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Reading Group and Lectures on Medieval Administration (27.08.2021)
We would like to invite you to join a new, cross disciplinary research group, Law and Culture in the Pre-Modern North, formed at LLE by the project “Transformations of Medieval Law”, run by Helen Leslie-Jacobsen, Patrick Farrugia, and Julián Valle.
High-level summit at the University of Bergen: Global counter-terrorism after 22 July (20.08.2021)
What can society and global organizations do better to stop right-wing extremist radicalization and terrorist content online?
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Art, Academics, and Beyond at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic (21.05.2021)
ELO 2021 launches next week with a variety of virtual talks, workshops, and arts performances from May 24th - May 28th, as well as several permanent online exhibitions.
A composite image of Jason Nelson's games.
Jason Nelson Appointed Associate Professor at UiB Digital Culture (10.04.2021)
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Nelson as Associate Professor with UiB Digital Culture.
Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen
Selected for the Young CAS Fellow programme (10.03.2021)
Medieval philologist Helen Leslie-Jacobsen is one of four young, outstanding researchers in Norway who will participate in the Young CAS Fellow programme. She will do research on medieval ballads from the Faroe Islands.
A photograph of Astrid Ensslin.
Astrid Ensslin Appointed Associate Professor at UiB Digital Culture (08.03.2021)
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Astrid Ensslin as Associate Professor with UiB Digital Culture.
"Posthuman" exhibition poster.
2021 ELO Conference and Festival - Posthuman Exhibition (02.03.2021)
The first of several exhibitions in the 2021 Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival debuts this Thursday, March 4th.
Alterskapet fra Austevoll, ca. 1520, med St. Sunniva i midten
Northern European Reformations (03.11.2020)
Northern European Reformations. Transnational Perspectives. Edited by James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, Salvador Ryan.
Jill Walker Rettberg
New method developed to analyse social media (26.06.2020)
Do you know where the personal data you leave behind in apps and on social media is used? A new method for analyzing data developed by Professor Jill Walker Rettberg helps identify precisely that.
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The complex system of facial expressions in sign language (26.06.2020)
In the near future deaf people and hearing people may be able to communicate in real time, using automatic translation systems based on computer vision technologies. Now researchers are carefully studying facial expressions used in sign language to express both grammatical information and emotions.
Åslaug Ommundsen has researched Medieval manuscript culture in Norway.
Manuscripts that link Europe together (21.10.2019)
“I never tire of studying medieval manuscripts. Even though my source material is Norwegian, it is also fundamentally international. This gives the research a broader perspective and forces international cooperation”, Professor Åslaug Ommundsen says.
The Old Norwegian Homily Book
Well-Attended Seminar on Tools and Methods in Digital Philology (16.09.2019)
The two-day seminar Digital Approaches to Transcribing and Analysing Medieval Texts, which took place in Bergen on the 29th-30th August 2019, brought together academics from seven European universities to exchange knowledge about current research in the field of Digital Philology.
Jill introducing Machine Vision to the group
Presented the Machine Vision database for the first time (28.08.2019)
Jill, Ragnhild and Linn Heidi introduced the database for the first time at Nordmedia in Malmø.
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Nick Montfort, MIT Professor of Digital Media, Appointed Professor II at UiB Digital Culture (07.08.2019)
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media at MIT, to a two-year 20% position as Professor II with UiB Digital Culture. Montfort is noted both as a creative author of numerous and varied creative works and as a critic and theorist of digital media.
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Scott Rettberg won the Hayles award for "Electronic Literature" (06.08.2019)
The 2019 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature was awarded to UiB professor Scott Rettberg, for his monograph Electronic Literature.
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ELO 2019 speakers from Bergen (06.07.2019)
Seven current and nine past members of the Bergen Electronic Literature research group are speaking at the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Cork, Ireland in July.
Workshop at Solstrand Hotell
Developing the database (11.06.2019)
The Machine Vision database was the topic of our last workshop at Solstrand Hotel and we are getting closer to a data set that will give us more detailed information on Machine Vision in everyday life.
Recap: Curatorial Media and the Conundrum of Credibility -- Fulbright Lecture by Chris Ingraham (03.06.2019)
Concluding his Fulbright year in the Digital Culture research group at UiB, Chris Ingraham gave a lecture on algorithmic culture based on a section of his forthcoming book.

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