Scott Rettberg
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Review of Don DeLillo's Underworld
Underworld by Don DeLillo Hardcover, 832 pages Published by Scribner Publication date: October 1, 1997 ISBN: 0684842696 Reviewed by Scott Rettberg for Authors Review of Books 10/17
Review of Unbabbling by REYoung
Unbabbling by REYoung Paperback, 253 pages Published by Dalkey Archive Press Publication date: October 1, 1997 ISBN: 156478164X Reviewed by Scott Rettberg in Authors Review of Boo
Review of Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom
A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Peter Sekirin Hardcover, 387 pages Published by Scribner Publication date: October 1, 1997 IS
Review of Plays Well With Others
Plays Well With Others by Alan Gurganus Hardcover, 353 pages Published by Knopf Publication date: November 1, 1997 ISBN: 0394589149 Reviewed by Scott Rettberg, Authors Review of Bo
Review of Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle
Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle Hardcover, 466 pages Published by Viking Publication date: February, 1998 ISBN: 0670878812 Reviewed by Scott Rettberg on Authors Review of Books, 3/5/1998
Review of a Field Guide to Poetics
A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Edited by David Young, David Walker, and Stuart Friebert Paperback, 342 pages Published by Oberlin College Press Publication date:
Review of Salvation and Other Disasters
Salvation and Other Disasters by Josip Novakovich Paperback, 200 pages Published by Graywolf Publication date: May 1, 1998 ISBN: 1555972713 Reviewed by Scott Rettberg in Authors Re
Review of the Rise and Fall of English
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing a Discipline by Robert Scholes Hardcover, 192 pages Published by Yale University Press Publication date: March 1998 ISBN: 0300071515 Re
Review of Will Teach for Food
Will Teach For Food Edited by Cary Nelson Paperback, 248 pages Published by University of Minnesota Press Publication date: April 1997 ISBN: 0816630348 An Inter-Review by Dirk Stra
Review of Hail Babylon by Andrei Codrescu
Hail Babylon!: In Search of the American City at the Close of the Millenium by Andrei Codrescu Hardcover, 248 pages. Published by St. Martin's Press Publication date: May 1998 ISBN
Review of Memories of My Father Watching TV
Memories of My Father Watching T.V. by Curtis White 168 pages, paperback Published by Dalkey Archive Press Publication date: June 21, 1998 ISBN: 1564781895 Reviewed by Scott
Review of I Married a Communist
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth Hardcover, 323 pages. Published by Houghton Mifflin Publication date: October, 1998 ISBN: 0395933463 Reviewed by Scott Rettberg in Authors Revi
Chat with Octavia Butler
This is a transcript of a chat that origninally took place on my Mining Company site in November 1998. Octavia E. Butler joined us here on the Contemporary Literature site on Thurs
Interview with T.C. Boyle
I interviewed T.C. Boyle on November 23, 1998. The interview was originally published on the Authors site at the Mining Company. It was subsequently republished on tcboyle.net. T.
Review of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler Published by Seven Stories Press Hardcover, 365 Pages Publication Date: November, 1998 ISBN: 1888363891 Reviewed by Scott Rettberg in Autho
Interview with Bettina Drew
An Interview with Bettina Drew Bettina Drew, the author of a biography of Nelson Algren, Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side, recently published Crossing the Expendable Landsca
Chat with Kinky Friedman
Friday Night September 24th, 1999 at 9 P.M. EDT Kinky Friedman Hello Scott Looks like Kinky Friedman has joined us. Welcome, Kinky. Kinky Friedman Thanks Glad ing yeah! Scott
Chat with Chuck Palahniuk
Transcript--Chat with Fight Club Author Chuck Palahniuk November 22, 1999--9 P.M. EDT Scott Hi Chuck, welcome to the chat room. Chuck Palahniuk Hello from Portland, Oregon Sco
Chat with Chitra Divakaruni
Transcript of a chat with Sister of My Heart Author Chitra Divakaruni. February 22, 2000--9 P.M. EDT Scott: Welcome to the chat room, Chitra Joanna: Hi Chitra! Chitra Divakaru
Okay so I'm in Jersey Now
I recently transplanted from Chicago to New Jersey and I'm preparing for a semester of fun and adventure with the best students Richard Stockton College has to offer, the kind of s
No Prerequisites for Hypertext, Sign Up Today
Just a note to clarify: as a newbie, I misunderstood the LITT program's policy on 2000 level courses, and there are NO PREREQUISITES for either the Hypertext or the New Media Studi
The New Media Reader
I spent most of this morning reading selections from The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, which will be published by MIT Press in 2003. This book i
Hypertext and New Media Studies: What's in a Name?
Well, I have my syllabi online and I'm more or less prepared for the first week of classes. I'm a new faculty member teaching in a new track and so didn't expect my courses to fill
Distance Learning
Here at Stockton, as at various institutions around the country, debate is simmering as to whether or not distance learning should have a prominent role in the curriculum. I'm not
Confession
So the first two and a half weeks of the semester have gone by, and I've survived, more or less. Most of my students have as well. Sure, there were quite a few drops once people ac
October, November, and probably this is it for December
Well, those months went to my dissertation. Which is done. Finally. (and some teaching). I feel like a guilty blogger. So many things I should have written about/should write
Experiments in Irrational Exuberance
The talk I gave this spring at the Computers and Writing conference in Normal, Illinois: Experiments in Irrational Exuberance: The Present and Future of Electronic Literature or Ho
No Lawsuit After All
Just a quick note to note that several people have emailed me to ask what lawsuit I was talking about when I posted that last post quickly while demonstrating to my New Media Stude
ABR New Media Studies Focus
So I just read my intro to the ABR New Media Studies focus with a combination of elation and fear. It's always strange when you write something and then someone else edits it and t
Unready
Check out Unready.net -- Nick Montfort and Josh Keller's spoof of the Ready.gov initiative, which is encouraging millions of Americans to wrap their fears in plastic sheeting and d
Using Weblogs for Personal Attacks
The Diane Greco/Mark Bernstein organization is back at it again. It must have been a slow newsday in the hypertext kitchen. Dr. Greco was writing what appears on first flush (thoug
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @ Temple, Hyper
Last night I saw Noah Wardrip-Fruin give a talk at Temple in Philly. I was very impressed by his presentation. I've known Noah for a few years, and his projects are always intellec
What World is This?
Man oh man yesterday morning I was watching the Today Show while drinking coffee and they were interspersing a segment from one of the aircraft carriers (the crew lined up on board
My nephew has found his tongue
The date must be off on my sister-in-law's digital camera, since JP wasn't born in January 2000.
9.11 Emerging
Joseph McElrory, author of Women and Men has written a powerful essay about his experience of 9/11 for ebr.
Andre Karpov Flash
Recently, someone on Webartery sent out a link to Andre Karpov's Little Red Likelihood, a slick music/and/flash narrative piece. I spent a chunk of the morning looking at some of k
Noah's Slides
Noah has posted some of the slides he used during his talk at Temple that I "blogged" (this verb still feels very strange to me) last week. Hey thanks, Noah, I'll use these in a ta
Beastie Boys Protest Song
In yet another sign that this century is going to be completely weird, the Beastie Boys, who once sang "You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party," have released a new track "In a Wo
Media Effects Research
Googled *New Media Studies* yesterday and ran across the "Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State, where they're doing lots of interesting empirical or semi-empirical resea
Has the Gaming Industry Gone Hollywood?
Andrew Stern, coauthor of the forthcoming innovative Interactive Drama Facade, passes along a link to Greg Costikyan's take on the Game Developers Conference. "Inexorable business
The Dream Project
This is a cool idea. The Dream Project is a collective of dreamers and animators. Folks send in narrratives of their dreams, which are then selected by animators, who do short quic
Circulars
Circulars is a site aggregating poets' and artists' responses to the US global policy.
disagreeing with wiesel
Andrew Stern sent along an essay by Elie Wiesel. I disagree with the idea that "rational people" must be in favor of the coming war. ---- Andrew, Horseshit. With all due respect
Gardening
We're renting a house with a yard here in South Jersey. I've spent the entirety of my adult life in apartments, usually in urban areas, so the large expanse in back of our little
The Tyrrany of Email
An enjoyable post by Ole Eichorn about why email is bad.
The Return of Newspoetry
Newspoetry, which ceased continuous online daily publication of a poem a day about the news at the start of this year after 4 years, is firing up again, this time in the form of a
Sending a Strong Message to the French
This site suggests that Congress take a step further than renaming the French toast in the cafeteria, by giving back the Statue of Liberty to France.
Reminder from Gulf War I
It's easy to forget what war means. Peter Turnley's photos from the first Gulf War are a sobering reminder. We can expect still more freshly charred bodies in the region later this
Dogs are cool
My niece Kayley with Aunt Debbie's dog, Mackenzie.
Iraqi Body Count
Just added an Iraqi Body Count tracker to the blog. A useful resource, since the Pentagon isn't counting. Sigh. Read a little Michael Moore to help with the completely justified cy
The Iraqi Blogger
Dear Raed is a compelling blogreadingexperience allegedly coming out of Baghdad. Technology writer Paul Boutin speculates on whether or not the blog is real. Also of note: Kevin Si
I Better Stock Up on the Bottled War and Duct Tape
According to this story if the terror alert goes from orange to red, the people of New Jersey are supposed to stay home. Let's hope we stay orange -- or maybe they ought to come up
Protest Pictures
Some pictures from the Chicago Tribune of the protest that briefly shut down Lake Shore Drive yesterday sort of made me miss home. Also, some pictures from San Francisco.
Warblog Collective
A decent ongoing aggregation of war news can be found at command-post.org.
All animals are equal but some animals are . . .
George Soros, chairman of the Open Society Institute, wrote a short and thoughtful comment on the Bush doctrine. "Mr. Bush's administration deliberately fosters fear because it he
Snapshot Project Postering Day March 23rd
The Baghdad Snapshot Action is one of the more interesting methods of protesting the War I've run across on the Net. Since February, the group has posted snapshots taken of people
Margaret Atwood's Letter to America
Canadian author Margaret Atwood writes a spirited Letter to America. An open letter from the Globe and Mail, gleaned from boingboing. You're gutting the Constitution. Already your
ELO Preservation Archiving, and Dissemination Conference
This week I'll be traveling to Santa Barbara, California for the e(X)literature conference on the Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of Electronic Literature.
Tabbi, Memmott and Talley/Morrisey at The Iowa Review Web
TIR WEB A journal of New Media and experimental writing and art, The Iowa Review Web is published at the University of Iowa with support from the Department of English and in colla
New Media Studies Reviews online at ebr
The Electronic Book Review has released the New Media Studies review cluster I edited, which was also published in print last month in the American Book review. From my intro: This
New Media Down Under
A new issue of Real Time, an Australian Arts pub that pays a lot of attention to New Media, is out in print and online. The pub includes several reviews of books on new media and
Creative Commons
I just added a creative commons license symbol to this site, inspired by Jamie Boyle's superb presentation at the e(X)literature conference. CC licenses are legal documents that pe
Last thought on the War in Iraq
I'll soon take down the dead civilian counter. I'm glad that "we" "won" the war in Iraq and that the pace of death has slowed somewhat. A month, six thousand or so bodies, twenty b
Collaborative Projects in Multimedia Production
This semester, the students in my Multimedia Production course produced two collaborative web fiction projects: Atlantic City Murder and In Search of the Jersey Devil. I'm still no
Grand Text Auto
Grand Text Auto is a new blog that should be worth reading. Five of the smartest people working in new media, Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern (authors of the forthcoming interactiv
What is an ExLiterature Type?
