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Scott Rettberg
Principal investigator · Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen
Photo: Henrick Beck
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.
Works — 7 All works →
Trump Jesus
Scott Rettberg
2026 · AI comic
2026 · AI comic
Birds of Norway
Scott Rettberg
2026 · 3D birdwatching simulator
2026 · 3D birdwatching simulator
I Will Write a Poem
Scott Rettberg
2026 · AI poetry studio
2026 · AI poetry studio
Riverrun (fascistchicfascistquick)
Scott Rettberg
2025 · AI cinema
2025 · AI cinema
Fin du Monde
Scott Rettberg
2024 · Generative AI narrative
2024 · Generative AI narrative
Authors Reviewing Authors Reviewing Authors…
Scott Rettberg
2023 · AI writing experiment
CDN Defrag Friday Collective
2023 · AI writing experiment
CDN Defrag Friday Collective
Genre Fiction Experiments with GPT
Scott Rettberg
2023 · AI writing experiments
2023 · AI writing experiments
Publications All →
Jan 2026 Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights Humanities PDF Dec 2024 Shed Not a Tear for Literature in the Age of AI CounterText 2024 Algorithmic narrativity: Literary experiments that drive technology Dialogues on Digital Society 2024 Fin du Monde: AI Text-To-Image Writing and the Digital Unconscious The Digital Review Jul 2023 Cyborg Authorship: Writing with AI – Part 1: The Trouble(s) with ChatGPT Electronic Book Review (EBR)
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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
Recent works
- Trump Jesus 2026
- Birds of Norway 2026
- I Will Write a Poem 2026
- Riverrun (fascistchicfascistquick) 2025
- Fin du Monde 2024
- Authors Reviewing Authors Reviewing Authors… 2023
- Genre Fiction Experiments with GPT 2023
Selected earlier works
- Penelope 2018
- Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project 2014–16
- Toxi*City 2013–15
- Implementation 2005, 2011
- The Unknown 1998–2000
Extending Digital Narrative