Lecturing in Bergen
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.”
[…] Yesterday Scott Rettberg spoke to our webdesign and web aesthetics students yesterday about electronic literature. Here’s a photo and links to the works he discussed. I was particularly happy about how wonderfully the students participated in the discussion, even in English. We have great students! Scott will be returning to Bergen in May, and will work with the web design and web aesthetics students on close readings of websites. This autumn semester he’ll be in charge of the Digital Media Aesthetics course, which is a combined upper level undergraduate and MA level course. It will be great having him at our department. […]