From what I saw at the ExLiterature Conference, an "exliterature type" is, well, a few examples: * Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, instigator of the WELL, mover
One of Those Days
"Screw SUVs" is about all I can say about this.
Au revoir, Doctor Bernstein
Mark Bernstein resigned from the ELO today -- allegedly because he believes that it has "ceased to make any positive contribution to the field." I can say without reservation that
New works, DAC, ELO Audio
Just a few quick various links. Rod Coover's Cultures in Webs CD-ROM, a kind of anthropological journey featuring hypermedia essays about documentary filmmaking, photography and n
The F Word Style Guide
This intreprid explanation of the F word and its various uses by Ray Federman made me laugh out loud.
Summer (DAC) Reading
All of the papers from the recent Digital Arts and Culture Conference have been posted online. Looks like I won't be lacking for summer reading. It looks like games were a dominant
Noah Wardrip-Fruin on New Media
A brief interview with Noah Wardrip-Fruin was published in the Guardian today, in which he emphasizes the importance of efforts to archive new media objects, such as the ELO's PA
Proud of my (new media) brother
I'm very proud of my youngest brother Eric, who recently graduated cum laude from Dartmouth. Eric won the top prize in Literature at Dartmouth, the Perkins Prize for Literature (
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies issue #2 -- "Mediations" finally arrived in the mail the other day (a bit late for Fall 2002, but these things happen). It includes the START H
The Atlantic City Boardwalk Project and Liberty Lockdown
The past five weeks of my life have been occupied by my intensive summer multimedia production course. I'm pretty pleased with the two collaborative projects my students cranked ou
Kind of Blue
**Assignations, Frustrations, Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Assassinations** Kind of Blue, the serial email novel I wrote during the Summer of 2002, has just been publish
Email Narratives
Jill Walker has assembled a very useful list of email narratives. Many of them have unfortunately been lost to the archivists. Also of note: There's a very good profile of Bob Coov
MA Thesis, Michael Bérubé, Pavic
A few people have actually read my dissertation since I made it available online (actually, all theses and dissertations at the University of Cincinnati are now published as .pdfs)
Jeepers
Here's a picture I took of my nephew JP aka Jeepers and here's one of the first pictures he took, of my head The kid loves reading, well okay he can't read yet, but he loves it w
Written in the Flesh
Talking on the phone with Shelley Jackson yesterday, the hypertext pioneer, illustrator and author of The Melancholy of Anatomy discussed plans for what may be her most interesting
The Future of Ideas (Belongs to Disney)
I recently read Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, a properly alarmist text about the Internet, the law, copyright, and the slow s
Mark Twain's House
I've been meaning to post this picture of Mark Twain's House ever since I visited it last Spring in Hartford, Connecticut. It's well worth the visit, if only to check out the writ
Spineless Grows and Grows Like a Carbuncle or a Coral Reef
William Gillespie was on the island last week en route to his new gig at Brown, where he'll get his MFA as the second Electronic Writing Fellow (Talan Memmott is the first). I had
Five Years Unknown
Hey the Unknown turns five years old this week, sort of. We gave our first reading of the hypertext novel on September 5, 1998, at a labor day party that was well-attended by labor
Grand Text Auto Newbie
Today the young new media elites over at Grand Text Auto invited me to join their fraternity, and I eagerly pledged. The initation ritual involved masks, blue margaritas, an Atari
Arrrr, thar's a squall comin in
So this is my obligatory "I survived Isabel" blog entry. Isabel just kissed the Jersey Shore lightly, if with a bit of tongue. I went out to the Brigantine north sea wall at about
Girlfriends, Keyboards, Literacy
Back home in Chicago a few weeks ago, I played Girlfriends with my niece Kayley. Maybe Disney isn't all bad. Kayley's four and half years old. The experience of playing this game,
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Ahoy, maties! Avast! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Ye Landlubbers' opportunity to speak the tongue of brigands. Don yon eyepatch or I'll see ye walk the plank. (Thank
Kayley's on the Ball
I just posted an entry about playing a computer game with my niece at Grand Text Auto . . .
Movies
One of the cool things about Netflix, the DVD rental service I use, is that you can ask them to deliver a complete list of your rental history. I've been meaning to write little mi
Encouraging the WIPO to Consider Open Source
Just to followup on my earlier post on intellectual property: The EFF has launched a campaign to encourage the WIPO to reconsider its opposition to open source and collaborative ap
Two Conferences (Three I Guess)
Okay, so next August, I intend to go to ISEA 2004, a three Baltic city (Helsinki, Tallinn, and Helsinki) and a boat conference with a bunch of digital artists and critics and prob
Go Cubs Go
Predictions: Kerry Wood, Kenny Lofton -- Cy Young, Hall of Fame. The first time the Chicago Cubs have won in the Postseason since 1908. A lot of people are happy in Chicago. And Sa
Go Cubs
Just a quick note to say it is driving me absolutely nuts that I can't watch the Cubs on any kind of regular basis out here in Philly Land. It's the last week of the season, and as
Fall 2003 Syllabi Online
The course websites for my Fall 2003 courses: New Media Studies From Books into Movies Madness and Creativity are now online. As usual, my NMS students will be blogging their re
Paul Bremer's a Pretty Smart Guy
I just watched about 45 minutes of a news conference on rebuilding Iraq, and I was impressed with Paul Bremer. But I don't think he should be in charge of rebuilding Iraq. I think
Rainbow over Steelman Bay
I spotted this rainbow over Steelman Bay at about 5 P.M.
Cubs Win!
The Cubs fans are weeping, dancing in the streets, whooping in taverns, and kissing strangers over the first NL Central Division championship since 1989. The Tribune Photos of cele
Harry Caray Singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game
A little help getting into the spirit of the thing from Harry Carary: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Holy Cow!, Cubs Win!, How 'bout them Cubbies.
I like to dress up when I teach
(Not really -- this is before school started, on Stockton Drive in Lincoln Park, Chicago at Chris and Debbie's wedding). I just posted the pictures I took at Chris and Debbie's We
Death and Killing in Pomona, New Jersey
While I've been trying to focus on the celebratory mood of the Cubs victory and the potentiality of even better things, locally here around campus, we've been drenched with sad new
Ah well
The end of the Cubs dream went down, preserving the curse of the goat. I feel bad for my Dad, who's still waiting for the Cubs to make it to the World Series, just as he's been wai
Hello Autumn, Goodbye Garden
We've had a pretty mild fall so far, extending the growing season for my little vegetable garden. But all good things must come to an end. The hot peppers are mostly red now, and I
Jason Nelson, King of Mind-Blowing Interfaces
Jason Nelson, the poet and digital artist responsible for the curious interface/audio/language poetry to be found at heliozoa.com, is visiting Stockton to do a reading and visit wi
iTunes the best thing that ever happened to my laptop
I finally made the leap to OSX a few months back, and I'm finding that iTunes is one of the first computer programs I've run across in a long time that has actually changed one of
Misbehavin' Women
Another cool group blog -- Misbehaving.net is a group blog focusing on issues of women and technology featuring an all-star cast of intelligent women bloggers -- danah boyd, Cateri
Mütter Museum Just Plain Sick and Wrong
This Saturday, Nick, Rachel and I went to the Mütter Museum, a place filled with medical curiousities such as Chang and Eng's liver, dozens of skulls, wax models of various skin an
My Cat Likes Steak and Strawberry Yogurt
I don't really know what I should say about this. There's something fascinating (from my perspective) about this. Maestro's generally pretty polite when he sees you eating that sla
Darwin was right!
Finally, incontrovertible proof. Happy Halloween.
Reading in Feb, and Harry Mathews Exhibition at Penn
The ever-intrepid Nick Montfort has arranged a reading for February at Penn. Nick, William Gillespie and I will be reading from three collaborative projects, The Unknown (Gillespie
Everyday Ordinary Strange: An Interview with Jason Nelson
Poet Jason Nelson visited Stockton last week to give a reading and to visit with my New Media Studies students. Nelson is the hyperkinetic wizard behind heliozoa.com and a future p
There is a 1 in 65,092 chance that I will die from contact with hot tap water
The National Safety Council provides this handy chart providing information about your chances of being crushed to death by a large reptile, hit by lightning, and many other causes
Verve Remixed 1 and 2
Just a quick music appreciation note. I've been selling off some old CDs on half.com and allowed myself a few indulgent new music purchases. My favorite new albums are Verve Remixe
Books for Spring 2004 Classes
Several students have asked me what books I'll be using in next semester's courses. I just completed orders for Spring 2004. The complete list is below. Senior Sem students will al
Personal Blogging
I followed a link in a comment from Jill's post on writing and solitude to an interesting discussion at Planned Obsolesence on the division between the personal and academic in web
Location-Aware Narrative
From trAce, an article on Location Aware Narrative projects including [murmur], an "archival audio project" that establishes links between narrative fragments and specific points i
I'm Easily Amused
This church sign generator just tickles me pink.
America's Army
This is probably old news to most of you, but I just heard about the US Army's latest recruiting tool, America's Army. The army spent $4.5 million to develop the game, and is repor
Leave Nick's Mind Alone!
Nick, in response to the recent Copyright and the Network Computer: A Stakeholder's Congress conference, asks the DRM-obsessed of the world to Stop Handcuffing My Mind. Nick has a
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Guantanamo Detainees, Gore on Patriot Act
The BBC reports that the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the prolonged dentention without due process of "Enemy Combatants" from the Afghan war is constitutional. In
Hypercomics
I followed a link from Scott McCloud's site to Externality, a web comic featuring an amazing "infinite canvas" interface. The piece is part of Hypercomics, a site I'm looking forwa
McDonald's sues the dictionary
Claiming tradmark abuse, McDonald's is trying to censor the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, which includes "McJob" in the latest edition of the dictionary, where the term
Avatar Worlds
At GTA, Andrew has been following recent developments in avatar worlds. I hadn't been paying much attention to the virtual world scene for some time, and was pretty surprised by ho
Being There
Although I still haven't yet played it, the more I explore There and the other avatar/gameworlds, the more I become intruiged by the idea of integrating an avatar world experience
The Rosenberg Executions
Today my Books into Movies class starts discussing The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow's novel which fictionalizes the Rosenberg (Issacons in the novel) executions from the standpoin
web erasure and the memory hole
In recent weeks, I've followed the story in the Times of the quiet controversy over the White House's decision to place robot.txt files on their website preventing any pages mentio
Blogs for NMS Project
My students in New Media Studies are doing a collaborative weblog review project coinciding with Jill Walker's upcoming visit (Dec. 3rd). I've been trying to put together a list o
The Wireless Campus
At StocktonTech, Ken links to an excellent article on Dartmouth's wireless networking environment. Dartmouth has almost 500 access points and 97% of students now use laptops. The a
Cold War, Red Scare Links
Teaching The Book of Danielis calling to mind a frightening time in American history, made all the more frightening by the way in which some of the rhetoric surrounding the Red Sca
Second Life Gives Users IP Rights to their Characters
Lawmeme reports that Second Life, an avatar game discussed in recent posts, has made a decision to let player-characters keep the intellectual property rights they create. Players,
Tomorrow on Warblogs
This Modern World strip parodies warblogs such as Instapundit.
Distance Learning Model
I'm teaching my first hybrid distance learning course next summer (Books into Movies), and I'm participating in a committee at Stockton that addresses distance ed. I ran across Al
The Market in Unrealestate
On his weblog, Julian Dibbell chronicles his life as a seller of virtual goods and properties from Ultima Online. He claims that "On April 15, 2004, I will truthfully report to the
Everquest 101
Another essay from the State of Play conference, MMORPGS in the College Classroom by Aaron Delwiche, has me thinking through some of the problems I might encounter trying to use MM
I like having a static blogroll
Blogrolling, a service that lets users maintain links on their blogs and indicates which sites have been updated, is useful, but today, as Blogrolling was hacked and became useless
videochat and 21st century kids
I recently broke down, threw caution to the wind and purchased a new iBook and iSight camera. This afternoon I was hanging out in an ichat video conference with Jill (I was grading
Jill Walker's Upcoming Visit -- December 3rd
Congratulations to Dr. Jill Walker, who defended her dissertation this week in Bergen, Norway. Dr. Walker is celebrating the successful defense of her dissertation with a visit to
A Trip Through the Thickets of Law and Computer Games
At Law Meme, James Grimmelman has written an excellent article in the wake of the State of Play conference: "Free as in Gaming?." Grimmelman's article follows up (extensively) on a
Utopian Gaming?
A link off of Grimmelman's article led me to the curious AgoraXchange project, which will launch in January. A team including net artist Natalie Bookchin and political theorist Jac
Virtual Worlds
Over at GTA, Andrew found this link to Virtual Worlds Review, a review of the crop of virtual environments/avatar games that are becoming increasingly popular. I'm still noodling o
mojitos
When Jill was in town, we picked up some fresh lime, sugarcane, and mint and made mojitos. There's something about a cocktail that involves a lot of physical labor (after slicing
e-dreams
Last night while taking a break from grading I watched a Netflix DVD that had been gathering dust on the top of my DVD player for a while -- e-dreams -- which tracked the rise and
Cool Snow Sculptures
From the 2003 International Snow Sculpture Competition in Breckenridge. Link from Boing Boing.
Blog on Blogs
The students in my New Media Studies course this term produced Blog on Blogs, a review of several different types of weblogs. This semester was the first time we dedicated signific
A Response to the Unknown Rumors
I've gotten several calls and emails over the past week, and I just wanted to write a brief note to respond to the rumors swirling about the electronic literature community that th
Play four games at once
Arcadia definitely falls under the "wasting time while trying your multitasking" category.
Blog on Blogs
The students in my New Media Studies course this term produced Blog on Blogs, a review of several different types of weblogs. This semester was the first time we dedicated signific
Digital Epistolary Novel
Drew Davidson and Geoff Manaugh both emailed me today with links to a Wired story about Intimacies, a "Digital Epistolary Novel," told in e-mail messages, IMs, and webpages. The wo
Narrative in Habboworld
Brandon writes that that narratives are scurrying around like stainless steel rats in avatar worlds such as the Habbo Hotel, in which he is a "hobba": "there are grassroots efforts
Blog on Blogs
My Fall 2003 Intro to New Media Studies class collaboratively produced Blog on Blogs, a review of weblogs.
The Complete Guide to Your Academic Career
From Ken at StocktonTech, Phil Agre's Networking on the Network, A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students. Lots of good professional advice for PhD students (and junior facu
New on the blogroll
I recently added links to several sites to my blogroll (or whatever you call those links over there): Lawmeme, a very useful site on law and digital culture from the Information So
Smart Kid Writes Essay About "The Meddlesome Passenger"
Hey -- this makes my night. Robert Ford, a student in Matt Kirschenbaum's Spring 2003 graduate Introduction to Digital Studies course, just published Scott Rettberg’s Writerly Text
net.art.bolg
This thing is kind of cool -- a net art blog that is not about net art but which is net art collaged together in a blog. (Link from Brandon, who's one of the netartists involved).
Guardian Weblog Special
The Guardian is running a special on weblogs, and just handed out British blogging awards.
Online Scrabble
Finally, a version of Online Scrabble that works on macs.
ToySight
I recently downloaded the demo of ToySight, software that uses the mac's iSight camera to integrate object and motion control into a variety of videogames and "toys." The demo incl
Orange Alert!
I'm not eating any oranges for the next couple weeks, and I'm going to stay away from madcowburgers as well. Nothing but apples and chicken for me. Maybe some bacon. I think that w
Bjork singing late at night on the Brooklyn Bridge
Over at Scribbling.net, ran across this post on an interview Björk gave as part of the New Yorker Festival in September. I didn't even know she moved to New York. The post includes
Implementation
Nick Montfort and I are working on Implementation, a sticker novel. We'll be releasing the first installment in February. I posted some pictures from the first sticker untitled sti
Sent
I just ran across Sent, which is being billed as "the first major exhibition of phonecam art in the United States." The exhibition will include contributions both by amateurs and b
I'm Off to Norway
I'm heading off to Bergen, Norway in the morning. I'll be there in time for Jan Rune Holmevik's doctoral defense, and I'm told that I'll get to try Reindeer steak for the first tim
Collector's Accessory
Wow what a great toy for a book, cd, or dvd fetishist. Brian sent along a link to the Intelliscanner Collector, a personal barcode reader for the mac with integrated software that
Implementation, Joint Work
The project description for Implementation is now online. Nick and I will be launching the project February 14th with a reading at the "Joint Work" reading at Kelly Writers House a
Encore 4.0, TraceBack
Yesterday I attended Jan Rune Holmevik's dissertation defense at the University of Bergen. While I haven't yet had a chance to read it in its entirety, from attending his defense,
Norwegian Disputas and Cuisine
Jan Rune Holmevik's dissertation defense left me fairly glad that I got my Ph.D. in the American system, where the defense is rigorous, but not confrontational. In the American sys
the Annual Stockton State of the Soup preference survey
At the start of each semester on the first day of class, I distribute a brief questionnaire and ask the students to briefly interview and introduce each other. It usually serves to
Bergen
It was strange to see Bergen on the news tonight. I recognized the same port I had seen from a mountain last week today the scene of a desperate struggle to rescue sailors from a
Course Sites for Spring 2004 online
The websites for my Spring 2004 classes: Senior Seminar in Postmodernism, Internet Writing & Society, and Hypertext, are now online, and the semester's off to a good start. It was
Travel, Identity, Blogging
Last Thursday, in my Internet Writing & Society class, we discussed identity, and in what aspects specific media genres (for instance the "homepage," webcam site, MUD, livejournals
Internet-Free Day
I missed this one -- Jan 25th was International Internet-Free Day. "It makes a lot of sense to use the web to tempt people away from the web", say the Internet-Free Day crew, "It's
Corporate Multimedia Strategy
From Jill's blog, I ran into Douweo Singa's blog -- in addition to a cool collaborative flash refrigerator poetry thingie and some Google Hacks, in a recent post he makes some inte
The World is Melting
A British newspaper reports that the Pentagon has told Bush that the world is melting, or rather freezing, in parts. In response, we will be developing more weapons and reinvesting
The Modern Word
While looking up something for one of my postmodernism students, I ran across The Modern Word, one of my favorite sites from the "old literary internet" I used to explore back in "
Implementation Pics
The first Implemenation Pics are coming in. We've heard from Bergen, Philadelphia, and Duluth. Ben Franklin is my favorite so far.
Joint Work
This weekend, I get to see four of my favorite people. Jill's visiting, and reveling in her new-found ability to add cool little videos to her blog, and the boys of The Unknown ar
Imitation a Form of Flattery?
One of my students ran across the site of a teacher in Texas who's using the same weblog review assignment as the one my new media students did last semeseter. I don't really mind
Jabberwacky and Jabberwock
We're reading Sherry Turkle's Life on the Screen in Internet Writing & Society, and tomorrow we're discussing artificial intelligence. While googling around trying to see if there
Jabberwacky
We're reading Sherry Turkle's Life on the Screen in my Internet Writing & Society class, and discussing AI. While googling around trying to see if there was a working version of De
Outside Stockton
This Monday, while Dirk and Jill were visiting, after I'd given them the campus tour, we went for a quiet stroll in the woods around Lake Fred, where we saw a heron placidly stan
Bob Quits Reality Show Smoking Cessation Blog
This weekend I was in New York City, where the streets were plastered with posters for Bob Quits, an extensive multimedia quit-smoking campaign. What's most interesting about the p
The Ivy-Covered Console
Nick Montfort slipped the URL of Grand Text Auto into a New York Times Circuits article, The Ivy-Covered Console. The article is about the growth of games studies and an upcoming c
I'm thinking about a midterm exam
Matt Kirschenbaum's provacative midterm exam has me thinking seriously about new media assessment.
The Grey Album
Wow -- at home Monday night, I downloaded the Grey Album, a remix of the Beatles "White Album" with Rapper Jay-Z's "Black Album" done by DJ Dangermouse, without even realizing I wa
Debunking Urban Legends
I ran across the amusing Urban Legends Reference Pages from a link at Lawmeme about an attempt by Corbis to track down somebody who mashed together a photo of John Kerry and Jane F
"The Ball" to Be Blown Up
Grant DePorter, the Chicago Cubs fan who bought, for $113,824, the ball which was bobbled by another Cubs fan during the shameful turning point of last year's playoff series has hi
Maestro is Rapt
Friday night at the Rettberg house -- I've never seen Maestro so rapt by the television set as tonight, while we watched Winged Migration, a great documentary about the migration
VR as Placebo
Dennis Jerz linked to this article at the BBC which describes recent pain-relief therapies that use VR, such as a "Snow World" game that burn victims play while while their bandage
More Location-Aware Narrative
A few months back, I linked to Kate Armstrong's trAce article on location-aware narrative.Jill then found a list of wireless art projects and later linked to The Case of the Molnda
&Now Conference
Dirk talked me into flying to Cincinnati to drive with him to South Bend, Indiana to attend &Now: a Festival of Writing as a Contemporary Conceptual Art and do another reading with
Highlights from the Protest
Highlights from an antiwar protest (on the anniversary of the launch of "major combat operations" in Iraq) stumbled onto while visiting Chicago last weekend included: A truly impr
Blue Company is Back Online
The archive of Rob Wittig's email-and-sketches fiction Blue Company, which inspired my own email fiction Kind of Blue, is back online, and available free of charge. We're talking
Cool XML photo ap, and jukebox ap for blogs
If I have time this weekend, I might try and see if I can install photoblox, one of several very cool little Laszlo widgets that Marc Canter is using on his blog.
StickerNation
StickerNation won the 2004 SxSW Web Award for Art. The site hosts a bunch of .pdfs of downloadable sticker art, photos of stickers around the world, and sticker art news.
Spring Coming -- Natives Ready
A Googled Story
He talked too much / that got him into big trouble / She went on for hours / without actually saying anything Several of the wise men in India had told the king at different times
One Word
Jill stumbled upon one word, a nifty little writing game. Each day the site features one word. Each participant gets 60 seconds to freewrite from that word, and after posting his o
My Left Behind
Note to self: at some point I'm going to write a postapocalyptic novel with that title, the protagonist of which will be one buttock of an apostate who did not make the cut during
Exercises in Style
Ken Tompkins forwarded me a link to the excellent Exercises in Style, a comic project inspired by Queneau's work of the same name.
Blogfiction
Rob Wittig and Jill Walker, among other experts, comment on fictions told in the form of blogs in The Guardian, "How to write a blog-buster."
iSight on Wireless Walking Down the Street
This afternoon while chatting with Jill, I decided to test the limits of my wireless connection. It went further than I thought. Unbeknownst to me, Jill was taking snapshots as I s
Welcome to the World, Charlie Rettberg
Thanks to my sister-in-law Rachel's excellent timing, I was able to meet my brand new nephew, Charlie Clayworth Rettberg, on his birthday last Wednesday in between the &Now Confere
Happy Easter
and Passover too. Peace.
Unknown Trip Report &Now Conference
William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Rob Wittig Reporting from Notre Dame University &Now Conference April 5-6, 2004 W: Compared to the Holocaust Conference going on up in Massa
Calls for help
Probably because my CV is online, and because the end of the semester is near, over the past week I've gotten calls for help from several students at schools other than mine. Doing
Email narratives in the NY Times
In "Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds Digitally", New York Times reporter Adam Baer covers e-mail fictions including Intimacies by Eric Brown and Rob Wittig's Blue Company 2002 and
The Grab a Book Game
The results of my participation in the "grab a book game": "This is the beginning of Serval's novel." From George Perec's 53 Days, which I have not read. Instructions: 1. Grab the
SubEthaEdit Collaborative Writing/Coding Tool
This weekend Nick and I used SubEthaEdit to work on installment 4 of Implementation. SubEthaEdit is a great piece of freeware for Mac OSX, allowing multiple people to work on one d
Blog Fiction on the BBC
Jill Walker was interviewed by the BBC World Service program The Word on Blog Fictions, along with Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian, political blogger and Stuart Hughes, a BBC journ
Unknown Writing Jam
In what could become a regular occurence, this afternoon the Unknown and Rob Wittig got together on iChat and SubEthaEdit for an an hour and a half writing jam in the vein of a Ne
Live Music Archive
This is awesome. This evening while grading position papers, I was downloading concerts by Mike Watt, John Langford, Billy Bragg and some band named "deepbannanablackout" that a fr
World Intellectual Property Rights Day
Yesterday was World Intellectual Property Rights Day. And I didn't even know that was a holiday. At the festivities celebrating the event, they gave away NOTHING and got into sever
Archival Unknown
We're now distributing the complete files of The Unknown as an 89MB downloadable Zip file, and tonight The Unknown became the first hypertext listed by the Open Source Books projec
Proud of my students
While I've only gotten through the Hypertext and Internet, Writing & Society papers and have barely made a dent in the 640-or-so page stack of Senior Seminar essays, I've got to sa
Implementation 50% done, 500 photos
Implementation is half-done now. We just posted the fourth installment (of 8), and the site now includes 531 photographs of applied stickers from Philadelphia, Chicago, New York,
Harry Mathews Reading
Last night I tore myself away from the 1000-page grading marathon of the past week to take the train up to Philadelphia for a unique experience. Harry Mathews, one of the most int
Open Knowledge Projects Win at Ars Electronica
This year the Prix Ars Electronica honored two projects that have helped to make vast amounts of human knowledge available and legally accessible. Wikipedia, the free, community-bu
Frontier to go Open Source
Dave Winer recently announced that Userland will soon be releasing the kernel on which Frontier (the system used for the blogs here at Stockton) and Radio are based for open source
Rettberg on Mars
To celebrate his 60th Birthday, my Dad is taking a trip with my Mom and Chris and Mike Scott to Germany next week. I was talking on the phone with my Dad tonight, and googled up so
Contemporary Art Burns
The Times reports that more than 100 works of contemporary art were destroyed in a conflagration at a London warehouse. There's something strange and oddly fascinating about so muc
trAce New Media Article Competition
Congrats to the winning authors of trAce's New Media Article competition. Review category - "A Bad Machine Made of Words" by Nick Montfort Opinion category - "Are cell phones new
Some Memorial Day Thoughts
Probably because it's Memorial Day, and because I just finished reading a generational novel, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (more on that later), I woke up this morning thinking a
Cicadas May Be a Bad Snack
While visiting my alma mater's site, I ran across the following tidbit, which will have serious repurcussions on my diet this insect-rich summer: Cicadas may, in fact, be bad to ea
Cavewriting Interview
Back in December, during one of the most severe snowstorms of last winter, Jill Walker and I met up with Josh Carrol, Robert Coover, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and spent an afternoon
Slide
Fun at the Park
Eric Rasmussen Online
My good friend Eric Rasmussen now has a blog. Eric is working on his Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois/Chicago, where he's specializing in American Lit. Eric is one of
Untitled App
After a great break in Chicago for my father's 60th Birthday and numerous adventures with the kids (Shedd Aquarium, Cubs Game, and the Treehouse exhibit at the Morton Arboretum), I
Tree
The view from inside one of the treehouses at the Morton Arboretum's InTREEguing Tree House exhibit.
Chicago Earthquake
Years ago, I wrote half of a novel called Agency (maybe someday I'll finish it). One of its plotted events was an earthquake in Chicago. I guess they actually had one earlier this
Supreme Court Protects Constitution
Just a quick note to say Hurrah for the recent Supreme Court terrorism decisions. Even the conservative court partially responsible for the Bush presidency thought the system of ch
Font Play
Designer Rick Valicenti and friends are up to some fun letter-play at Playground '04. Twelve typographers have accepted Valicenti's "invitation to create an alphabet of 26 charact
Michael Moore's Blog
I just got back from the theater, where I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, a film which made me laugh and almost cry a couple times. Although I expected to pretty much agree with Moore, I have
Acid-Free Bits
I've been meaning to blog Acid-Free Bits. The online and print document authored by Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin is one result of the Electronic Literature Organization's P
Terminal Tours
Critic and novelist Tom LeClair recently published a novel Passing On. While the novel itself is a print novel, in part about a company that takes the dying on trips when they have
Language (Video) Games for the Military
In "Virtual Camp Trains Soldiers in Arabic," the Times reports on a video game being developed at the University of Southern California's School of Engineering as a tool for teachi
Fashion Sense
Mark my words -- some day this kid is gonna be a rock and roll star.
Just Close Your Eyes and Think of England
This week Jill and I were in London then Nottingham for the trAce Incubation Conference at the same time as Hanna was in Cambridge. The result? Her Majesty's Implementation updat
trAce Incubation Trip Report
I'm just about over the jet lag from a brief jaunt to Nottingham, England for the 2004 trAce Incubation Symposium. While the conference didn't offer any earthshaking new paradigms,
FILE 2004
Implementation has been selected for inclusion in FILE 2004. FILE is a cool annual festival of electronic literature and network art held in Brazil. This year the event will be hel
Cousin Ben
A few years back at a family gathering, a relative from Arkansas on my mother's side told me that we were related to Benjamin Franklin. I didn't really buy it at the time (I always
Advances in American Medical Technology
Via the Chicago Tribune, medicinal leeches are now available from LeechesUSA for approximately $7.50 a leech. The next time you get a head cold, you know where to go. The site incl
W Videos
It's getting to be that time of the season -- the DNC and RNC are right around the corner, the theaters are filled with documentaries recounting the Bush administration's first ter
Spectropolis
This looks like an interesting event for anyone interested in artistic uses of mobile media: Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, October 1-3, 2004 is a three-day event th
Gardenblog 2004
The gardening has been good this summer. I had some great mesculun salads coming in May through mid-July. Since July, the lettuce has bolted, but I'm still kept in carrots, green o
Unknown for the iPod
Last week Dirk Stratton and William Gillespie of the Unknown visited for a few days of leisure and work on the grand old hypertext novel. While I cooked seafood, Dirk finally proof
Drivers Cruising
Andrew Stern, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, and Scott Rettberg raise a toast to Nick Montfort while onboard the ISEA Silja Opera "Interfacing Sound" Cruise in Mariehamn Harb
In Transit
Here's a little video collage about transport, "in transit."
Oslo Airport Art
After a week of electronic art at ISEA and much travel, it was refreshing to hit the second stop of our three-flight journey from Helsinki back to Bergen at Oslo airport, one of t
I'd Better Review My Zork
On October 27th at Kelly Writer's House at Penn in Philadelphia, I'll be hosting an interactive fiction event, "Interaction Fiction Walkthroughs." When I agreed to serve in this ro
Ulriken
Norway is a lot nicer this time of year, when it's light out for about 17 hours a day, than it was the last time I visited in February, when it was light out about 6 hours of the d
Photos From My Travels
Late at night on the first night of the ISEA 2004 interfacing sound cruise, just after Scanner's performance. We took some time out from the Tallinn conference to explore the
The Intruder by Natalie Bookchin, Xiao, Xiao
While doing a little research and deciding what creative works to teach in my intro to new media studies course, I decided to catch up on some work that I hadn't caught before due
ISEA Fashion (Wearable Computing) Report
The Tallinn portion of the ISEA conference was focused on wearable computing. Although I didn't attend many of the panel sessions on this topic, my general impression from the keyn
In Motion
Here's another little video collage, "in motion." I still need to work out how to clip those irritating blips when the loop reloads, but I like having the audio in these. I'm clear
Playboy's Girls of Gaming
CNN is running a story on the upcoming October issue of Playboy, which will feature a photospread on the Women of Gaming -- that is the virtual characters. Perhaps it won't be too
Norwegian Idyll
The last day I was in Norway, Jill and Aurora and I went out Kate Goodnow's place for a visit. She and her husband Rune live on an island adjancent to a fjord on the west coast of
Goodbye Nate Forneris
I just found out that in July a friend of mine from college was found dead in his apartment in Duluth, Minnesota from an apparent suicide. Nate and I acted in the Coe College produ
The Digital Arts and Electronic Literature Speaker Series
Thanks to the New Jersey Humanities Council, this fall, a maelstrom of electronic literature activity is descending on the Atlantic City area, with The Digital Arts and Electronic
September Salad
A September garden treat. A pool of olive oil. Three of the last tomatoes of the season (Orange Marglobe, Taps, and Mr. Stripey). Two varieties of fresh-clipped basil. Hefty slice
Newsgaming
Kind of cool -- earlier in the week, I heard a comment from Stan Corkin, who used to be chair of graduate studies when I was at U of Cincinnati, on NPR's Morning Edition. Tonight,
Information Graphics/Body Count
The New York Times marked the 1000th American military death in Iraq with this informative (and moving, an in information graphics kind of way) interactive graphic A Look at Those
Implementing England by the Pound
This week's Implementation update will include both the 7th and pentultimate installment of the sticker novel and a large parcel of photos sent in by our anonymous Cambridge corres
Merit Badge Grading System
This semester, Jeremy Bushnell is trying out an interesting approach to grading. Rather than collecting points or letter grades, students earn merit badges (stickers) for each assi
We can stop capitalizing the internet, net and web
Finally -- Wired (and who made them the style police anyhow) has announced that we can stop capitalizing "internet," "web," and "net," though we'll keep the caps on "World Wide Web
You walk into class, and you forgot . . . today is the final exam (and you're in your underwear)
Just before I hit the hay . . . via The Endless Faculty Meeting (fabulous blog title, aint it), a great story from the Times, about a common dream of study-failure and its psycholo
The Unknown in Text
(image from Toggle via Andrew's GTxA post)
A Cool Way to Send a Love Letter
Today Jill sent me a brief billet-doux in the form of a Message Quest -- a nicely designed little interactive graphic quest which, when solved, reveals a secret message. The proje
Book for Tenure?
Matt Kirschenbaum points to The Book as the Gold Standard for Tenure and Promotion in the Humanistic Disciplines, a study by Leigh Estabrook at the University of Illinois Graduate
ArtBots
Tomorrow night, I finish a report. Monday, I grade a stack of papers. Today, I go see the ArtBots in Harlem. Maybe they'll have one of them paper-grading bots . . .
Peace Fountain and Shelf Fungus
My cousin Michael and I walked up through Central Park from 92nd all the way up to Harlem at 128th and Amsterdam for the Artbots show. Along the way, we saw the most brilliant yell
T.C. Boyle
I came up with a formulation years ago of levels of fame. The first level of fame is: Nobody knows who you are, and nobody cares. The second level of fame is what I have achieved:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Artbots
There's a slick new partially illustrated edition of the classic Infocom IF game based on Douglas Adams's novel (via Nick at GTxA). Also at GTxA, Mary links to a nice video from th
TSA Derails "Peace Train" Threat
CNN reports another great victory in the war in terror:A plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after passenger Yusuf Islam -- formerly known as po
Tomorrow Night, Michael Moore, Friday Morning, John Kerry
So tomorrow night Michael Moore is speaking at Stockton, and then Friday morning I'm picking up William Gillespie and meeting Nick Montfort at the John Kerry talk at Penn. I'm look
Times article on sticker art
I got quoted in a September 26th New York Times Arts and Leisure article "Download, Peel and Stick, and All the World's a Gallery" on sticker art, though they didn't take the bait
Rally Pics
The line for the "Evening with Michael Moore" at Stockton College stretched all the way around Big Blue. More than 5,000 people showed up, the most people to attend a single event
VOTE!!!
VOTE!!! This is the mother of all elections. I'm proud of the Stockton students, most of whom report that they've registered to vote, and I'm proud of the faculty who've manned th
Hard Work
Harry Shearer offers this musical tribute to one of George Bush's debate mantras: It's Hard Work being the President of the United States of America.
Bush Motorcade Spotted on I-95
You can imagine my surprise. While I didn't see the President himself, this sure looks like the type of vehicle they might use to cart him around.
All Entertainment, All the Time
Via Eric Rasmussen, I encoutered this wonderful essay by Mark Edmundson, "All Entertainment, All the Time." Edmundson, who teaches English at the University of Virginia, recounts h
Implementation (fin)
This Friday night at 1 AM, after spending about twenty minutes debating whether to go with "cold cold," "welcoming," "permanent," "moist," etc. or finally "accomodating" ground, Ni
Awwwww
Sometimes New Jersey feels far from home. My Aunt Deb sent along some pictures of her new puppy playing with my nephew JP, and a pumpkin carving party. On a gray Sunday in Jersey,
A reason to go to Texas
Someday, when I'm older, I might want to spend some time in Austin, where the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center now hosts The Don DeLillo Archive. He's one of the few living
New Positions in New Media Studies
Georgia Tech has announced a search for a tenure-track position in Digital Media Theory and Practice, requiring evidence of sophisticated digital practice and theoretical insight i
Go Vote, Right Now
It's Election Day. If you haven't voted yet, what are you doing reading my blog? Go vote for Kerry/Edwards, or go vote for the status quo. As a special incentive, if you go vote, y
Ohio
I knew I left Ohio for a reason. Ok, Bush won, fair and square, his first unquestionably legitimate election as President. The evangelicals and the hawks and the millionaires will
I Can't Sleep, Can't Stop Thinking About Ohio, Ohio, Ohio
I've got to be at school for precepting day at 9AM tomorrow but I can't sleep until I know about OHIO. Cuyahoga County, come on, Cuyahoga County. It hasn't been a great election so
Gay Marriage Issue Resolved
I'll miss the pagentry of all those gay weddings, but I'm behind Bush. Although I voted against him, after the election we once again become one nation, and so I'm now a Bush-backe
Fleeing, Seeking Political Asylum in Norway
It's darker than Canada but they've got better health care and free higher education. Their right wing is like Hillary Clinton. Count me Norwegian. Not really, I'm still an America
Implementation @ Slought Foundation
On December 28th, I'll be participating in a panel discussion: "Ubu meets Gertrude (A Post-textual Avant-garde)" along with Johanna Drucker, Christian Bok, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and
Video Archives of Conferences
The last two conferences I attended both created video archives of the conference. Cool. You can be there even if you weren't. Here's the State of Play conference on law and virtua
Sticker Art in Amsterdam
Last night I was stranded in Amsterdam after the connecting flight from Bergen had mechanical difficulties, resulting in a 2 hour delay, which resulted in me missing the only fligh
Poems That Go Tonight
Tonight, Megan Sapnar and Ingrid Ankerson of Poems that Go will be on campus for the last event in the Digital Arts and Electronic Literature series this fall. Poems that Go is the
Blog Books in the Times
I was quoted in an article in today's New York Times about books by bloggers. In the article, I might come across like the resident skeptic (and I'm missing a comma). I was trying
Still More Scrabble
Alright, I guess I'm discovering that people do, in fact, use the internet for other things than reading interactive literature. I think I'm getting addicted to Games.com which has
Flickr Day in the Life
On December 21st, I participated in the Flickr "day in the life of . . ." project. I spent most of the winter solstice grading papers, but I did make into Chicago to buy some books
Killing Time in Airports -- Travel Notes
IN ZURICH I walked from my house to the Rod and Reel at about noon, yesterday grabbed a reuben for lunch, called a cab, took a cab from the Rod to the Atlantic City Bus Terminal, p
Implementation Slought Recording
The audio archive of "Ubu meets Gertrude (Towards A Post-textual Avant-garde)" featuring: Johanna Drucker, Christian Bök, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, from th
I haven't blogged for a while
The frightening part is that I haven't even missed blogging. I've been uploading pictures wily-nily at Flickr, commenting a bit at Grand Text Auto, getting a little bit of offline
Mary Flanagan Visit
Yesterday, Mary Flanagan visited Stockton. Mary Flanagan holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and studied film studies and experimental filmmaking. In the 1990s, Flanagan was a
"Interactive Drama" in Matrix Online
Gamespy reports that Warner Brothers has employed a full-time troupe of 20 actors who will interact live with players of Matrix Online. "These people will assume the roles of popul
A Turkish Bath in Paris
When Jill and I were in Paris, we visited a hammam, a turkish steambath. Jill had visited one in Copenhagen and insisted it must be a part of the minivacation. I was a little reluc
How DeLillo Writes
I've been an avid fan of Don DeLillo ever since David Foster Wallace accused me of ripping off DeLillo's style in a story I wrote, when I was taking a workshop with Wallace at ISU,
Mystery House Taken Over
I've just completed my first foray into interactive fiction, which has been published as "Mystery House Remixedup" on the Turbulence site, where it is downloadable along with other
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
As part of our interactive fiction unit, students in my intro to new media studies course recently spent some time with Douglas Adam and Steve Meretzky's classic 1984 IF Hitchhiker
Implementation, Romanzo
Over Easter weekend, Jill and I were visiting Nick Montfort and Hannna in Philadelphia when we got an exciting bit of email from Riccardo Boglione. He is translating our sticker no
WordPressed
Here's a new blog. Hurray. I'm playing with wordpress and testing out ecto.
Splotch by Sol LeWitt
Migration in Progress
I'm in the process of getting my old files timestamped and categorized. After some difficulty trying to get my data migrated from Manila, I managed to export the text as an RSS fee
Sand Enhanced
Sand Enhanced The ocean paints the beach in subtle patterns. iPhoto's enhance really made the patterns in this photo stand out.
Working Backwards, Creating a Richer Archive, Double Posting
I've decided to put some energy into to using this site to create a richer archive of my blogging and other web writing. I'm test-driving ecto, a desktop blogging tool for offline
Dali on the Steps
Dali on the Steps Dali on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
With Hidden Noise
With Hidden Noise My Unknown amigo Dirk Stratton wrote an excellent story about this readymade, published as a book and website by Spineless Books. I should also mention the ex
A Baker's Dozen Book Reviews
I posted many of the book reviews I wrote 1997-1999 for Authors Review of Books, the online book review I edited when I was doing the Authors site at the Mining Company. Reviews of
The View from Above
The View from Above A satellite view of my neighborhood on Google Maps, which now has satellite imagery.
Memory Mapping
A new memorymap group has formed at Flickr. People are annotating satellite maps from Google Maps of places that are important to them. I can see a lot of narrative potential i
Day of Scholarship Hypertext Reading
Stockton hypertext student authors Bob Geise, Tricia Greto, Lauren Millard, Leia Park, Josh Kelly, Dan Ackerman and Michael Rivero will be reading their storyspace and web hypertex
Uno!
Uno! Happy Birthday to my nephew Charlie, who turned 1 today.
Implementation next to the Tower of Pisa
Implementation next to the tower Originally uploaded by marinella. The first photos of the Italian translation of Implemenation, from Marinella in Pisa.
Interviews from the archives
I just added some new old material from my Miningco days: interviews of T.C. Boyle and Bettina Drew, as well as transcripts of chat/interviews with Chuck Palahniuk, Octavia Butler,
Pastel Sky Over Steelman Bay
Pastel Sky Over Steelman Bay
Bareword
I spent some time last night over at Gavin Inglis' Bareword. Scottish writer Inglis is one of the few hypertext authors I'm aware of who has written hypertexts according to the "br
Creative Archive Licence
The UK has launched an initiative to release materials from the archives of the BBC, Channel 4, the Open University, and the British Film Institute in a form of the Creative Common
They Are Eating Pizza Every Day
Altantic County, where I live, has the leading death rate in the state of New Jersey, with 1,010 deaths per 100,000 residents, or 200 more than the state average. This was the sub
One Man's Rubbish, Another Man's Canon
This is pretty darn cool news that must have classicists jumping up and down. The Independent reports that, using infrared imaging technology developed for satellites, Oxford Unive
Quick trip to Providence
Shortly after my next class, I'm hitting the highway for a quick trip to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where I'm giving a talk tomorrow titled "Electronic Writing f
Shelley Jackson this Thursday
The Stockpot release party and reading will be held on April 21st at 8PM, B126 Stockpot is Stockton's literary magazine featuring poetry, art, and fiction by Stockton students. I'm
William Gillespie's MFA Reading
William Gillespie's Reading William Gillespie's MFA thesis reading at Brown University was a resounding success. William is the second writer to complete the Brown MFA creative
Shelley Jackson Reading
Shelley Jackson Writing Shelley Jackson visited Stockton last night to give a reading as the featured reader at the Stockpot literary magazine release party. Shelley read a bra
Implementation to be featured at Provflux 2005
Nick and I recently got word that Implementation has been accepted by Provflux 2005, both as an Intervention (live event) as an exhibition. Implementation's second gallery exhibiti
You Are Beautiful
Yes you are! "You Are Beautiful" is a meme-type sticker and installation art project, centered in Chicago but distributed around the world. The most cool thing about this projec
Contagious Media Showdown
Got a "ridiculous and pointlesss" idea along the lines of The Dancing Baby, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, or The Star Wars Kid? Eyebeam is looking for such projects for their Con
Brookdale Writers Conference
Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the annual Brookdale Writers Conference. Although I've shown my own and others' electronic literature projects in a variety of c
Another Semester Come and Gone
I just turned in final grades! A weeklong marathon of about 70 final papers and projects has come to an end! Let summer begin! Actually, let planning for summer school begin -- my
Strawberry Not Quite Ripe
Stawberry Not Quite Ripe
Love the Unknown (Audio)
The Unknown MP3 CD is nearly complete. What can I say? William's ambitious. One of the original goals of the project was to record every scene in the Unknown and to make the audio
MiT4: the work of stories
Drew Davidson passes along word of the recent fourth Media in Transition conference at MIT. From the list of abstracts and papers, it looks like the conference was indeed an intere
Randomly Generated Newspoem
Late last night, after working on an exciting new project to be described at a later date, William and I wrote a Randomly Generated Newssonnet based on a script one of Willliam's f
Monticello from the Garden
Monticello from the Garden I visited my brother Eric in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend, and we spent a wonderful afternoon at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate, wh
Announcing the 60 Second Story Competition
We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much time for them. Most digital cameras and webcams allow you to take one minute of video and audio at resolutions suitable fo
Report from the Contagious Media Showndown Launch Thing
Thursday night Jill and I attended the launch party for the Contagious Media Showdown and produced this report on the event. Download/Play 4.1MB QuicktimeDownload/Play 0.8MB Quick
Implementation: Moscow Bus Stop
Implementation: Moscow Bus Stop An intrepid reader sent in this shot of Implementation near St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
ELO's New Site
The Electronic Literature Organization’s new site, designed and engineered by Nick Montfort, is now in place. One new feature of the site is a showcase designed to feature exemp
Painter in Central Park
Implementation Reading at the Steelyard
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
Implementation at Cube2 Gallery during Provflux
PiPs did an excellent job with the Implementation display, including a wall of photos and a DVD running on a monitor in the storefront, at the Cube2 Gallery in Providence
The Illustrated <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>
I recently ran across this ambitious and obsessive illustration project: Zak Smith's Illustrated Gravity's Rainbow includes an image for every single page of Pynchon's masterpiece
Hobo Tale
This summer I've been experimenting with web video a bit. Last weekend while attending Provflux and trying to motivate Hanna Wallach to put together a 60 second story, I spent som
Ode to the Joystick
Today's New York Times offers an article that investigates the origins of the joystick and credits it as one of the most overlooked acheivements of the last century.
Last Day of the 60 Second Story Competition
The first 60 Second Story Competition ends tomorrow. If you've been thinking about it, send your submission in today! We don't want to end with "Crap," the most recent submission.
Treason Spam
An interesting variant on the Nigerian scam spam, I got this message in my inbox today, the participation in which, I think, would technically constitute bank fraud and treason as
Trains, A Group Show
Trains, A Group Show TRAINS: www.catherinejamieson.com/trains This is a cool project derived from group activity from flickr. One flickr photographer, Catherine Jamieson, put o
Flowering Sage
Flowering Sage
Heart Shaped Berry
Heart Shaped Berry
And the Winner is . . .
After much deliberation, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 60 Second Story Competition. The judges selected "Charles" by Steve Himmer as the winner of the first 60 Seco
Grand Canyon Just After Sunrise
Grand Canyon Just After Sunrise
Cathedral Rock in Advancing Sunset
Cathedral Rock in Advancing Sunset As the sun set, the oranges and reds of Cathedral Rock changed.
Acadia
A Summer New Media Internship
Stockton New Media student Mike Kappeler provides an excellent description of his summer internship experience at NBC Universal's Media Village in Los Angeles, where Mike gained va
1001 Nights Cast
Every night for 1001 nights, Barbara Campbell is performing a short text-based work via web video. Her project 1001 Nights Cast is structured around the frame of tale of Scheheraza
Invisible Cities Hotel
The designers of the 8-room Tressants Hotel in Menorca, Spain, designed each room to be representative of one of the conceptual cities described by Italo Calvino in Invisible Citie
Norway: Gudvagnen from Above
Gudvagnen from Above The top of the mountain above Gudvangnen, on the way to Voss, at Stalheim hotel.
Teaching in Norway
Over the next week, I'm teaching one-third of a combined advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar in Digital Media Aesthetics at the University of Bergen, Norway. I'm there to p
Shandy Hall Residencies
Laurence Sterne (1713-68) wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy in Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, in the 18th Century. The innovative nonlinear novel is often cited by contemp
Whoops, We Lost Your Data
Well I suppose it could be worse. Hurricane Katrina keeps things in perspective, but my hosting company, Acenet, somehow managed to completely crash my site. Everything in the home
Happy Birthday Jill Walker
Happy birthday to Jill Walker, my favorite new media critic.
I Love Teaching Poetry
I've been thinking about my teaching: what works, what doesn't, and what falls inbetween. This semester in Literary Methodologies, we've been reading a lot of poetry and spending
Birthday Poem for Rob Wittig
50 that's about half, isn't it? that's well past the early bit but a long way from the end full stock of invisibles on view in few spare moments out window in duluth see attle par
Junior Faculty Thought #28,497
"A life without meetings would be meetingless."
Digital Humanities Quarterly: Call for Scholarly and Creative Work
Matt Kirschenbaum just sent out an exciting announcement about a new journal that will serve as a forum for scholarly and creative work in electronic media. Digital Humanities Qua
Courses and Syllabi
This hasn't been updated for a while . . . the courses I teach at the University of Bergen are on the studentportal, rather than public web pages. However, if anyone is interested
S+G7, Dickinson After Queneau
V Birmingham! the great city is over! Cinema has recovered the lots; Comments gone down together Into the boiling home. Ring, for the scant figures! Toll, for the
ARHU Rocks
I recently got word from Rob Gregg, the Dean of Arts and Humanities, that ARHU will support two projects I proposed earlier this term. For the first time this year, Stockton earmar
Google Self Haiku
a man with my name has been winning at poker in reno: google
Books That Changed My Life
A former student, Tracy Lisk, is doing a project for Tom Kinsella's "Readers, Writers, and Books" class and has asked each of the Lit faculty to tell her about three books that cha
35 Scooter, 20 C * 3
35 Scooter You oxen, whet, spark hole of magic, jived. Boo! Quiz: You see politician who care? Vex me: joke, quag, zip! Feed bag of lies to Our media; quick jab hope. Ax view of y
The Electronic Literature Collection -- Call for Works
The Electronic Literature Organization seeks submissions for the first Electronic Literature Collection. We invite the submission of literary works that take advantage of the capab
SLSA 2005
I'll be giving a talk this evening on Implementation in the contexts of Situationism, Fluxus, and sticker art campaigns this evening at the Society for Literature, Science, and th
First Person, Games, and the Place of Electronic Literature
After a hiatus for redesign, the electronic book review is back online. A review/essay I wrote in response to Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin's First Person: New Media as Story, Perfo
Back in Mac
My iBook died rather tragically of a logic board failure a week ago Sunday, while I was in the midst of grading papers and right before I was leaving for the SLSA. After recasting
Snowball/Avalanche
Snowball/Avalanche (White Phosphorus) O manufacturing we transcendent let illusionary burn phosphorus white hazardous damage chemical effects effects chemical damage hazardous whi
Winter Break Reading Update: Oulipo Compendium, Hayles, and Castronova
I've gotten some sweet packages in the mail from Amazon over the past couple of weeks. My longest-anticipated purchase finally arrived from England. For the past year, I've had the
Trib Article on Control and E-Lit
I was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic, Julia Keller, for an article published in the Trib this Sunday, "Plugged-in Proust: Has e-lit com
In Copenhagen for DAC 2005
I'm in Copenhagen at the 2005 Digital Arts and Culture Conference. The Americans, having been up since 2AM ET, are looking a bit bleary-eyed. The team (mostly Nick) is blogging the
DAC 2005 ELINOR reading
I really enjoyed the ELINOR reading Friday night at the Copenhagen LiteraturHaus. I get so used to seeing the same crowd of folks presenting work in electronic literature, that it'
DAC 2005: Notes on Mateas and Montfort's "A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics"
They approach the podium. The screen goes dark, then blue. There is some struggling with cords and configurations. Fingers and bodies struggle with the oppressive apparatus, and co
Coover Interview on KCRW
There is a superb interview of Robert Coover available in RealAudio from KCRW’s Bookworm program. The first part of a two part interview was broadcast December 8th, and the other h
Where to Get Your Ph.D. for New Media, Electronic Literature, etc.
Matt Kirschenbaum offers an answer to this question, which I'm hearing more often lately as well.
Bush is still a lying, warmongering, pig idiot
I watched George Bush's speech tonight. He was speaking to me directly, as one of the people who were opposed to his war on I Rock. He acknowledged that mistakes were made, althoug
Going Down Under
After turning in my grades, the reality has finally sunk in. A week from now, I'll be in Western Australia with my love and her family, and it will be summer. I've never gone this
Rowboat Near Penguin Island
Rowboat Near Penguin Island 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 fli
"The Me Everybody Knows"
Stuart Moulthrop, Jill Walker, and I were quoted in an article by Stephanie Shapiro, "The Me Everybody Know" in the Modern Life section of last Sunday's Baltimore Sun (archive). Th
MITH Speaker Series
This fall the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, soon to be the new home of the Electronic Literature Organization, has lined up a great series of lectures focuse
State of the Union: the violent are trying to take the earth
Just for kicks, I attempted to summarize/narrate the 2006 State of the Union Address over iChat with Nick Monfort while I watched it on television, as he was writing some kind of i
Wherefore Genre?
These are my notes for the talk I gave yesterday at MITH on genre in electronic literature in the context of the forthcoming Electronic Literature Collection that I'm editing along
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
My Meeting with the Norwegian Ambassador Went Well
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
Brown E-Fest 2006
I'm looking forward to this week's Brown E-Fest 2006, where I'll be participating on a panel on "The Game of Fiction" along with Nick Montfort, George Landow, Lutz Hammel, and Stu
Fluxus Projects
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 even
New From Norway
Last week I was in Norway, where I had the pleasure of speaking at the University of Bergen to Jill Walker and Elin Sjursen's students in the Web Design and Aesthetics course. Tala
Brown E-Fest 2006
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
Texts for Objects in the Writers' House Kitchen (Draft)
Nick and I did some serious work on a draft of a forthcoming concrete writing project late last night. Song for a Spoon o i ddnt mn go Requiem for a Fork o o o twist o
Meet the New Blog, Same as the Old Blog
This weekend, I updated to Wordpress 2.0, switched to a modified version of the Blue Horizons them, and installed the widgets plugin, which makes it easier (in some ways) to modify
Students Podcasts on the Digital Life
This semester, students in my New Media Studies course produced podcasts. Their assignment was to create a story on some aspect of their interaction with new media and contemporary
Ph.D. Fellowship at the University of Bergen
Jill Walker reports that there is a Ph.D. fellowship opportunity at the University of Bergen's Department of Humanistic Informatics. The Faculty of Arts has seven fellowships avail
Poetic and Strange
It must be national poetry month. In addition to Nick Montfort's foray into deforestation this morning my email included note of two other strange poetic projects. William Gillespi
Home Run
Home Run This weekend I made it home to Chicago for a quick visit, and got to watch the Cubs at Wrigley for their second home game. The wind chill was about 20F, but you still c
Guest Speaker Torill Mortensen: From MUDs to WoW
Torill Mortensen, an expert on MUDS, MOOs, and online roleplaying games, will be visiting tomorrow to give lectures in my New Media Studies class (WQ224 -- 9:55-11:10) and in my Ar
Moonbright
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.
Ring
The 100th Anniversary of Henrik Ibsen's Death
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 ce
Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
I was doing some editorial work today on the forthcoming Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, which I'm editing along with Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort and Stephanie Str
Youth Concert at the Bergen Aquarium
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 prepar
framed
The frAme: Online Journal of Culture & Technology which published new media writing, art, interviews and essays from 1995-2004, has stopped actively publishing new work, but it's g
DAC 2007: Perth
The call for papers for perthDAC 2007 is out. The theme of the 2007 Digital Arts and Culture Conference will be "The Future of Digital Media Culture" which, I presume, leaves plent
The History of Pizza
Here's a great slice on the history of pizza, including some amusing bits on the spread of pizza during the the 1950s in the USA. One issue: although the article attributes to Chic
Place and Space in New Media Writing
I guest-edited a just-released issue of the Iowa Review Web focused on the ways that different forms of new media writing reconfigure concepts of place and space. Another way of lo
I'm Telling You I Was Framed: Interview with Simon Mills
I was recently interviewed by Simon Mills for framed, his retrospective project of interviews contextualizing digital art and writing between 1998-2004. The interview took shape in
George Bush Singing "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
My favorite recent web video detourning:
Leonardo Electronic Almanac Special Issue on Digital Poetry
LEA just released an extensive new issue on Digital Poetry. While I've just taken a quick look, it appears to be a terrific collection of essays on contemporary digital poetry, in
Vienna Café in a Wall Mirror Above
Vienna Café in a Wall Mirror Above
CFP for Two Upcoming Electronic Literature Conferences in Europe
Via GTxA, calls for papers and works for two upcoming electronic literature centered conferences in Europe: E-Poetry 2007 will be held from May 20-23 in Paris at the Université Par
Dead Man with Cell Phone, Broken Heart
Dead Man with Cell Phone, Broken Heart We ran across this grave in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. I have no idea who is buried there, or of the circumstances of his life or dea
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One The Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, which I edited along with Nick Montfort, Katherine Hayles, and Stephanie Stricklan
Autostart -- Thursday and Friday at Kelly Writers House
I'll be there in spirit and via videoconference Friday. If you're in the area, you should definitely attend. : AUTOSTART - A Festival of Digital Literature : . Kelly Writer
Electronic Literature (a poem for autostart)
you procreate outsit nick you raffle you boycott you irrigate explore I befound you layer control accelerate chuck mindmeld you photocopy you green thought you green shade you cra
Ulcharmin
Ulcharmin For my birthday, Aurora made a drawing of "Ulcharmin," my WoW avatar (level 57 Orc Hunter). An appropriate gift, since I'm currently working on my essay "The Corporat
Academics Firing Guns
From November 3rd to 4th, a group of brave academics gathered in Bergen, Norway for the Worlds of Warcraft seminar, a project that will result in a critical anthology of writing
Right On, America!
I just wanted to allow myself an exclamation mark to celebrate the first USA national election in a long time that I'm pleased with. I didn't vote in this one, since I'm no longer
Computer Beats Chess-man (again)
According to the New York Times, "A six-game chess match between Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the world champion, and Deep Fritz, a souped-up version of commercially available chess
3by3by3 Poetry
Acts of Hypertension Betty Ford blinked, lucky her, tears role. Voting soon began with cardiovascular anticipation. Counting stoic countdown, marriage, became old. Moderate physi
Red Snapper Veracruz
Last night I made Red Snapper Veracruz, and it was darn tasty. It probably wasn't the best fish to eat from a sustainable cuisine point of view, given that I live in Norway and the
Rare Weather Events in Bergen
Today will be the 75th consecutive day that it has rained in Bergen. This breaks the record even here, in the rainiest city in Europe. In the above short video I have documented
My New Job Is Great, Though I Have to Wear a Uniform
Red Beans and Rice
The other night I made Red Beans and Rice from an authentic New Orleans recipe. Tasty and time-consuming. I find myself willing to try out more time-consuming recipes when multip
Nygårdsparken med snø
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Curating Ambiguity
I did a short interview with Franz Thalmair about the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One, that has just been published by the Austrian webzine CONT3XT.NET. It will also b
February is Create-a-Thing-a-Day Month
Eyebeam passes along word of The Creative Act, a collaborative project which has declared February "Create-a-Thing-a-Day Month. Participants in the project will make something crea
Thing 1: Mountain Collage for Dirk Stratton
Theme: Creative Commons Mail Art Larger Version, PDF This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution License Photos "mountai
Thing 2: Long Beach for William Gillespie
Theme: Creative Commons Mail Art Larger Version This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Creative Commons Photos Attribution "IMG_8118" by tookie
Go Bears
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Thing 3: TieCheese for Rob Wittig
Theme: Creative Commons Mail Art Larger Version This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Creative Commons Photo Attributions "Tied to the Past" by
Thing 4: Skyline for Frank Marquardt
Theme: Creative Commons Mail Art Larger Version This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Creative Commons Photo Attributions "Civita di Bagnoregio
Thing 5: Elipsseas for Nick Montfort
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Thing 6: Ring of Fire, Ring of Fur, Ring of Fir for Eric Rettberg
Theme: Creative Commons Mail Art Larger Version This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Creative Commons Photo Attributions "Fur" by Max Lewis ht
Thing 7: Forest (for the Trees) for Jill Walker
Theme: Creative Commons Mail Art Larger Version This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Creative Commons Photo Attributions "dicke marie" by extr
Thing 8: My Dead
This week I'm starting a new theme for my create-a-thing-a-day project: Poems from Bed. I'm going to try to come up with the first line of a poem before I get out of bed in the mor
Thing 9: Winter in the North
Winter in the North She makes an ice stew for breakfast and serves it in a porcelain bowl while wicked winter wind whips through windowpanes loosely glazed. The further north yo
Thing 10: After Dream Dialog
After Dream Dialog -I dreamed I was in prison what prison? -it was like a prison on TV american? -probably what were the charges? -I'm not sure like on what show? -I don't know do
Thing 11: The Boy in the Bubble
The Boy in the Bubble the boy in the bubble wears lavender suede shoes, a blue serge suit, and a ruffled white shirt, pirate-style. you can watch him on his webcam, pay per view.
Thing 12: Birds Have Names
Birds Have Names Another helicopter is falling from the sky, delicate things, these whirling birds of prey. These Black Hawks and Sea Knights have colorful names: EZ 40, Tarantula
Thing 13: On the Moon
On the Moon Our residence on the moon is completely sustainable. If you look closely you can see the glint of our reflective solar panels just to the side of Copernicus, if you sq
Thing 14: Valentine
Valentine Valentine suffered from an unfortunate archery accident when she was 15 years old that severed the external pterygoideus muscle on her left cheek and left her with a sli
Thing 15: Walking in Bergen: A View from the Bridge
Theme: Cell Phone Video While Walking in Bergen
Thing 16: Walking in Bergen: From the Front Door to the Bus-stop
It's a busy week with a lot of deadlines, so I'm exploring the possibilities of capturing banality via cellphone video rather than writing or doing anything else very head o
Thing 17: Walking in Bergen: Through Nygårdsparken in the Rain
I walk through the park most days on my way to the university. In the park I see water, trees, joggers, geese, ducks, sculptures, and junkies. Sorry about my finger.
Thing 18: Walking in Bergen: From the Gym to the University (Sideways)
I thought I'd see what happened if I held the phone vertically -- well, it comes out sideways. I kind of like it.
Thing 19: Walking in Bergen: From the City to Johannes Kirke
Walking up to Johannes Kirke as the bells sound at noon.
Thing 20: Walking in Bergen: From My Office to Norwegian Class
Gingered Shrimp with Chili Noodles
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Thing 21: Walking in Bergen: From the Ending to the Vinmonopoli
Thing 22: Love and Capital
Switching gears again for the last week of the thing-a-day project. This week I'll be writing very short stories in swift careless drafts. Without further ado: Love and Capital "
Thing 23: His Long Pause
His Long Pause Because the world is round, it rotates and days accrue. Because days accrue, he begins to feel the weight. He feels the weight because more and more days accrue and
Thing 24: Sinkhole
Sinkhole "We discussed all of the scenarios involved in buying the old house and having the baby at the same time before we made the move. We made sure there was no lead paint or
Thing 25: Plenty
Plenty This is a book by an author I met once. This is a book by an author with wounded hands who cried too much when you beat him at poker. This is a book by a dead man. This is
Thing 26: Bully
Bully The kid comes home from school roughed up again, hating the world, hating you for having him, hating the horrible age with all its rough edges and cruel children. There's li
Thing 27: How It Happens
How It Happens The fire was momentarily traumatic. All of my belongings up in smoke. All the goldfish boiled alive. All of my photographs and sketchbooks, the letter from the old
Thing 28: The Ending
The ending comes as no surprise. The ending comes a day late and a dollar short. You wish you could change the ending but it's always too late. The ending justifies the meaning, or
Electronic Literature Poster
On Monday, we're going to be at a department seminar in Solstrand. In the fall, Humanistic Informatics is becoming part of a larger department, with the easy-to-remember acronym of
Conferences and Presentations 2007
I've got a busy conference calender this year. If the funding all comes through, this is what my agenda for the year looks like. I'm hoping to get several papers finished in the co
Lys over Ulriken, Kunstmusee
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Review of the Electronic Literature Collection in Svenska Dagbladet
There's a great review (online, pdf) by of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One, by Jesper Olsen in today's edition of Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden's biggest newsp
Career in a Box
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A Few New Features, and a Lot of Words
The past six weeks have been a busy time. In addition to the 28 things I created during thing-a-day month, I managed to get my application at UiB filed and to complete the drafts o
Edward Picot's Review of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
Edward Picot recently posted a lengthy review of The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One. Picot clearly spent a good deal of time with the collection, and has both positiv
Internet Advertising Resolution
If you advertise on the internet and make use of an ad that moves from its original position to cover up what I am reading and demand my attention, I will not buy your product EVER
Can You Balance An Egg on its End on the Vernal Equinox?
Apparently, yes, but you can also do so on any other day of the year, given the right egg. It has more to do with the number and arrangement of bumps on the egg than the time of ye
Moonlight
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Sognefjord -- view from Urnes Stavkirke
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International Prize for Digital Literature
Submissions are open for the 3rd Ciutat de Vinaros International Prize of Digital Literature. There are three prizes in Digital Narrative (2500 Euros), Digital Poetry (2500 Euros)
Review of the Electronic Literature Collection in El Pais
A short review (online, pdf) of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One, by Stefano Caldana was published in today's edition of El Pais, Spain's largest newspaper.
Review of the Electronic Literature Collection in Realtime Arts
An excellent review of the Electronic Literature Collection, "word magic: the how of reading" by Tim Wright has been published by the Australian Arts bimonthly Realtime. Wright ex
ELO's Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
The Electronic Literature Organization's Future of Electronic Literature Symposium last week at MITH at the University of Maryland, College Park, was a great event, bringing togeth
(Process-Intensive) Literature
These are the slides from my 6-minute talk at the ELO Future of Electronic Literature Symposium, not the talk itself, but a rough outline of it. Maybe after I finish the overdue a
Appropriation in Electronic Literature: MIT5 Talk
Here are the slides from my presentation at the MIT5 Conference. I was presenting on appropriation in electronic literature. The text of my talk (more notes than finished paper,
ELC UK Launch Report
The Electronic Literature Collection UK Launch event I attended Thursday night in Leicester, England went very well. About 40 people turned up for the salon, including many of the
Jeorg Piringer Performance at EPoetry 2007
Po-Ex -- Portuguese EPoetry
After a late night of epoetry readings in a smokefilled theater in Montmartre (more on that later) and the excess you'd expect, after getting lost in St. Denis (I think I wandered
Two New Publications from the ELO
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is pleased to announce two new additions to its series of publications. N. Katherine Hayles's primer, "Electronic Literature: What Is I
Remarks from the UK Electronic Literature Collection Launch, et plus, deux reviews
At the request of Kate Pullinger, I have posted my remarks from last week's UK launch of the Electronic Literature Collection. Et plus, there are two new reviews of the ELC. From
Not I
From the Samuel Beckett exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris.
