
Hedvig Jalhed
Director

Hedvig is a trained opera singer and founder of the independent group Operation Opera (2010) and since 2013 the artistic director of the Halland opera & vocal festival. In 2022, she earned a PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, after having conducted a practice-led artistic research project in interactive and immersive chamber opera. For the position at IAC, she is taking a time out from her work as project manager at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Publications
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World 3 revisited : artistic research in the age of (de)generative AI
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2026) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13
ArticleAgainst Practice : An Artistic Theory of Knowledge
Mattias Rylander, Hedvig Jalhed
(2026) Global Philosophy, 36
ArticleCreative Data Lab
Karin Westin Tikkanen, Madeleine Bergquist, Karin Johansson, Gunnar Krantz, Lars Gustaf Andersson, et al.
(2026) Reports from Inter Arts Center
ReportData duality : When artistic and scientific research overlap
Hedvig Jalhed
(2026) Reports from Inter Arts Center , p.65–77
Chapter in ReportOperans fysik : Övertoner i ljud och ljus
Johan Mauritsson, Hedvig Jalhed
(2025) Kosmos, 101 p.57
Specialist publication articleAn Operatic Chamber Model : Towards a Structured Visitor's Journey in Immersive Opera
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Kristoffer Åberg, David Hornwall, Katariina Poikela
(2025) Ludokonst , p.43–60
Book chapterPatterns as basis for immersivity across the arts : A practice-led hypothesis
Hedvig Jalhed
(2025) Frontiers in Psychology, 16
ArticleThe Delphic Room : An Artistically Derived Metaphor
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Kristoffer Åberg
(2024)
AbstractMusic and Embodied Action In Opera : A Reflective Practitioner Dialogue
Hedvig Jalhed, Sara Wilén
(2024)
Abstract1, 2, 3 Playtime
(2024) Reports from Inter Arts Center
ReportThe Prophecies
(2023)
Artistic workThe Consultant's Quest : Expansion Game for the Opera The Prophecies
(2023)
Artistic workThe Artificial Lyricist : Prototyping an Interactive Opera for Humans and Machines
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Kristoffer Åberg
(2023) From Abstractness to Concreteness: Experiential Knowledge and the Role of Prototypes in Design Research , p.831–847
Paper in conference proceedingUnfinished Business
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2023) VIS Nordic Journal of Artistic Research
ArticleLudiska lockelser : Spelen flyttar in i finrummen
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2023) Kulturimperiet, 2023 p.24
Specialist publication articleAn Operatic Game-Changer : The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera
Hedvig Jalhed
(2022)
Doctoral Thesis (monograph)Tysta leken
(2021)
Artistic workOpera Inside-Out : Reversed Staging for Sensory Immersion
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2021)
AbstractReich of Ran
(2018)
Artistic workIn the Darkness, Everything Went all Black
Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson, Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Agnes Wästfelt
(2018)
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