Extending Digital Narrative

Extending Digital Narrative

Center for Digital Narrative · University of Bergen

Emerging technologies as new environments for storytelling.

XDN documents and analyses key works, builds experimental works to test what these platforms afford, and studies how audiences meet them.

Period: 2023–2027
Host: Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence
Forms: Immersive · Conversational · Generative
Principal investigator: Scott Rettberg

Upcoming Exhibitions →

19–21 October 2026

After Virtual Reality: Extending Immersive Narrative

Symposium and exhibition · Bergen · alongside Bergen International Film Festival (14–22 Oct)

Recent narrative artworks in virtual, augmented, and extended reality — moving between physical and digital space, between what you do with your body and what a computer generates.

Special issue Publications →

2026 — ongoing

Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative

Open Library of Humanities · Guest-edited by Scott Rettberg, David Jhave Johnston, Malthe Stavning Erslev, Tuuli V. V. Hongisto, Alex Saum-Pascual, Haoyuan Tang and Pedro Cristóvão Q. Pinto

Articles are appearing progressively as they clear production.

Recent All activity →

Jun 2026 Publication (A)I Cannot See Them: A Situated Reflection on the Simulation of Historical Figures Lina Ruth Harder — Open Library of Humanities Jun 2026 Conference paper Narrative and AI Intimacy Zahra Rizvi, Anne Sigrid Refsum, Lina Ruth Harder, Elise Marie Strand Hagen, Jill Walker Rettberg, Marianne Gunderson — Narrative Conference May 2026 Conference paper When Anger Becomes Design: Queer Testimony, Harm, and the Making of Digital Worlds Sérgio Galvão Roxo — Northern Star Symposium 2026: Anger May 2026 Work Narracode David (Jhave) Johnston — Neurosymbolic narrative generation system May 2026 Work Trump Jesus Scott Rettberg — AI comic Apr 2026 Work Extincture David (Jhave) Johnston — Immersive 4-screen AI video installation Mar 2026 Work Birds of Norway Scott Rettberg — 3D birdwatching simulator Jan 2026 Publication Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights Harder, Johnston, Rettberg, Roxo, Tang — Humanities 15(1):17 Jan 2026 Publication (A)I CAN’T SEE HER Lina Ruth Harder — Selected Papers of Internet Research, SPIR Jan 2026 Conference paper Remixing the Past. Encounters with AI-Generated Historical Portraits Lina Ruth Harder — The 41st Narrative Conferenceof the International Society for the Study of Narrative Jan 2026 Conference paper Research as a creative practice Jason Nelson, Alinta Krauth, Lina Ruth Harder — CDN Equinox

Selected works All works →

Narracode structural loop diagram

Narracode

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Neurosymbolic narrative generation system

Extincture

Extincture

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Immersive 4-screen AI video installation
Kunnskapsfest, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen

Birds of Norway

Birds of Norway

Scott Rettberg
2026 · 3D birdwatching simulator

Practitioners People page →

Scott Rettberg

Electronic literature, combinatory poetics, AI-assisted creative practice

Principal investigator

Caitlin Fisher

Research focus — to be added

David (Jhave) Johnston

Digital poetry, AI video, durational practice

Haoyuan Tang

Research focus — to be added

Lina Ruth Harder

Simulation of historical figures; chatbots, voice clones, AI images

Sérgio Galvão Roxo

Immersive nonfiction, XR/VR, social intervention through art

P

Pedro Pinto

Research focus — to be added

Research assistant

Drew Keller

Generative video, media production workflows, AI in the studio

Eamon O'Kane

Painting, drawing, installation