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Biography
Scott Rettberg is an American digital artist and scholar of electronic literature based in Bergen, Norway. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Electronic Literature Organization.
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.
Scholarship
Rettberg is a Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities.
Rettberg is the project leader of the HERA-Funded ELMCIP research project, and the director of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.
Artistic career
Rettberg's cinematic collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, received the Robert Coover Award in 2016. The annual award is given by the Electronic Literature Organization each year in recognition of an outstanding work of electronic literature.