Scott Rettberg Ph.D. | |
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Nationality | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electronic literature, digital humanities |
Institutions | University of Bergen |
Website |
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Scott Rettberg is an American digital artist and scholar of electronic literature based in Bergen, Norway. He is the co-founder and served as the first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization. [1] [2] [3] He leads the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence from 2023 to 2033. [4]
Rettberg is a professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. [1] He is the author of the book Electronic Literature, which won the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019, [5] described by Kathi Inman Berens as "a definitive overview of electronic literature". [6] He has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities. [7]
Rettberg was the project leader of the HERA-Funded ELMCIP research project (2010–13), and is the director of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. [2]
Rettberg became known as an author of hypertext fiction in the 1990s. His first major project was the collaborative web novel The Unknown, A Hypertext Novel, which was written in collaboration with William Gillespie, Dirk Stratton, and Frank Marquadt, and won the trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998. [8] It was also featured in the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 2, [9] and has been analysed by a number of scholars. [10] [11] [12] [13]
Rettberg's cinematic collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, received the Robert Coover Award in 2016. [14] The annual award is given by the Electronic Literature Organization each year in recognition of an outstanding work of electronic literature. [15] [16] [17]
The combinatory film Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative was created with Roderick Coover, and is described as a film that "shape-shifts each time it plays; an algorithm selects fragments from each of the six narratives and reconfigures them to create an ever-changing, yet thematically consistent, production" [18]
In 2023 Rettberg began experimenting with using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate narratives [19] that "neither human nor AI could have created alone", [20] including the project Republicans in Love.
Rettberg co-founded the Electronic Literature Organization with Robert Coover and Jeff Ballowe in 1999. [21]
the unknown hypertext gillespie.
Scott Rettberg Ph.D. | |
---|---|
Nationality | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electronic literature, digital humanities |
Institutions | University of Bergen |
Website |
www |
Scott Rettberg is an American digital artist and scholar of electronic literature based in Bergen, Norway. He is the co-founder and served as the first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization. [1] [2] [3] He leads the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence from 2023 to 2033. [4]
Rettberg is a professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. [1] He is the author of the book Electronic Literature, which won the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019, [5] described by Kathi Inman Berens as "a definitive overview of electronic literature". [6] He has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities. [7]
Rettberg was the project leader of the HERA-Funded ELMCIP research project (2010–13), and is the director of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. [2]
Rettberg became known as an author of hypertext fiction in the 1990s. His first major project was the collaborative web novel The Unknown, A Hypertext Novel, which was written in collaboration with William Gillespie, Dirk Stratton, and Frank Marquadt, and won the trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998. [8] It was also featured in the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 2, [9] and has been analysed by a number of scholars. [10] [11] [12] [13]
Rettberg's cinematic collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, received the Robert Coover Award in 2016. [14] The annual award is given by the Electronic Literature Organization each year in recognition of an outstanding work of electronic literature. [15] [16] [17]
The combinatory film Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative was created with Roderick Coover, and is described as a film that "shape-shifts each time it plays; an algorithm selects fragments from each of the six narratives and reconfigures them to create an ever-changing, yet thematically consistent, production" [18]
In 2023 Rettberg began experimenting with using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate narratives [19] that "neither human nor AI could have created alone", [20] including the project Republicans in Love.
Rettberg co-founded the Electronic Literature Organization with Robert Coover and Jeff Ballowe in 1999. [21]
the unknown hypertext gillespie.