{"id":9619,"date":"2017-11-03T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:26:18","slug":"scott-rettberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/scott-rettberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | Combinatory Poetics in Electronic Literature and Cinema with Scott Rettberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/scott-rettberg\/scott_rettberg_photocred_henrick_beck\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9620\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/11\/scott_rettberg_photocred_henrick_beck-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/11\/scott_rettberg_photocred_henrick_beck-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/11\/scott_rettberg_photocred_henrick_beck.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>On <strong>Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library<\/strong>, Scott Rettberg will give a talk entitled, &#8220;Combinatory Poetics in Electronic Literature and Cinema.&#8221; This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the talk.<\/p>\n<p>Aleatory and combinatory poetic methods have been an ongoing concern of the avant-garde\u00a0stretching back to the early 20th century, and have crystallized as one of the main threads of\u00a0practice in electronic literature. Scott Rettberg will discuss how an interest in combinatory poetics\u00a0reflected first in projects such as the poetry generators \u201cFrequency,\u201d \u201cTokyo Garage,\u201d and \u201cAfter\u00a0Parthenope\u201d emerged in collaborations with Roderick Coover and Nick Montfort in the\u00a0combinatory film \u201cThree Rails Live\u201d and subsequently with Coover the feature-length\u00a0combinatory film \u201cToxi*City\u201d and the new work-in-progress (recently filmed in Ireland) \u201cCirce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Combinatory Poetics with Scott Rettberg\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYP3ne7dzBI?start=133&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Rettberg<\/strong> is Professor of Digital Culture\u00a0in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and\u00a0Aesthetic Studies at the\u00a0University of Bergen, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in English and is the author or co-author of novel-length works of electronic literature including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, Implementation, Toxi*City, Hearts and Minds: The\u00a0Interrogations Project\u00b7\u2014winner of\u00a0the 2016\u00a0Robert Coover award for a work of electronic literature\u2014and\u00a0others. His creative work has been\u00a0exhibited online and at art venues around\u00a0the world, including the Venice Biennale, the Nobel Peace\u00a0Prize Forum, ISEA,\u00a0the Santa Monica Museum in Barcelona, the Beall Center, the Slought\u00a0Foundation,\u00a0the Krannert Art Museum, and elsewhere. Rettberg is the cofounder and served as\u00a0the\u00a0first executive director of the nonprofit Electronic Literature\u00a0Organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: November 20, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 12 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence, RI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Scott Rettberg will give a talk entitled, &#8220;Combinatory Poetics in Electronic Literature and Cinema.&#8221; This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the talk. 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