Scott Rettberg

Person
Residency: 
Bergen
Norway
NO
Nationality: 
United States
US
Born: 
1970
Record Status: 
Photo of Scott Rettberg by Rune Arntsen, University of Bergen
Short biography: 

A native of the Chicago area, Scott Rettberg is professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg is the author or co-author of novel-length works of electronic literature including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, and Implementation. His work has been exhibited online and at art venues, including the Beall Center in Irvine California, the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and The Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. Rettberg is the cofounder and served as the first executive director of the non-profit Electronic Literature Organization, where he directed major projects funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Rettberg is currently the Project Leader of the HERA-funded collaborative research project ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice.

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Titlesort ascending Publication Type Publisher Year
Post(?) Pandemic Prose Conference panel or roundtable 2021
Platform 2 Series Vagant 2010
Performative Reading: Attending The Last Performance [dot org] Article in an online journal Dichtung Digital 2010
Ord som kan lyse opp et mørkt rom Article in a print journal Vagant 2009
Old Wine in New Bottles Other 2010
Networks of Creativity: Electronic Literature Communities Article or chapter in a book Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University 2015
Mining the Knowledge Base: Exploring Methodologies for Analysing the Field of Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2013
Maskiner og parabler Review Vagant 2010
Making Connections Visible: Building a Knowledge Base for Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2011
Letters in Space, At Play Other 2011
Lesningens visjoner: Om å lese i et multimedialt miljø Article in a print journal Vagant 2011
Jason Nelsons hemmelige teknologi Article in a print journal Vagant 2010
Introduction: Electronic Literature as a Framework for the Digital Humanities Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2020
Introduction of a Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from electronic book review. Volume 2 Book (collection) Bloomsbury Academic 2019
Introducing the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Article in an online journal 2013
Human Computation in Electronic Literature Article or chapter in a book 2014
Histories and Genres of Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2018
Grand Text Auto Weblog 2003
Gammel vin in nye skinnsekker Article in a print journal Vagant 2010
Games/gaming/simulation in a new media (literature) classroom Article in a print journal On the Horizon 2004

Curator of:

Titlesort ascending City Country Date
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Bergen Norway August 20, 2013 to September 30, 2013
START HERE> Chicago United States April 18, 2002 to April 20, 2002
Posthuman Bergen Norway March 4, 2021
Grand Text Auto Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum Champaign United States April 14, 2009 to July 26, 2009
Grand Text Auto Exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology Irvine United States October 9, 2007 to December 15, 2007
Digital Arena: On 'New Directions in Digital Poetry' — Chris Funkhouser Bergen Norway October 14, 2014
Digital Arena: Ink After Print — Søren Pold Bergen Norway December 2, 2014
Digital Arena: Electronic Literature Reading Series Bergen Norway August 9, 2013 to December 2, 2014
Digital Arena: Combinatory Cinema — Scott Rettberg Bergen Norway September 2, 2014
COVID 19 E-Lit Exhibition April 1, 2021
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