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Photo of professor Koenraad De Smedt
Research across borders (30.08.2016)
Language resources are becoming more accessible for researchers throughout Europe.
Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds (17.06.2016)
Scott Rettberg and collaborators' VR narrative Hearts and Minds is the 2016 winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature.
Screenshot from Fish Net Stockings.
A Festival of Electronic Literature: Open Events at ELO 2015 (19.07.2015)
Exhibitions and performances of electronic literature are open to the public as part of the 2015 international electronic literature conference and festival, ELO 2015.
Kathi Inman Berens står foran et lerret og foreleser.
International lecturers at Digital Culture (11.06.2015)
After a year with Digital Culture at UiB, Fulbright Scholar Kathi Inman Berens has returned to her home town of Portland.
Gruppe fra Cambridge på ekskursjon til Lysekloster
The 9th Bergen-Cambridge Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies (12.05.2015)
From a showing of Hearts and Minds in the CAVE2 VR environment at the Electronic Visualisation Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Interrogating Torture (05.02.2015)
Professor Scott Rettberg presents hybrid virtual reality project about battlefield torture at Human Rights Human Wrong Festival Documentary Film Festival in Oslo.
A man wearing an Oculus Rift visor and headphones experiences a work of electronic literature at ELO2014.
335 scholars and artists submitted proposals for ELO2015 (19.01.2015)
Bergen is the 2015 host of the international Electronic Literature Organization conference, and has received a record number of submissions from scholars and artists around the world.
Peterhof
The palaces of Saint-Petersburg’s suburbs (28.03.2014)
Ekaterina Skvortcova will give an outline of the three main ensembles in the suburbs of Saint-Petersburg – Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk.
Beautiful books from the Middle Ages (18.11.2013)
Manuscripts from the Middle Ages are beautiful objects, written by hand on parchment made ​​of leather. A video from the University of Bergen series "Close-Up".
The four-leaf clover complete (15.11.2013)
Earlier this autumn two new researchers were put to work on book fragments: Astrid Marner (Post-doc) and Synnøve Myking (PhD). Together with project leader Åslaug Ommundsen and the English paleographer Michael Gullick they will contribute to the knowledge about medieval book culture.
Nye masterstudenter på digital kultur høsten 2013
Digital culture students choose topics for their MA theses (13.11.2013)
New MA students in digital culture write project proposals for their MA theses in their first semester, and it's always interesting to follow their work from idea to fully formulated proposal. Here are the topics proposed by the students who started their MAs in August 2013!
What are the Digital Humanities? What are they in Norway? (26.06.2013)
Digital Humanities is a new term in Norway, and there is still debate as to whether or not to use the name at all. Jill Walker Rettberg reports from a seminar discussing this issue held at the University of Oslo last week. She also presented the ELMCIP project to the seminar.
Bidding farewell to Leonardo Flores (26.06.2013)
After a year as a Fulbright scholar at UiB, we are sorry to say goodbye to Leonardo Flores.
New Opportunities for Nordic Exchange (28.09.2009)
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 and best practices.

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