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Biography
Jira Duguid (b. 1990, Nambour, Australia) is an artist making video games and performances in order to commodify dreams, nightmares and memories for mass distribution online. Their work uses fantasy within contemporary atopic environments to explore queer trauma, identity, and alienation through play. Duguid is a member of the experimental video game collective Fantasia Malware and lives in Berlin, Germany.
Duguid has been commissioned by Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin, 2026) and Nation Gallery X (London, 2021), and exhibited with Les Nuits Blanches (Paris, 2026), Rhizome (New York, 2025) and Electromuseum (Moscow, 2017). They are a resident at creative research and development centre for weird gaming Sybil, Berlin.
Contact
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CV
Ludography
2026
Die Schwarze Krähe der Weißen Siedlung
Commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
2025-present
Mirror Mall
2022
SEX! At Alexanderplatz
2021
The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena
Commissioned by the Royal Opera House and National Gallery X, London.
Commissioned by the Royal Opera House and National Gallery X, London.
2020
Orchid Collector
2020
2017
2016
Dystropicana
Selected Performances
2026
Mirror Mall – Les Nuits Blanches, Distraction, Le Jardin Des Traverses, Paris
Mirror Mall – Haunted Realities ii, Y Events, Divadlo X10, Prague
Mirror Mall – Feral Loop Fever, Fantasia Malware, HAU3 - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2025
Mirror Mall, Sybil Opening, Sybil, Berlin
Mirror Mall – Fever Loop Fountain, Fantasia Malware, HAU3 - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2024
The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena, HAU2 – Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2023
SEX! At Alexanderplatz, game performance at Fantasia Malware Presents Helsinki, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki
A MAZE. Festival Opening Performance: SEX! At Alexanderplatz, game performance at A MAZE. Festival, Berlin
2021
Orchid Collector III, game performance at opening of Overkill Festival, Enschede
Orchid Collector II, livestream performance for panke.gallery, Berlin
2020
Orchid Collector, livestream performance for the AuThRe programme, Spielberatung, HAW Hamburg
2019
Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates Live, Utopias Release Party, panke.gallery, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Die Schwarze Krähe der Weißen Siedlung – Berlin Bleibt, commissioned by HAU, Berlin
The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena – Les Nuits Blanches, Distraction, Le Jardin Des Traverses, Paris
Die Schwarze Krähe der Weißen Siedlung, A World of One’s Own – Sybil, Berlin
2025
Escape from Lavender Mirror Corporate Island Mall, Select Start, curated by Rhizome, Beeple Studios, Charleston SC
2023
SEX! At Alexanderplatz, exhibited at Queer Games Bundle at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY
SEX! At Alexanderplatz, Un-Dating the Obvious – Wired Love, Desire and Care, IKLEKTIK, London
2021
The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena, commissioned by the Royal Opera House and National Gallery X, London
Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates, Tāctus, Selection in the Athens Digital Arts Festival, Online
2017
Data Mutations, Games Not Games, Electromuseum, Moscow
Residencies
2026
We Are At Work – Fonds Darstellende Künste, Düsseldorf
Sybil Arc 2 Residency, Berlin
2025
Sybil Arc 1 Residency, Berlin
2019
The Brain 5 Gaumont Residency, Berlin
Selected Awards and Prizes
2021
Winner: A MAZE. Festival, Audience Choice Award
Finalist: A MAZE. Festival, Most Amazing Award
Grants
2024
Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Senate Department for Culture and Community, Berlin
2021
Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Senate Department for Culture and Community, Berlin
Talks and Lectures
2026
GAMES (That We Can't Play), guest lecture for Creating Alt-Ctrl Games as Feminist Art Practice, School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe, Berlin
GAMES (That We Can't Play), guest lecture for A MAZE. Hypertalks, re:publica, Berlin
Artist Talk with Fantasia Malware, moderated by Sarah Reimann, HAU Dialog, part of PLAYMODE.EXE, HAU3 – Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2023
Guest lecture, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2022
Hacking Biocodes: Social Revolt, Virtual Worlds & Viral Love Biohack, panel with Helena Velena and Shu Lea Cheang, moderated by Margherita Pevere, Transitioning, Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2018
Acid Games, Guest lecture and workshop at Università IULM, Milan
2017
Guest lecture, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Workshops
2025
Parasites & Robotics, guest teaching, organised by Salvador Marino, Sybil, Berlin
2019
Tactics for Radical Collaboration, co-organised with AAA Software, transmediale, Berlin
Selected Bibliography
2022
Denise Helene Sumi, Chloe Langford and Jira Duguid, Overstimulation Propaganda for Solitude Journal #4, 2022
2021
Ivanova, Victoria and Watson, Kay, Future Art Ecosystems Vol 2. Art x Metaverse, Serpentine
Campagna, Federico, Metaphysics and Metaethics in the Design of Strategy Video Games, Royal College of Art, London , 2021
2020
Gordon, Lewis, ‘Utopias’ Asks Us to Imagine a Better Future Together, VICE
Education
2014
Bachelor of Animation with Class IIA Honours, Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane
2011
Bachelor of Animation, Major in Character Animation, Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane