Scott Rettberg Explained

Scott Rettberg
Honorific Suffix:Ph.D.
Nationality:American
Fields:Electronic literature, digital humanities
Work Institution:University of Bergen

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]

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,[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.

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.[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.

The Electronic Literature Organization

See main article: Electronic Literature Organization. Rettberg co-founded the Electronic Literature Organization with Robert Coover and Jeff Ballowe in 1999.[21]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. Web site: Scott Rettberg Biography. University of Bergen. en. 2017-05-12.
  2. Web site: History of the Electronic Literature Organization. eliterature.org. en-US. 2017-05-12.
  3. News: E-voking muses. Keller. Julia. 2001-05-18. Chicago Tribune. 2017-10-17. en.
  4. Web site: Svarstad . Jørgen . Lie . Tove . 2022-09-23 . Tre på rad for Moser-miljøet. 5 av 9 sentre til Universitetet i Oslo . 2022-09-27 . khrono.no . nb-no.
  5. Web site: Announcing the 2019 ELO Prizes – Electronic Literature Organization. eliterature.org. 5 August 2019 . 2019-09-06.
  6. Web site: Berens . Kathi Inman . 2019-05-02 . Third Generation Electronic Literature and Artisanal Interfaces: Resistance in the Materials › electronic book review . 2022-09-27 . Electronic Book Review . en-US.
  7. Book: Electronic literature communities. Rettberg. Scott. Tomaszek. Patricia. Baldwin. Sandy. 2015-01-01. Center for Literary Computing . 9781940425993. en. 917358825.
  8. Web site: trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998 Results. 1998. unknownhypertext.com. 2017-10-17.
  9. Web site: The Unknown. Rettberg. Scott. Gillespie. William. 2011. Borràs. Laura. Memmott. Talan. collection.eliterature.org. 1998. 2017-10-17. Stratton. Dirk. Marquadt. Frank. Raley. Rita. Stefans. Brian.
  10. Book: Kolb, David A.. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media . Story/Story . 2012. HT '12. New York, NY, USA. ACM. 99–102. 10.1145/2309996.2310013. 9781450313353. 208938632.
  11. Pisarski. Mariusz. 2016. Collaboration in e-literature. World Literature Studies. en. 8. 3. 78–89. 1337-9275.
  12. Book: Ciccoricco, David. Reading Network Fiction. registration. the unknown hypertext gillespie.. 2007-11-25. University of Alabama Press. 9780817315894. en.
  13. Book: Desrochers. Nadine. Tomaszek. Patricia. 2014. Bridging The Unknown : An Interdisciplinary Case Study of Paratext in Electronic Literature. 160–189 . 1866/12174.
  14. Web site: Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds. Rettberg. Jill Walker. University of Bergen. en. 2017-05-13.
  15. Web site: ELO Prize: Annual Prizes from the ELO. dtc-wsuv.org. en-US. 2017-05-13.
  16. Web site: Hearts and Minds Awarded Top Electronic Literature Prize . 2017-05-12 . cada.uic.edu.
  17. Web site: Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds . 2017-05-12 . www.uib.no . en.
  18. Web site: Baille . Katherine Unger . 2019-05-13 . A sense of place on shifting shores . 2022-09-27 . Penn Today . en.
  19. Rettberg . Scott . Memmott . Talan . Rettberg . Jill Walker . Nelson . Jason . Lichty . Patrick . 2023 . AIwriting: Relations Between Image Generation and Digital Writing . cs.AI . 2305.10834.
  20. News: Andersen . Ingeborg Håvardstein . 2023-03-01 . Kunstig litteratur? . 22 . STOFF .
  21. News: Keller . Julia . 2001-05-18 . E-voking muses The next wave in world literature is gestating in a scruffy Ravenswood office . Chicago Tribune .
  22. Book: Rettberg, Scott. Electronic Literature. Polity Press. 2018. Cambridge.

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