In our ongoing series about games researchers, we portrait the people who bring game studies forward and define how game making is taught and learned at universities. Today in the spotlight is Marion Plank of IU International University, professor for Game Art.
GamesMarket: Who are you, and what is your area of research?
Marion Plank: My name is Marion Plank, I have been part of the games industry as an artist and animator for over a decade. When the generative AI craze first started in 2021-2022, it coincided with the start of my game art professorship at IU Internationale Hochschule. So naturally I gravitated towards what AI means for the development of games but quickly fell into a rabbit hole of Posthumanism, Machine Creativity, human VS. generated art and later connected the dots towards The Uncanny in games.
What brought you into game studies in the first place?
