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Listen to Off Center season 1 (14.09.2023)
The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) launched summer 2023 and its research projects have been set in motion. The podcast series ‘Off Center’ shares the research from CDN with an international audience.
Åslaug Ommundsen in the archive(s)
Book fragments from the Middle Ages reveal their secrets (22.08.2023)
In the Nordic countries, tens of thousands of pages from liturgical books from the Middle Ages have been preserved. An international network of researchers has formed around the materials.
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Center for Digital Narrative Releases Podcast Off Center (01.08.2023)
The bi-weekly podcast series ‘Off Center’, hosted by Scott Rettberg, Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, has launched. Read more about it and find out where you can listen to the podcast.
Ingrid Halland’s keynote lecture ‘Towards Deep Surfaces’ at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin (2022). Photo: Aedes Architekturforum
"Sustainability needs to look different" (16.05.2023)
Ingrid Halland is convinced that the materials of a more sustainable future cannot mimic the aesthetics belonging to the paradigms we must leave behind.
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CDN is hiring: open positions (02.03.2023)
Join the Center for Digital Narrative.
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The Center for Digital Narrative has been awarded the status of Centre of Excellence (03.10.2022)
The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) has been awarded the status of Center of Research Excellence. The center will investigate new forms of digital narrative in electronic literature, digital games, social media and AI-driven storytelling.
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Millions granted to humanities research (06.09.2022)
Professor Scott Rettberg and associate professor Ingrid Halland receive 12 million each from the Research Council of Norway for projects at the intersection between technology and aesthetics.
Webinar about Byen er Bergen (20.06.2022)
Watch the webinar here.
Lærer Katrin Saarik
The Norwegian Courses from a teacher's perspective (25.05.2022)
Which expectations and requirements do the teachers have for the students at the Norwegian Courses? What is the tuition like? 15 skilled teachers teach the Norwegian Courses, and here you'll get to know two of them, Pernille Myrvold and Katrin Saarik.
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Myth, Metaphor and Magic, OR: Whole Brain Games for a Left-Brain World (25.04.2022)
Professor II Dr. Doris Rusch (Uppsala Universitet) joins CDN to explore existential questions through the lenses of game design and neuroscience.
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Researching Arctic indigenous peoples’ portrayals of themselves (08.04.2022)
In the Visions of the Artic project, professor of anthropology Knut Mikjel Rio at the University Museum of Bergen will research Arctic indigenous peoples’ portrayals of their own history, compared to the nation states’ portrayal of the minority populations.
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Exploring how artificial intelligence affects our lives (21.03.2022)
Social scientist Gabriele de Seta is looking at how we interact with digital media in everyday life. Now he is awarded the Prize for Young Researchers for his outstanding work.
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New book on Pre-Web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature (21.03.2022)
CDN Principal Investigator, Dr. Astrid Ensslin, ventures a deep-dive into the early history of digital creative writing and publishing
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Prestigious grant for sign language researcher (16.03.2022)
Linguistics professor Vadim Kimmelman receives high-level funding from the EU. Now he will be able to build a research team and explore different properties in five different sign languages.
Screenshot from Giselle Beiguelman’s Coronário / Coronary, one of the works featured in the COVID E-Lit documentary
Digital Art During the Pandemic Debuts Online (15.03.2022)
The new documentary provides a unique lens on the collective experience of the pandemic and is now available for open access screening online.
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Reading Group Meeting - May 3rd (22.02.2022)
The research group's reading group will have its second meeting of the semester on May 3rd in HF 371, 10:00-11:30
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Roleplaying AI and Technology (29.11.2021)
Jon Andreas Edland developed "Ettersynsing" as a practical master thesis in Digital Culture. Last week he ran it for AI scientists and developers at NORA's annual conference.
St. Sunniva – irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen
St. Sunniva – Irish Queen and Norwegian Patron Saint (14.10.2021)
St. Sunniva has had an impact on Norwegian history, literature and art from the Middle Ages until today. A magnificent newly published book explores different aspects of the Sunniva character.

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