reflection. 

Bio: PhD Omi-peah (former Karin) Ryding is an Experience Designer, researcher and artist based in Copenhagen. In her thesis from 2021, she reworked Flanagan’s concept of Critical Play by drawing on affect theory and New Materialism. She went on to expand on Soma Design by encompassing the complexities of working with the more-than-human. As an artist and a LARP designer, she has dived deeper into these subjects by exploring the transformative power of embodiment. Together with artist Roman Schramm, she developed “The Language of Plants” in 2025, a LARP commissioned by Museum Sinclair Haus for the exhibition “Pflanzengespür” (or “Plant sense”), in which players are guided through the ancient shamanic practice of communicating with plants. Her most recent work includes exploring the intricacies of AI as algorithmic practice and co-creator of realities.

LARP: New Voices in Art by Martin Ericsson

New Voices in Art is a short game about the value of art and artists. As a participant you will be given a piece of art and a few words about your role. You will develop this character during the one hour workshop. The game itself will take 3 hours and is set at a joint exhibition where you will present and critique art, interact with potential buyers and gallerists, dance to the DJ, drink and dream. The game was originally designed by the design collective Interacting Arts (Gabriel Widing, Tova Gerge, Andrea Nordwall, Elge Larsson et- al.) and has been run by Martin at the Umeå School for design.

Bio: Martin Ericsson aka “Elricsson” is a digital, tabletop and live roleplay artist. He has been a major voice in the development of what is known as Nordic Larp since the 1990’s and is the designer and lead writer of the hit tabletop game Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition, the larp adaptation of Hamlet, genre- defining spaceship larp games Carolus Rex and Battlestar Galactica inspired Monitor Celestra and has received Emmy and Bafta awards for his work in participatory drama series Truth About Marika and The Spiral in the 2010’s. He was the lead designer working with SICS during the Integrated Project on Pervasive Games and is credited in a handful of research papers.