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 […]
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