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Scott Rettberg

Principal investigator · Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen

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retts.net
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Center for Digital Narrative

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Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, and Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence running from 2023 to 2033. Research and creative practice focus on electronic literature, digital narrative, combinatory poetics, algorithmic storytelling, networked writing, and the cultural implications of computational media. Cofounder of the Electronic Literature Organization; directs the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.

Talks and panels — 14 All research →
Jun 2026 Conference paper Narrative and AI Intimacy Narrative Conference
Sep 2025 Conference paper Wrestling the Machine: Human Authorship with Generative AI Conference on Generative AI in Art and Literature
Aug 2025 Lecture Generative AI Storytelling Arendalsuke NORA - Norwegian AI Research Consortium Jul 2025 Conference paper It's Been a Long Time Since We Rock and Rolled: A Rock History of the Early ELO 2025 Annual Conference for the Electronic Literature Organization: ELO @ 25 Jan 2025 Radio Why electronic literature has ushered in a new paradigm of knowledge Jan 2025 Conference paper AI and Digital Narrative Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene
2024 Interview AI, Computational Creativity, and Media Production with Drew Keller
2024 Conference paper AI Text-to-Image Writing and the Digital Unconscious The Digital Unconscious Conference (2024)
2024 Conference paper AIwriting: Creative Practice as a Critical Method for Investigating Large Language Models Humanties Meets AI
2024 Interview Computational Narrative Systems and Platform Studies with Nick Montfort
2024 Conference paper Cyborg Authorship: Writing with AI Seminars in the Digital and Public Humanities
2024 Interview Gendered AI and Editorial Labour in Digital Culture with Lai-Tze Fan
2024 Conference paper The Center for Digital Narrative and recent research in AI Krebs Center for the Humanities Lectures
2023 Conference paper AIwriting: Text to Image Generation as a Mode of Digital Narrative ELO 2023 Conference: Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change