Scott Rettberg

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 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]

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