The Games As Art Center has been an active site of artistic research with and through games. It has published a Academic Journal Special Issue, two articles, one conference paper, two book chapters and a practitioner’s book. Find all available publications below:
See our new Special Issue and Editorial with the International Journal of Role-Playing here from the Role-Play in Games Conference: https://journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/view/144
New book chapter on Games and Art: Stenros, J & Masek, L (2026): “Games as Art.” In Mäyrä, Frans & Koskimaa, Raine (Eds.): Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches. Routledge.
New Article on Ludic Inquiry: Masek, L., Galeote, D. F., Pomposini, A., & Gonzalez-Cohens, D. (2026). On the Other Side: Analyzing Identity and Crisis Through Ludic Inquiry. International Journal of Role-Playing, (17), 158-179.
See a book chapter by Leland Masek on our positive psychological edu-larp program: Masek, L. (2025) Edu‑larp and Positive Psychology. In Haarman, Susan (Ed.): Education and Analog Role-Playing Games Theory and Pedagogy, Volume 1. Taylor & Francis.
Games As Art Curation (Book)
Masek, Leland, Antonio Pomposini Tabja, and Daniel Fernández Galeote, eds. Games As Art Curation. Tampere, Finland: Games As Art Center, 2025.
Pluralist Game Studies (Conference Paper)
Masek, L. (2025, June). Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter) disciplinarity. In Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads.