Digital Culture at the University of Bergen

14/07/2025

CDN PI Jason Nelson has been awarded the Electronic Literature Organization’s Maverick Award! Congrats to Jason on this major recognition from his field. The Maverick is a special award for authors who pursue an unconventional path, blazing new trails and forging new ways of thinking about digital writing.

14/06/2025

31/05/2025

🎓 Ready to decode the digital world?
At the University of Bergen’s Digital Culture program, we explore how technology shapes society, creativity, and identity — from AI art to internet politics, memes to metaverses. Whether you're an undergrad or postgrad, join a vibrant international community where critical thinking meets cutting-edge digital practice.

💻 Think digitally. Create critically. Study in Bergen.
👉 Learn more about us:
https://www.uib.no/en/discipline/digitalculture



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08/05/2025

Three Digital Culture students from the University of Bergen have been shortlisted for the prestigious New Media Writing Prize 2025 with works created as part of their degrees! We have students in the categories of: The Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize, The Student Prize, The Social Good Prize, and The Opening Up Prize. Please wish them SUPER GOOD LUCK for the awards ceremony on the 14th of this month!

Check out their works here:

Life by Olive Tonheim: https://olivehavre.itch.io/life
One Lonely World by Vegard Fotland: https://kingduckiv.itch.io/one-lonely-world
Repercussions by Jessie van Balkom: https://jessievanbalkom.itch.io/repercussions

The Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize:
Life by Olive Tonheim
Repercussions by Jessie van Balkom
One Lonely World by Vegard Fotland

The Student Prize:
Life by Olive Tonheim
One Lonely World by Vegard Fotland

The Social Good Prize:
Life by Olive Tonheim
Repercussions by Jessie van Balkom

The Opening Up Prize:
Life by Olive Tonheim

The New Media Writing Prize is sponsored by Bournemouth University, if:book, Writing Magazine, FIPP: Connecting Global Media, Wonderbox Digital, and University of Birmingham.

03/05/2025

Hey remember this time last year when we made this post about the New Media Writing Prize 2024 shortlist (works from 2023), and then totally ghosted you on the outcome? 👀 Well as some of you may know by now, Digital Culture student projects WON both the Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize and The Student Prize at the 2024 NMWP this time last year! Florence Walker took out the main prize with her MA Thesis project 'I Dreamt of Something Lost': https://bodypoetic.itch.io/i-dreamt-of-something-lost and undergraduate Emma Husa took out The Student Prize with her final creative project from our Electronic Literature class, 'Polterkicks': https://geit0sten.itch.io/polterkicks. We couldn’t have been prouder — huge congratulations to Florence and Emma, and to everyone exploring the future of storytelling with us in Digital Culture at UiB! 🎉📚✨ Our winners, shortlisters, Digital Culture, and The Center for Digital Narrative all celebrated together with cake, flowers, and speeches! 💐

15/10/2024

The More Than Meets AI exhibition from The Center for Digital Narrative is expanding! From Kunstgarasjen to Langesgate 1, to Bergen International Film Festival and KMD. Come and celebrate the openings with us this week!

27/09/2024

We're showcasing AI/human collaborations around Langes Gate 1 og 3 as part of the five-venue "More than Meets AI" exhibition by The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) and its Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) node. Come in and take a look until October 25! Our public opening hours are 13:00 to 16:00 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Other sections of the More than Meets AI exhibition will be opening between now and the 16th of October across 1) Kunstgarasjen (open) 2) USF Verftet for Bergen International Film Festival (opens 16 Oct) and 3) Rom 61 KMD & Joy Forum, KMD (opens 15 Oct).

Curators note:
More than Meets AI investigates AI and its role in creativity, narrative, and artistic innovation. We do so from a critically engaged perspective, one that both celebrates the new potentialities of AI for the arts and literature, while simultaneously considering some of the significant challenges AI poses for our culture and society. Curated by Eamon O'Kane, Jhave Johnston, Scott Rettberg, Jill Miller and Alex Saum.

06/09/2024

Project focus: This week Digital Culture staff Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson have installed five permanent heritage facade projections onto the Commissariat Building in Brisbane, Australia, as part of their wider innovative research exploring Global South cultural history through mixed reality (MR) design.

Check out some of these test images!

Digital Culture aims to work with students to analyze MR/XR aesthetics, and envision possible future career paths in digitally-engaged cultural sectors.

06/08/2024

https://fulbrightscholars.org/award/digital-culture-6

The Digital Culture Fulbright deadline is coming up MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024. We have hosted Digital Culture Fulbrights for 14 years now. Our Fulbrights teach into our program and participate in our world-class research environment at the Center for Digital Narrative. It is a great opportunity for US-based researchers.

Norway Updated on Feb 2nd, 2024 Name Aferdita Krasniqi (she/her) Phone 212-984-5326 Email [email protected] Title Outreach and Recruitment Specialist

13/05/2024

The Digital Culture department is very proud to announce that our 2023 DIKULT student cohort has seen an unprecedented three shortlisted and one further longlisted project for the prestigious global New Media Writing Prize. We wish them all the best of luck for the awards ceremony on Wednesday night!

Shortlisted:

What Remains? by Vegard Fotland:
An interactive narrative that explores the relationship between glitch art and mental disorder. It tells the story of a young child who goes through tremendous turmoil and the trauma, anxiety and disassociation that follows. Through the use of visual and auditory glitching, the emulation of corrupted code, the piece works to connect the viewer with the experiences of the character. Trigger warning contains depictions of violence, suicidal tendencies and disassociation.

Polterkicks by Emma Husa:
A comedic interactive story about two ghosts with beautiful long legs, competing in a Wild West-style shoot out to decide who has the best legs in town.

I DREAMT OF SOMETHING LOST by Florence Walker:
A short interactive narrative about data, grief, and memory. You take control of Jules as they sit down to their desktop computer and discover a new message from their ex-girlfriend - who died a year ago to the day.

Longlist:

Dysthymia: A story about mental disorder by Bernard Radojkic:
A game illustrating the experience and the struggle of someone with dysthymia. Demanding skills such as precision, rapid reading, and coordination, Dysthymia is intended to be frustrating in order to paint the picture and help characterise the difficulty of coping with the disorder. The main goal of this game is to inspire, educate, and spread awareness about dysthymia.

Read more about the award:
https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354856517726603
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media_Writing_Prize

26/04/2024

Congratulations to to Dr. Linda Kronman, her supervisor Jill Walker Rettberg and the whole Machine Vision team on today’s successful PhD defense of her dissertation “Performing Bias: Conceptions of Machine Vision Bias in Digital Art”.