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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 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 […]
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. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Victory Garden 2022, one of the latest web reconstructions of e-literary classics made by the Electronic Literature Lab, delivers a promise of yet another 20 years of exploration of this vast hypertext. Created in Storyspace and originally published in 1993 by Eastgate Systems, Stuart Moulthrop’s hypertext fiction achieved a status of a unique, literary evergreen, a wide ranging digital ouvre. The dense network of interconnected text spaces (993 lexias and over 2800 links) delivered an abundance of divergent stories that run in parallel or, sometimes, in contradiction to each other. Add to this some blind alleys and “secret” spaces, and […]
A recording of searing, unrelenting pain sounds has just started screaming on this page. Perhaps you have not noticed. Perhaps, like me, all sounds are painful to you and you routinely turn off the volume to live in silence (Colucci 2021). Or you are hard of hearing. Or your computer is malfunctioning. Perhaps, then, as you are now reading this in silence, you are wondering what signifiers you are missing—what clues are going unheard. Are the sounds vital to convey the full meaning of the piece? Is this piece like r(a/u)pture music where you see the multi-modal words converge—the rap […]
This paper follows the threads of speculative interfaces through electronic literature and the digital humanities, arguing not only that the speculative interface is a key attribute of electronic literature, but also that speculative interfaces are an important methodology in the digital humanities. I will discuss the interfaces of three works of electronic literature, each written decades apart: Christopher Strachey’s M.U.C. Love Letter Generator (1952), Michael Joyce’s afternoon: a story (1990) and Kate Pullinger’s Breathe (2018). Each of these creates a new, speculative interface: Strachey programmed a mainframe computer to generate love letters, Joyce pioneered hypertext fiction, and Pullinger created a […]
Care and Carelessness As the writer types furiously, attempting to meet a deadline, the little red squiggle appears. The writer’s eyes dart to the left. The word is “aquire,” but Microsoft Word suggests it should be “acquire.” The writer accepts this change and moves on. A few sentences later, another red line appears. When the writer hovers their cursor above the words marked by this line – “It goes without saying” – a popup message warns that this way of starting a sentence suggests a lack of confidence. This message comes from Grammarly, an algorithmic writing assistant. These days, algorithms […]