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.
[4] She continued her education by receiving her MFA in computers in fine art from the CADRE Program at San Jose State University[5][6] Her doctoral dissertation, "Ludic Mutation: The Player's Power to Change the Game"[7] 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.
[12] Schleiner is credited with originating the concept of 'Ludic Mutation', which addresses the role that players of videogames take in changing a game.
As such it can be read as a challenge to the theory of procedural rhetoric, and as a contribution to the activist game and newsgame strands of so-called 'Games for Change'.
[14] Previously, Schleiner was an instructor at the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, teaching for almost a decade there.