Oh my. Today’s choice is of spot lights and down lights. The kitchen and dining area will have those elegant lights sunk into the ceiling (downlights in Norwegian, who knows what they’re called in English), and the hall and one bedrooom will […]

In an effort to teach less next semester (since I’m administrating far, far more) I’ve outsourced 2/3 of the course I usually teach on digital media aesthetics to Rune Klevjer, videogame expert and Scott Rettberg, electronic literature guru. Then I’m picking up […]

Does anyone have any experience with Gorenje fridges? Yes, I just spent two hours researching fridges. I’m renovating, which is awesome, and I’m so looking forward to moving into my upgraded, modern, compact apartment, but for the meantime I’m stuck figuring out […]

[Update: later that day. Goodness. Don’t you hate these “busier-than-thou” posts? Oh well, please forgive me, these things happen to the best of us… And I was feeling kinda guilty for not posting!] Among the next few weeks’ all-consuming tasks are: Read […]

The Bergen Festival’s on. There’s a sound installation in the greenhouse at MusÈhagen up at the university, and resonanCITY is a performance tonight at Teatergarasjen exploring “live cinema” using sounds collected locally. More info on new mediaish performances available at BEK.

Today’s seminar includes a talk by Terje Hillesund on e-books and open access (“Web browsers are designed for browsing, not for reading!”), Claire BÈlisle about how the materiality of books affects our conception of text and reading, and looking at how we […]

For my presentation today I’m going to hand out the draft of the paper I just had accepted to Hypertext ’05, about feral hypertext (yay!), but instead of discussing it directly I’m going to demonstrate the technology, which is I think less […]

There are more and more wonderful Norwegian blogs by literary people. I particularly enjoyed a recent post by ÿystein Vidnes criticising Norwegian book design: you see, most hardbook novels are designed so the author’s face is right at the left of the […]

This is fun: brand new words invented yesterday. The Norwegian Newspaper Corpus scrapes newspaper content from online versions of Norwegian newspapers, matches all the words against words used previously in this and other electronic corpuses (corpi?) they have access to, and lists […]

Stephen Shimanek is talking about creating a digital version of Alexandre Dumas’ journal Le Mousquetaire (work he’s doing with Sarah Mombert), and I’m struck by how much these early newspapers or journals might have had in common with blogs. Funny how many […]