[Purple-Blurb] Scott Rettberg on Monday 4/28 5:30pm, 14N-310

[Nick Montfort]

Please join us for our next Purple Blurb:

Scott Rettberg

This Monday, 4/28 5:30pm
In MIT's 14N-310
Free & open to the public

This Monday Purple Blurb is proud to host a screening and discussion of 
narrative video art work done by Scott Rettberg in collaboration with 
Roderick Coover, including The Last Volcano, Cats and Rats, Three Rails 
Live, and Toxicity. (The last two are combinatory pieces; Three Rails Live 
is a collaboration between Coover, Rettberg, and Nick Montfort.) These 
pieces deal with personal and global catastrophes and are written across 
languages, with one of the voices in Cats and Rats in (subtitled) 
Norwegian. They continue Rettberg’s work on novel-length electronic 
literature projects and his frequent collaboration with others.

Scott Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture in the department of 
Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, 
Norway. Rettberg is the project leader of ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as 
a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice), a HERA-funded 
collaborative research project, and a founder of the Electronic Literature 
Organization. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of novel-length works of 
electronic literature, combinatory poetry, and films including The 
Unknown, Kind of Blue, Implementation, Frequency, Three Rails Live, and 
Toxicity. His creative work has been exhibited online and at art venues 
including the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum, Palazzo dell Arti 
Napoli, Beall Center, the Slought Foundation, and The Krannert Art Museum.

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  -Nick