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write a paper for JoDI

I’m acting editor for the Hypertext Criticism theme of JoDI, the Journal for Digital Information. I’ve been co-editing the theme along with Susana Tosca for a couple of years now, but this year’s Susana’s on maternity leave and has left it all […]

lunch with a web editor

I just had lunch with Tor Arne Fanghol, who’s the editor in charge of the internet section of Bergens Tidende, the local newspaper. It was really interesting hearing about their thoughts for the web newspape. Some interesting facts: They publish about 100,000 […]

short paper deadline for hypertext 2005

The short paper deadline for Hypertext 2005 was just extended till June 16. Have you ever written a short paper? I love them. They’re perfect for when you never got time to write the longer paper you were thinking of, or when […]

last chance for 60 second stories

Today’s the last chance to take part in the 60 second story competition — it doesn’t take long to make a story, and you can win amazing one-minute pleasures! Or just go look at the 60 second stories already created.

more norwegian sticker literature!

I was walking home from work when I found this sticker. A poem? A fragment of a sticker novel? It says: Jeg liker alvoret ditt. Jeg lukker ¯ynene og tenker p sommeren. Du lukter godt. Hjertet veier ca. 300 gram. Jeg pr¯ver […]

heaps of digital narratives

The digital narrative contest had ninety-three submissions! There were some really cool projects — we had the meeting yesterday. It’ll be wonderful seeing how some of these projects turn out!

in which we discuss norwegian research strategies

One of the more obviously useful sides of being the head of a department is that you get more information than you do as a lowly PhD student. And sometimes you actually get asked what you think about things, with half a […]

art criticism and blogging

Kunstkritikk.no has a blog about art criticism and blogging, written by Leif Magne Tangen and full of interesting links and thoughts about what art critics blogging, or criticism in blogs, might mean. (Yes, it was finding this blog with its link to […]

Street theatre: Istid by Bergen Byspill

After buying wonderful new blue and red sneakers with golden stripes that change colours and glimmer as you do cartwheels, my daughter and I walked out onto VÂgsalmenningen to find we were the audience of a street performance. Four men and women […]

fartein’s garden

One of the things I really want to do with this blog is write about networked and digital art and literature. I do far too little of that. I don’t attend the really interesting things that happen in Bergen because I’m tired […]