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disappearing

I wish my trackbacks worked, but at least WordPress tells me when Technorati thinks someone linked to me. Here’s a short short story about a man who considers going ungoogleable. Damn good thing it’s a man, or I’d worry it was about […]

vernissage: Game Dump

Game Dump, an art game exhibition opens at Landmark here in Bergen tomorrow at 8 pm. One of the games is a “provocative dramatisation” of the theft of Munch’s Scream last year. Oh my, I think they’re showing Escape from Woomera, too, […]

the response a future reader will write

Yesterday I considered deleting my blog and trying to become one of the unGoogleable elite. Of course, with my job, I can’t be ungoogleable. I probably couldn’t remove all trace of my blog from the internet, either, even though I could remove […]

games and video blog event tonight

Tonight at 7 First Tuesday’s hosting an evening with free drinks and talks by game developers and technologists titled Creative Industries ñ Gaming, 3D, Videolog & networking. Yeah, right here in Bergen. Goodness. Found thanks to the portal some students at Infomedia […]

introduction to net art

My talk for curators at the national museum tomorrow will be based on my introduction to net art in Kunstkritikk (in Norwegian), with some extra links and tidbits too.

job application

I just applied for the job at comparative literature. Yeah, I know, when I mentioned it last night I didn’t really mean to apply, but after sleeping on it and having a chat with a colleague, I decided to do it. I […]

research fellowships in Edinburgh

The visiting research fellowships at the University of Edinburgh look rather tempting, although all they actually offer is an office, no funding, and they want you to have you recruit referees to write in confidence to them about you, which is a […]

planning

Tomorrow: finish reading 53 pages of MA thesis-in-progress meeting about thesis gather and send out documents about department to working group sent info, postpone rest till weekend secret thing I should have done fifteen years ago, involving buses to odd places (phew, […]

auditur

Wow, look at the Auditur festival: not only sound poetry, they’ve even got digital poetry! It actually collides with Aesthetics of Play, but I’m thinking I might skip most of the opening of the game exhibition (despite the free drinks) and scoot […]

when administration sucks

I just withdrew from a book project I was excited about because there literally aren’t enough hours in the day to write the article they’d asked me to write. Realistically, I should withdraw from at least two other projects, too, but damn […]