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I encountered Matthew Kirschenbaum’s “Prepare for the Textpocalypse” in real-time, hot on the heels of a lively discourse on Twitter. The starting point of this conversation was a February 12th tweet about a dystopian future of AI run amok. (I must confess, I, too, have a deeply dystopian AI endgame in my docs folder, as do, I suspect, many others. And, like many who are reading this, I also jumped into Kirschenbaum’s #textpocalypse Twitter stream with my own dark imaginings.) From there, the conversation ranged as things tend to do on Twitter and culminated in the March 8 essay published […]
Scott: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative. My name is Scott Retberg, and I’m the director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen in Norway. Jill: And I’m Jill Walker Retberg, co director of the Center for Digital Narrative. Scott: At the Center for Digital Narrative, we’re trying to define a new independent research field focused on digital narrative that integrates things like electronic literature, digital culture, game studies, computational narrative systems, AI, VR, and other emerging fields of digital narrative. In this podcast series, we’ll have conversations with researchers, artists, and authors […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative. My name is Scott Rettberg. I’m the director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen in Norway. Today I’m joined with Joe Tabbi. Hi, Joe. JT: Scott, hi. SR: Joe is a Professor of English at the University of Bergen, and he’s leading the Electronic Literature node at the Center. Just maybe to say a little bit about your background before we begin, Joe, you have what I would say is a fascinating and diverse background as a researcher, scholar, and publisher, which we’ll be talking […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast of the Center for Digital Narrative. I’m Scott Rettberg, the director of the Center, and today I have with me digital artist, digital poet, writer, and researcher Jason Nelson. Welcome, Jason. JN: Hi, Scott. Thanks for inviting me. SR: It’s a pleasure to have you here. And today I’m hoping that we can talk a little bit about your career as a digital poet and the work that you’re going to be doing with the Center and with the extending digital narrative node. So let’s start out with how you arrived at making […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative and algorithmic narrativity. My name is Scott Rettberg, and I’m the Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. In this podcast, I’ll have conversations with the researchers at the center, as well as other experts in the field to discuss topics revolving around digital storytelling and its impact on contemporary culture. Did you know that computers were being used to generate stories decades before ChatGPT burst onto the scene? From text adventures to programs that can generate complex and multi layered narratives, the interaction between […]
Various materials from the Gaddis Archive by William Gaddis, Copyright © 2024 The Estate of William Gaddis, used by permission of the Wylie Literary Agency (UK) Limited. Due to the copyrighted archival material reproduced here, this article is published under a stricter version of open access than the usual Electronic Book Review article: a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. All reproductions of material published here must be cited; no part of the article or its quoted material may be reproduced for commercial purposes; and the materials may not be repurposed and recombined with other material except in direct academic citation – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative and algorithmic narrativity. My name is Scott Rettberg and I’m the Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. In this episode, I’ll be talking with Caitlin Fisher, extended reality innovator and Director of the Immersive Storytelling Lab at York University, as well as Professor II at Center for Digital Narrative about her career, storytelling experiments and hopes for the future of narrative and AR environments. Hi, Caitlin. CF: Hi. SR: Welcome to Bergen. I’ve known you since 2001, 20-some years ago. You were the first […]
SR: On this episode of Off Center, I’ll be talking with Roderick Coover, a filmmaker, digital artist and Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University about his career and about our collaborative work together in producing works of combinatory cinema, computer programs that produced different versions of a film every time they run. Welcome, Rod. RC: Hello, Scott. SR: Rod, tell me a little about your journey, your background and how you got into doing this type of work. RC: The journey began with a kind of lost period of wandering around the world with a camera. I […]
Robert Coover was one of the most important American novelists of the 20th Century, the author of more than twenty books including novels, short story collections, plays and other writings. He was also a leading figure in the field of electronic literature, the teacher of many digital writing workshops at Brown University, the co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization, and a tireless promoter of the field and of innovation in digital writing. Robert Coover passed away on October 5, 2024, in the company of his family in Warwick, England, listening to “Penny Lane” by the Beatles as he drew his […]
Scott Rettberg: Welcome to another episode of Off Center. I’m here with Kristine Jørgensen, a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen and the PI of the Center for Digital Narrative, who’s leading our game studies node. Welcome, Kristine. Kristine Jørgensen: Thank you, Scott. Scott Rettberg: So today I’d like to talk about a number of different things. One is your research journey, how you got from where you started as a PhD student to where you are today. Another is a big project that you did over a period of several years called Games and Transgressive Aesthetics. I also want […]