Youth Concert at the Bergen Aquarium
Yesterday we went to the Bergen Aquarium to see the Regnbuen Child and Youth Orchestra playing some classical Norwegian folk songs. I prepared a short one minute video to capture the spirit of the event.
Yesterday, Bergen celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Henrik Ibsen’s death by marching in the streets in costume (as you would). Here’s a quick little video of scenes from the celebration.
I’ll miss the beach after I leave Brigantine. The weather is just starting to call me to it again for afternoon walks and midnight strolls.
I’ve posted a set of photos from the E-Fest. Highlights of the fest included some beautiful interfaces by current Brown e-writing fellow Daniel Howe and next year’s fellow Aya Karapinska, new work by Stuart Moulthrop, an excellent ten minute presentation on Perec and Beckett by Gale Nelson, a short paper on Memory and Real Time by Wendy Chun, Jim Carpenter’s three-laptop generated poetry reading (video clip), and Brian Kim-Stefans’ absurdist sense of humor.
Fluxus Event: Confused Puppets
This semester I’m teaching a class called Art, Games, and Narrative. We’re just wrapping up a unit on Fluxus. My students all created Fluxus events and Fluxus kits, many of which were inventive, creative and amusing. I’ve posted a gallery of captioned photos on Flickr documenting many of their projects.
After prolonged negotiations with Ambassador Trollheim, I agreed to move to Norway in May to teach at the University of Bergen in the department of Humanistic Informatics, on the condition that my title will be “Informatic Humanist” rather than “Humanist Informaticist.”
Scott Rettberg
Photo by Elinesca.
I gave a lecture at the University of Bergen yesterday, and had a chance to meet some of the students I’ll be working with this summer at UiB. I focused the lecture on “Multimodal Reading of Electronic Literature.” We started with Robert Coover’s essay “Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age” and some Russian formalist definitions of literature. Once we had established some of the tensions between image and text and interactivity and immersion, we we talked about how different ideas of reading can apply to work including Giselle Beiguelman’s “Code Movie 1,” Jim Andrews’ Nio, Stephanie Strickland’s “The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot,” Shelley and Pamela Jackson’s The Doll Games, Ingrid Ankerson/Otagaki Regetsu’s “Murmuring Insects” and Jason Nelson’s “Robot Party.”
I’ve just returned from a great journey to Western Australia. I already miss the beach, the parrots, and the Aussies. I’ve posted a slideshow on flickr.
The top of the mountain above Gudvangnen, on the way to Voss, at Stalheim hotel.
Cathedral Rock in Advancing Sunset
As the sun set, the oranges and reds of Cathedral Rock changed.
TRAINS: www.catherinejamieson.com/trains
This is a cool project derived from group activity from flickr. One flickr photographer, Catherine Jamieson, put out a call for train pictures, and then organized a nicely curated online exhibition, categorizing different types of shots. An excellent example of the kind of collective artistic activity that could only take place online.
Implementation Reading at the Steelyard
On Sunday, Nick and I read Implementation as part of the Provflux lectures at the Steelyard. We read from photos which were projected on the side of a truck. About 20 people were in the audience, sitting on stools and benches or lying on blankets spread out on the dirt floor. Hanna Wallach took these pictures.
Implementation: Moscow Bus Stop
An intrepid reader sent in this shot of Implementation near St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.
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