Hedvig Jalhed

Hedvig Jalhed is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University's Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, affiliated with the Inter Arts Center. As an opera artist-scholar, she pioneers multi-sensory composition and AI integration in contemporary chamber opera through practice-led research.

• Active in fields of Opera, Artificial Intelligence, and Game Design
• Manages infrastructure projects like Creative Data Lab
• Collaborates with researchers across disciplines including Digital Humanities and Creative Technologies

Her work explores immersive performance through larping, role-playing, and interactive systems, creating novel operatic concepts for contemporary audiences.

Recent outputs examine embodiment in opera, AI-based casting systems, and the intersection of ritual with performance technologies.