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 top candidates who apply. Candidates must have completed an MA degree, have an excellent educational and research record, and have a well-developed project description. Digital Culture is [...]

Nick Montfort and I are working with a designer to develop a coffee-table photo book version of Implementation, the sticker novel we published in 2004-2005. Originally, most of the photos submitted were of a resolution only suitable for the Web. We are currently looking for readers to help re-implement Implementation and to send in higher [...]

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 at Landmark Café. The gathering is focused on the increasing use of the network as a space and medium for collaborative interdisciplinary art practices including electronic [...]

Kathleen Fitzpatrick recently emailed me wondering if there were any MFA programs where creative writers could do a graduate degree focused on electronic literature. I could only think of Brown off the top of my head, where they accept one digital writer a year, then it occurred to me that Ed Falco is teaching at [...]

I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Nordic Digital Culture Network, a Nordplus Higher Education network which we have been working to develop for the past year. Linking together digital culture programs from the Nordic and Baltic region, the Digital Culture Network facilitates curriculum development, student and faculty exchanges, and innovative teaching ideas [...]

The new edition of Binary Katwalk features the interactive narrative work of Kate Pullinger and works by Caitlin Fisher, Reneé Turner and Christine Wilks.
Binary Katwalk is an online exhibition space for experimental digital work, edited by Jeremy Hight. Each edition will feature artists from around the world and from different points in the spectrum of [...]

Over at Expressive Intelligence Studio, Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s post “Johanna Drucker is Pulling My Leg” is attracting a lot of interesting commentary. The post is response to Johanna Drucker’s review of Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. In the last paragraph of her review, Drucker writes:
Paying close attention to the incunabular work of [...]

Chris Klimas, the hypertext and IF author, recently released Twine, a free open source tool for creating interactive narratives. Twine includes a graphical editor, and includes similar features to the first generation hypertext system Storyspace. Klimas includes documentation, including video instructions, such as this one, showing you how to create a simple hypertext fiction using [...]

The mammoth 10th anniversary issue of the online journal Drunken Boat is now out. I have a piece “Electronic Literature (in Performance)” in the DB Electronic Arts and Literature folio about the work presented at last year’s Electronic Literature in Europe conference, describing many of the works and including video documentation of many of the [...]