Talan Memmott:

The first event organised by the Electronic Literature Research Group at the University of Bergen is a lecture by visiting e-lit author, researcher, and new media artist Talan Memmott.

On Tuesday Feb 15th, in HF 371 from 12:15-2PM, Talan will present his dissertation-in-progress "Mythologies of Electronic Textuality." 

On Thursday evening Feb 17th, in HF 301 from 5-6:30PM, Talan will show and discuss some of his creative work including electronic literature and video work.

Talan Memmott is Assistant Professor / adjunkt in the Literature, Culture & Digital Media program at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Karlskrona, Sweden, and is both a researcher and an artist. He holds an M.F.A. in Electronic Writing, Brown University. Some of Talan's e-lit, video, critical writing and other curiosities can be found at: http://talanmemmott.org

Talan is also to be congratulated for the release this week of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2: http://collection.eliterature.org/2/ -- which includes 63 works of electronic literature. Talan was one of four editors of the anthology. Also note that UiB was a sponsor of the collection: http://collection.eliterature.org/2/extra/about.html along with MIT, Brown University, and other peer institutions.

We hope that you will be able to join us for one or both events. Later this term, we will two different Fulbright lecturers with us for three week stays: Mark Marino from the University of Southern California, and Rtia Raley from The University of California at Santa Barbara. We are planning several different events, including a release party for the ELC2, later in the term.