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Scott Rettberg is an American digital artist and scholar of electronic literature based in Bergen, Norway. He is the co-founder and served as the first Executive Director of the Electronic Literature Organization.[1][2][3]

In June 2016, at the annual Electronic Literature Organization conference at the University of Victoria, Rettberg's collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, won the 2016 Robert Coover Award for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre.[4][5]

Scholarship

Rettberg is a Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.[1] He is the author of the book Electronic Literature, which won the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019[6], and has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities.[7]

Rettberg was the project leader of the HERA-Funded ELMCIP research project (2010–13), and is the director of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.[2]

Literary and artistic career

Rettberg became known as an author of hypertext fiction in the 1990s. His first major project was the collaborative web novel The Unknown, A Hypertext Novel, which was written in collaboration with William Gillespie, Dirk Stratton, and Frank Marquadt, and won the trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998.[8] It was also featured in the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 2,[9] and has been analysed by a number of scholars.[10][11][12][13]

Rettberg's cinematic collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, received the Robert Coover Award in 2016.[14] The annual award is given by the Electronic Literature Organization each year in recognition of an outstanding work of electronic literature.[15]

Selected Bibliography

  • Electronic literature, (Basingbroke: Polity, 2018. ISBN 978-1509516773) [16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Scott Rettberg Biography". University of Bergen. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  2. ^ a b "History of the Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  3. ^ Keller, Julia (2001-05-18). "E-voking muses". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  4. ^ "Hearts and Minds Awarded Top Electronic Literature Prize". cada.uic.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  5. ^ "Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds". www.uib.no. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  6. ^ "Announcing the 2019 ELO Prizes – Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  7. ^ Rettberg, Scott; Tomaszek, Patricia; Baldwin, Sandy (2015-01-01). Electronic literature communities. ISBN 9781940425993. OCLC 917358825.
  8. ^ "trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998 Results". unknownhypertext.com. 1998. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  9. ^ Rettberg, Scott; Gillespie, William; Stratton, Dirk; Marquadt, Frank (2011) [1998]. Borràs, Laura; Memmott, Talan; Raley, Rita; Stefans, Brian (eds.). "The Unknown". collection.eliterature.org. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  10. ^ Kolb, David A. (2012). "Story/Story". Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. HT '12. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 99–102. doi:10.1145/2309996.2310013. ISBN 9781450313353.
  11. ^ Pisarski, Mariusz (2016). "Collaboration in e-literature". World Literature Studies. 8 (3): 78–89. ISSN 1337-9275.
  12. ^ Ciccoricco, David (2007-11-25). Reading Network Fiction. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817315894. the unknown hypertext gillespie.
  13. ^ Desrochers, Nadine; Tomaszek, Patricia (2014). "Bridging The Unknown : An Interdisciplinary Case Study of Paratext in Electronic Literature". hdl:1866/12174. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ Rettberg, Jill Walker. "Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds". University of Bergen. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  15. ^ "ELO Prize: Annual Prizes from the ELO". dtc-wsuv.org. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  16. ^ https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Electronic+Literature-p-9781509516773. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)