Research

As an artistic academic, Hedvig Jalhed engages in artistic research and art-science collaborations. Her interest in cross-disciplinary projects is for instance evident in her integration of game design and artificial intelligence into live-performed chamber opera, as well as her use of the operatic voice to demonstrate analogous physical principles of light and sound.

Artistic Research

Hedvig Jalhed’s doctoral dissertation An Operatic Game-Changer: The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera is available both in print and online via Gothenburg University:
https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/70289

Follow Hedvig Jalhed’s research publications:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Hedvig-Jalhed

Publications in selection

Rylander, M., & Jalhed, H. (2026). Against Practice: An Artistic Theory of Knowledge. Global Philosophy, 36, 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-026-09781-w

Jalhed, H. (2025). Patterns as basis for immersivity: A practice-led hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1670384

Jalhed, H., Rylander, M., & Åberg, K. (2024). The Delphic Room: An Artistically Derived Metaphor. Abstract från AR@K24, Oslo, Norway.

Rylander, M., Jalhed, H., & Åberg, K. (2023). The Artificial Lyricist: Prototyping an Interactive Opera for Humans and Machines. I S. Ferraris, V. Rognoli, & N. Nimkulrat (Eds.), From Abstractness to Concreteness: Experiential Knowledge and the Role of Prototypes in Design Research (s. 831–847). https://www.eksig2023.polimi.it/assets/EKSIG-Proceedings.pdf

Jalhed, H., & Rylander, M. (2023). Unfinished Business. VIS Nordic Journal of Artistic Research, (9). https://www.en.visjournal.nu/unfinished-business

Jalhed, H., & Rylander, M. (2021). Opera Inside-Out: Reversed Staging for Sensory Immersion. Abstract från Watershed Music Theatre Community Exchange Sessions, Kingston, Canada.

Interview with Hedvig Jalhed on Axess TV 2022 (in Swedish):

Hedvig Jalhed’s research presentation at The Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s symposium ”Mötesplats Opera” 2021 (in Swedish):

Art-Science Collaborations

Short summary of a popular science presentation of the project ”The Physics of Opera” at Forum Medicum, Lund, 2025: