We are bringing back the Digital Narrative Network in 2021. Even though the network no longer has dedicated funding and the pandemic has thrown in a few wrenches into the works, we are planning to revive DNN by sharing relevant activities, guest speakers and events. Jill and I are also leading an application for a Center of Research Excellence: https://www.uib.no/en/cdn that we hope might eventually see the light of day.
In the meantime, there are some exciting events coming up this month and next that we would like to invite you to attend:
Monday Feb 15th, 7PM: “How Pac-Man Eats”: https://www.uib.no/en/dnn/142532/how-pac-man-eats-guest-lecture-noah-wardrip-fruin In How Pac-Man Eats, UC Santa Cruz professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin considers two questions: What are the fundamental ways that games work? And how can games be about something? Wardrip-Fruin argues that the two issues are related. Bridging formalist and culturally engaged approaches, he shows how the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean. Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/68010994648?pwd=Ukx5OGR2K082UHNqY3RLV2JURkxnZz09
March 4-6th Posthuman Electronic Literature Exhibition We are in the process of putting together an online and physical exhibition of 15 digital artworks addressing the theme of posthumanism. Assuming we are able to let people back into university buildings, a physical version of this exhibition (co-organized by UiB, SLSA-EU, and the ELO) will manifest at KMD and the University Arts and Humanities Library. There will in any case be an online version of the exhibition. Details will follow as the situation evolves.
March 11th, 5PM: “Digital Fiction and the Unnatural Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis” Book Launch: https://www.uib.no/en/cdn/142534/digital-fiction-and-unnatural-transmedial-narrative-theory-method-and-analysis In “Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis” UiB Associate Professor of Digital Culture and co-author Alice Bell offer the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of unnatural narratology as a medium-specific and transmedial phenomenon. Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67240098288?pwd=d1UyN2ZJcXZJQWswR2hScnc2L05IUT09
March 15th, 7PM: “Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification.”: https://www.uib.no/en/rg/digitalculture/142639/experimental-games-guest-lecture-patrick-jagoda In his new book “Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification” University of Chicago Professor Patrick Jagoda imagines ways games can be experimental—not only in the sense of problem solving, but also the more nuanced notion of problem making that embraces the complexities of our digital present.
I hope that you will be able to join us for some of these events – and more are coming this spring, as we are co-organization the 2021 Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival “Platform (Post?) Pandemic” in May.
Please invite anyone who might be interested to stay informed about Digital Narrative Network events by signing up for our mailing list: https://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/dnn
And please also use the mailing list to share news of related events and activities.
All the Best,
Scott
Scott Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen
Electronic Literature is now available from Polity: http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509516773
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