Espen Aarseth

Person

URL:

ITU

Residency:

Copenhagen

Denmark

Nationality:

Norway

Born:

1965

Record Status:

Approved record

Short biography:

Prior to coming to ITU in 2003, Aarseth was professor at the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, which he co-founded in 1996. Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gamestudies.org - the first academic journal of computer game research. Author of Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Johns Hopkins UP 1997), a comparative media theory of games and other aesthetic forms.

Critical writing by this author:

Title	Publication Type	Publisher	Year
End over End	Keynote address		2015
Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation	Article in an online journal, Article or chapter in a book	The MIT Press, Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2004
Allegories of Space: The Question of Spatiality in Computer Games	Article or chapter in a book	University of Jyväskylä	2001
Computer Game Studies, Year One	Article in an online journal		2001
Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and The Speaking Clock	Article or chapter in a book		1999
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic literature	Book (monograph) - print	Johns Hopkins University Press	1997
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Book (monograph) - print	Johns Hopkins University Press	1997
Nonlinearity and Literary Theory	Article or chapter in a book		1994

Events arranged:

Event	City	Date	Event type	Link to edit content
Digital Arts and Culture 1998 Conference	Bergen	26.11.1998	Conference
Digital Arts and Culture 2000 Conference	Bergen	02.08.2000	Conference

Affiliations:

Title
University of Bergen, Department of Humanistic Informatics

Research Collection that references this person:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 1: Genres of Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction

Full Name:

Espen Aarseth

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Record posted by:

Patricia Tomaszek