Escalator de Pompidou
E-poetry 2007 Paris Cellfone Video Documentary Extravaganza
First of all, let me point in brief to networked_performance for Simon Biggs' very good report on the E-poetry 2007 Festival in Paris. I agreed with him that Robert Simanowski's cl
Electronic Literature in the Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a multimedia piece on electronic literature including an article (archive), a video piece, and a podcast interview with N. Katherine Hay
The Kiss
Jill and I got married on Saturday. It was a wonderful ceremony and a great party afterwards. We couldn't be happier. Thanks to everyone who was a part of it, and thanks to Charle
TAGallery
I recently made a contribution to TAGallery, a project of cont3xt.net. The project is an experiment in using del.icio.us to collaboratively tag interesting sites related to new med
Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference
The ELO has just announced a call for papers and works for a major electronic literature conference next May in Washington state. I have posted the announcement below. The conferen
Rap Canterbury Tales
Stuart Moulthrop, Guest Researcher
(click for pdf) We're very pleased to be welcoming hypertext pioneer and new media innovator Stuart Moulthrop to UiB as a guest researcher for the next two weeks. If you're in Ber
Getting Translated . . . into Bulgarian
The internet works in mysterious and sometimes wonderful ways. Yesterday I got an email from Reneta Bozhankova of the faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University Bulgaria on beha
Dancing Kangaroo
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New Aesthetic Technologies Conference at UiB, October 17th
Below is a flier (PDF) for the New Aesthetic Technologies Conference, which will be held at the University of Bergen all day on Wednesday, October 17th, featuring guest speakers Be
Guest Lecture Monday: Samuel Weber on Walter Benjamin
Below is a flier (PDF) for Samuel Weber's upcoming guest lecture on Monday, October 22nd from 14:15-16:00. The LLE Digital Culture Research group is cosponsoring Weber's lecture al
Letters that Matter: Review of the Electronic Literature Collection in ebr
John Zuern offers a detailed and insightful review of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 in ebr. Among other aspects of the Collection the review addresses is whether o
My Sloppy Handwriting as a Logo for Vagant
Hey this is the coolest thing that happened to me today. I've got a short piece on the recent Audiatur poetry festival coming out in the next issue of the Scandinavian literary mag
Frequency: The (frequency)
THE (frequency) the word will not be said He thought and rethought the specifics of the proposal with such frequency that he began to fear it would become an unhealthy obsessi
Four Brief Observations on the Audiatur Festival
Below is a short piece I wrote on the Audiatur Festival which will be published (in Norwegian) in the next issue of the Scandinavian literary magazine Vagant. 1) The all-grown-up
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OF (Charlie) of you I can say so little Charlie took little interest in the minutiae of the reception, whatever she wanted was good with him. He just wanted to check the guest
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AND (lists) and it is you who are many In his studio, Roger assembles lists of his dreams: free-fall from the skyscraper in Malaysia, horse-farm idyll, circus clown rapture, r
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A (nights) a point should be made She wondered how many more nights would end this way. a just people would make another world Dave spends a lot of nights alone, trying to re
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TO (judges) to see her again At the end of that weekend in Chicago, both Charlie and Helen knew that it would have to end. "I can barely look her in the eyes anymore," he expla
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IN (Pacific) in time will we learn The salt of the Pacific on her skin the smell of cypress filling her nostrils and the ache of the hike in her thighs made Maggie feel right,
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IS (dirty) is it you Dave sent Jenny a dozen white roses and a note filled with a hundred dirty notions. is it long before the end Howard strained to be polite as the local
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YOU (deliberately) you make me think Howard's job took him many places he would otherwise deliberately avoid, such as the public transit systems of densely populated cities. Ev
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THAT (relation) that animal like us She had the strangest dreams in relation to children, and thought that perhaps they might try again later. that long day will come Some
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IT (determination) it was then that she went to him Maggie thought often of her mother, an immigrant and survivor, who had lived with such strength and determination, but had
ELO Meetup and E-Lit Conference Guide for the 2007 MLA Conference
ELO Meetup at the MLA As we have for the past several years, we are planning an informal meet-up for people affiliated with or interested in the Electronic Literature Organization
Frequency: He (Anna)
HE (Anna) he will read the letter Anna had certain desires, and they were not all easily described. There was something that she wanted to recapture, even if she wasn't sure th
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WAS (automatically) was a time before will be one after Though he was automatically sardonic, Roger never gave up on his capacity for wonder. He was not religious or even spiri
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FOR (qualified) for you I would write a page Dave felt fully qualified to spin even the most embarrassing of personal failings into a two or three point bump in the polls. If
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ON (medicine) on that little can be said Anna took the pills the doctor prescribed, while Charlie's medicine was mostly scotch and a few other bad habits he had nearly left beh
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ARE (violent) are you many in number When Howard has nightmares, they frequently feature violent, unstoppable invasions, swarms of creatures both alien and familiar. are we yo
Frequency: Sort of a Project (Description) in Progress
A friend recently emailed to ask me what the hell I'm doing on my blog. A first tentative stab at explaining my plans for Frequency: It started out as a poem using a list of 200 o
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AS (applies) as if you could tell me Howard applies a certain skepticism to what he is told about the operation in Iran, as the information comes from someone who takes speci
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WITH (dominated) with so little to show It's not as if Johnnie never had any ambitions. He did go to college for a while, and got some formal musical training. He'd had some go
Frequency: His (psychological)
HIS (psychological) his part in this is small Howard always enjoys poker night with the boys from risk assessment. He rarely wins, but the psychological thrill of taking down a
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THEY (distributed) they made us part Anna could blame herself, and sometimes she does, though the accident was of course objectively not her fault. The blame could be distribu
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December 2007 DECEMBER 19 Scott updated his status. is looking forward. Scott updated his status. went to a Norwegian literary critics' debate and didn't get all the jokes. Finns t
Frequency: I (unemployed)
I (unemployed) I can only try It could have been anything or anyone. An unemployed man, a homeless person. It could have been a toy floating in the water, beckoning. Her back w
Frequeny: At (giant)
AT (giant) at the time he was a boy When he was a boy, Johnnie saw a film in which a group of adventurers were shrunk to a microscopic size in order to pilot a spaceship-like v
Frequency: Be (ships)
BE (ships) be still Dave's mother used to wake him and his sister with "Good morning Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea." She'd bellow it up the stairs, and he was
Frequency: This (roles)
THIS (roles) this work is not my own Johnnie finds the smell of wildfires strangely calming. People in California don't freak like you might expect them to. They've got their r
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HAVE (inevitable) have you any need to ask why Johnnie and Charlie are in some ways as close as two brothers can be, bound by their mutual loss and their lack of any other imme
Frequeny: From (tied)
FROM (tied) from one little day to a long year Maggie contemplated religion, but her desire for consolation tied with her powers of reason, and so she remained agnostic after a
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OR (wan) or you could turn a page Wan with jet lag, Dave pleaded with Jenny to forgive him for whatever slight had been at the root of the breakup this time around. He presente
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ONE (gathered) one can be kind After the closing, Kent gathered together friends old and new (actually, he reflected as he looked around the pool, mostly new) for a pool party
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HAD (swimming) had we world and time Anna always used to think of swimming as an escape. When she was thirteen she won a medal for her breast stroke. But now the sea reminds he
Frequency: By (latin)
BY (latin) by and large it was a good day Charlie and Anna attend a Latin mass at Notre Dame. They both light candles and hold hands in front of the votive offering. It's a kin
Frequency: Word (holds)
This is just a placeholder. I wrote this set of ten but then left them in Bergen on a flash drive. I'll update the post after I return to Norway in February. WORD (holds) word c
Frequency: But (honor)
BUT (honor) but you would not say the word Charlie discovered how difficult it is to honor both your wife and your mistress. It involves a lot of subterfuge, secret meetings, a
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NOT (manufactures) not what we need now Charlie is well aware that he manufactures reasons to move further and further away from Anna, to fail at what may be the most important
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WHAT (sensible) what do you have for me How Dave talked Jenny into an Italian vacation with four nights in Venice and some "eco-tourism" in Tuscany with plenty of good food and
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ALL (berlin) all we have is time Maggie wonders what it had been like for the East Germans who somehow made their way over the Berlin Wall, not knowing if they would get shot
Frequency: Were (restrictions)
WERE (restrictions) were you there when they came A colleague in the French Ministry of Defense tells Howard that the rapid changes in airport security restrictions remind him
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WE (tended) we know who you are Like everyone who worked in his department, Howard tended toward paranoia as the best defense, particularly when traveling abroad. While he woul
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WHEN (rear) when did you know Somewhere back in the rear part of her consciousness, Anna has always known things between her and Charlie would end poorly. Her friends had warne
Frequency: Your (tested)
YOUR (tested) your sentence is so long While most affairs are based on novelty, on the pull of the new and the danger of the illicit, Charlie and Helen's adultery tested limits
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CAN (sending) can you tell me why Maggie never had children, but in this dream, she is standing on a white sand dune, and her daughter is running in the sand, running away from
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SAID (tasteful) said no way Maggie discussed her plans for a green burial with her father. This might have been a bad idea. He insisted that she would outlive him, to begin wit
Fibreculture Futures of Digital Media Arts and Culture Issue
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Major League Lifestyle Improvement
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Jessica Ann Rettberg
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Jessica's first new media artwork
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Call for Papers and Works: Seminar on Electronic Literature in Europe: UiB September 11-13th
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September 2008 SEPTEMBER 22 Scott wrote on Drew Alberts's timeline. I'm doing well, Drew, participating in the baby boom with my baby girl and teaching and generally enjoying life
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David Wallace
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Donna Leishman at UiB Nov. 5th
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The Unknown Reading at Columbia College, Sept 25, 2008
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Communitizing Electronic Literature
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GTA redux and Netpoetic.com
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Drunken Boat #10 and "Electronic Literature in Performance"
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Creative Works
[caption id="attachment_1052" align="alignleft" width="400"] Hearts and Minds (2014-2016)[/caption]Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project (2014-2016). With Roderick Coover, A
Two turntables and a microphone and a mac and a website
Just a quick post here to say I think Beck gets the Web in ways that a lot of contemporary recording artists don't. While a lot of bands give you discographies and tour dates and b
Scott's Salmon and Corn-off-the-Cob Hash
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Cybraphon
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FD, an amuse bouche for the Web
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August 2009 AUGUST 31 Scott updated his status. the full 7 partner, 6 country, 95-page HERA grant proposal goes in today, as soon as I make a few tweaks to satisfy the Dutch resea
Nordic Digital Culture Network Launched
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September 2009 SEPTEMBER 28 Scott updated his status. Noticed that we have reached the point in the year when it is dark when Jessie goes to bed at 7:30 and still dark when she ge
Two interesting locative gaming experiences
I'm at a seminar in Oslo focused on mixed reality narrative. A couple of interesting projects: Julianne Pierce from the UK artist group Blast Theory presented Ulrike and Eamon Comp
The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice
I'm organizing a small conference, The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice in Bergen, which will take place from November 8-10 at UiB and
Implementation Photo Book Project Call for Participation
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Implementation Berlin
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PhD Stipend Opportunity at the University of Bergen, Digital Culture
The University of Bergen department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies will have two PhD stipends available in 2010. The stipends are awarded competitively to two of the
Ulriken from our porch
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