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American-Norwegian digital culture professor and author

Scott RettbergPh.D.
In 2011
NationalityAmerican
Scientific career
FieldsElectronic literature, digital humanities
InstitutionsUniversity of Bergen
Websitewww.uib.no/en/persons/Scott.Robert.Rettberg

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. He leads the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence from 2023 to 2033.

Scholarship

Rettberg is a professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of the book Electronic Literature, which won the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019, described by Kathi Inman Berens as "a definitive overview of electronic literature". He has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities.

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.

Literary and artistic career

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. It was also featured in the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 2, and has been analysed by a number of scholars.

Rettberg's cinematic collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, received the Robert Coover Award in 2016. The annual award is given by the Electronic Literature Organization each year in recognition of an outstanding work of electronic literature.

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"

In 2023 Rettberg began experimenting with using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate narratives that "neither human nor AI could have created alone", including the project Republicans in Love.

The Electronic Literature Organization

Main article: Electronic Literature Organization

Rettberg co-founded the Electronic Literature Organization with Robert Coover and Jeff Ballowe in 1999.

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Scott Rettberg Biography". University of Bergen. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  2. ^ "History of the Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  3. Keller, Julia (May 18, 2001). "E-voking muses". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  4. Svarstad, Jørgen; Lie, Tove (September 23, 2022). "Tre på rad for Moser-miljøet. 5 av 9 sentre til Universitetet i Oslo". khrono.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  5. "Announcing the 2019 ELO Prizes – Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. August 5, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  6. Berens, Kathi Inman (May 2, 2019). "Third Generation Electronic Literature and Artisanal Interfaces: Resistance in the Materials › electronic book review". Electronic Book Review. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  7. Rettberg, Scott; Tomaszek, Patricia; Baldwin, Sandy (January 1, 2015). Electronic literature communities. Center for Literary Computing. ISBN 9781940425993. OCLC 917358825.
  8. "trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998 Results". unknownhypertext.com. 1998. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  9. Rettberg, Scott; Gillespie, William; Stratton, Dirk; Marquadt, Frank (2011) . Borràs, Laura; Memmott, Talan; Raley, Rita; Stefans, Brian (eds.). "The Unknown". collection.eliterature.org. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  10. Kolb, David A. (2012). "Story/Story". Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media. HT '12. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 99–102. doi:10.1145/2309996.2310013. ISBN 9781450313353. S2CID 208938632.
  11. Pisarski, Mariusz (2016). "Collaboration in e-literature". World Literature Studies. 8 (3): 78–89. ISSN 1337-9275.
  12. Ciccoricco, David (November 25, 2007). Reading Network Fiction. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817315894. the unknown hypertext gillespie.
  13. Desrochers, Nadine; Tomaszek, Patricia (2014). Bridging The Unknown : An Interdisciplinary Case Study of Paratext in Electronic Literature. pp. 160–189. hdl:1866/12174.
  14. Rettberg, Jill Walker. "Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds". University of Bergen. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  15. "ELO Prize: Annual Prizes from the ELO". dtc-wsuv.org. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  16. "Hearts and Minds Awarded Top Electronic Literature Prize". cada.uic.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  17. "Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds". www.uib.no. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  18. Baille, Katherine Unger (May 13, 2019). "A sense of place on shifting shores". Penn Today. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  19. Rettberg, Scott; Memmott, Talan; Rettberg, Jill Walker; Nelson, Jason; Lichty, Patrick (2023). "AIwriting: Relations Between Image Generation and Digital Writing". arXiv:2305.10834 .
  20. Andersen, Ingeborg Håvardstein (March 1, 2023). "Kunstig litteratur?". STOFF. p. 22.
  21. Keller, Julia (May 18, 2001). "E-voking muses The next wave in world literature is gestating in a scruffy Ravenswood office" (PDF). Chicago Tribune.
  22. Rettberg, Scott (2018). Electronic Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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