Extending Digital Narrative Videos
Lectures, panels and documentation
Recordings from seminars, summer schools, exhibitions and book launches at the Center for Digital Narrative. 35 videos, hosted on the centre's YouTube channel.
66:58 Art, Science, and the Threat of Extinction
Digital artist Donna Davis and ecologist Darren Crayn on how artists and scientists can work together in the field — species extinction, the role of artists in the future of endangered species, and who decides which species get scientific focus.
90:05 Intervention in the Creation of Nonhuman Narratives
How nonhuman and more-than-human narratives are engaged by techno-artists across digital poetics, video games and digital design.
69:45 Small Climates, Big Issues
Forest ecologist Robert Lewis and multidisciplinary artist Alinta Krauth on how microclimates, and the data that reveal them, shape forests and the Earth’s future.
60:11 Therolinguistics: the digital and the feral
How do we engage posthuman and more-than-human ‘voice’ in critical creative practices? With computational artist Rewa Wright and installation artist Audax M.
1:43 Wherever I Go, You're Always With Me — BIFF 2025
Lina Ruth Harder
Behind the scenes of the participatory exhibit shown in ‘An Eye for AI Cinema’ at the Bergen International Film Festival 2025.
41:46 An Eye for AI Cinema — panel discussion
Is artificial intelligence destroying cinema as we know it? A panel on the tumultuous changes AI brings to the established film industry.
3:43 Digital Art, Creativity and AI — The More Than Meets AI Exhibition
Inside ‘More Than Meets AI’, where five participating artists share how they are incorporating AI in their practice, their worries, and why human agency still matters.
6:21 Daniel Johannes F. Rosnes — Joefest
A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
6:56 Intermezzo 3 — Joefest
Messages from abroad by Rob Wittig, Dene Grigar, Rui Torres, Stuart Moulthrop and Serge Bouchardon.
5:52 Jill Walker Rettberg — Joefest
A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
14:17 Intermezzos 1 and 2 — Joefest
First-person reflections on the work of Joe Tabbi by colleagues from around the world.
2:07 Marion Mühlburger — Joefest
A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
5:12 Ole Thomassen Hjortland — Joefest
A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
16:05 Scott Rettberg — Joefest
Scott Rettberg
A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
47:36 Steve Tomasula keynote — Joefest
“I Always Wanted to be a Media Theorist Who… Or Reading with Joe Tabbi for 30 Years.” A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
23:16 Eric Dean Rasmussen — Joefest
A celebration of the research career of Joseph Tabbi.
43:10 Alexandra Saemmer: Reading, writing and performing literary profiles
Social networks are inhabited by profiles. Profiles are not real people: there is always a gap between the profile and life.
52:26 D. Fox Harrell: Narrative Imagining, Role Playing, and Computing for Prosocial Impact
Digital media narratives and computationally supported role-playing shape who we can become — and what kinds of societies we might build.
55:36 Yudhanjaya Wijeratne: The Machine as Provocateur
The intersection between apophenia — finding meaningful patterns in random data — and the procedural generation systems we build to harness it.
52:14 Maria Mäkelä: Small Story, Grand Narrative
How to understand social media storytelling and what it is doing to us.
65:18 Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023
David (Jhave) Johnston
Seven decades of computer-generated text, beginning before the term “artificial intelligence” was coined — the work done by artists, poets and writers who took computing and code into their own hands.
61:55 Machine Visions: new books by Parikka, Dobson & Rettberg
The authors of three new books about automated vision, in a panel led by Gabriele de Seta.
2:03 (Always) Playing the Camera: Cyborg Vision and Embodied Surveillance in Digital Games
A video abstract on diegetic surveillance cameras in digital games and their relation to the player character.
17:38 AI and Essayistic Writing: initial thoughts — Mario Aquilina
A reading from a paper examining artificial intelligence from the perspective of what it means for the literary essay.
18:14 An algorithmic folklore: vernacular creativity in times of everyday automation — Gabriele de Seta
An introduction to the study of algorithmic folklore and the new programme of study at the University of Bergen.
18:45 An excerpt from Hallucinations Are (almost) All You Need — David Jhave Johnston
David (Jhave) Johnston
An artistic overview of key scientific examples, framed by the hypothesis that science is being transformed by the hallucinations produced with artificial intelligence.
17:22 Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds
Lina Ruth Harder
Lina Harder presents her PhD project on AI-driven reanimation of historical figures.
16:17 Deconstructing the Endless Engagement Aesthetics of AI Platforms — Ben Grosser
An examination of the behaviours of GPT and its influence on users’ perceptions, self-identity, and cycles of affirmation.
17:08 Emerging trends in generative video and media production — Drew Keller
Drew Keller
A snapshot of current media tools embedded with artificial intelligence, their potential and their limitations.
16:56 The End of the World as AI Know It: Text-to-Image Generation as a Narrative Form — Scott Rettberg
Scott Rettberg
Scott Rettberg explores digital environments for storytelling and the capacities of artificial intelligence in creative work.
Videos are hosted on the CDN YouTube channel. Thumbnails are held locally so the record survives if a video is removed.