CDN guests: Søren Pold, Joellyn Rock, Rob Wittig
Guest researchers to the Center for Digital Narrative.
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Søren Pold
"Søren Bro Pold (Digital Aesthetic Research Center, Aarhus University) has published on digital and media aesthetics – from the 19th century panorama to the interface in its different forms, e.g., electronic literature, net art, software art, platforms, AI, and digital culture. His main research field is interface criticism which discusses the role and the development of the interface for art, literature, aesthetics, culture and IT. He has also taken part in collaborative artistic research with e.g., The Poetry Machine and the Covid E-lit projects. He co-chaired the ELO 2021 conference."
Joellyn Rock
"Joellyn Rock is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at University of Minnesota Duluth. Her creative work includes digital print, interactive narrative, and experimental multimedia in a range of hybrid text/image/video projects. Interested in how emerging media is reshaping the ways that stories can be told, Rock helped establish the Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab at UMD. Collaborating with writers, coders, dancers, actors, and other visual artists, Rock contributes to experiments with networked improvised literature or Netprov."
Rob Wittig
"Rob Wittig is co-founder (1983) of IN.S.OMNIA, a literary electronic bulletin board system that pioneered the creative possibilities of the electrosphere and has been termed "legendary" by cyber-chronicler Howard Rheingold. Rob's book, Invisible Rendezvous, Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 1994), based on Fulbright work with Jacques Derrida, is an analysis of this early period of electronic literature. Rob coordinated several collaborations with members of the legendary French experimental literary group Ou.Li.Po. for IN.S.OMNIA. He also created web literature projects such as the faux-vernacular "Fall of the Site of Marsha," the chatroom novel "Friday's Big Meeting," and the hand-illustrated e-mail novel "Blue Company." Rob has worked and played for years in the graphic design and publishing industry. He teaches graphic design, art history and writing studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He completed an MA in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway in 2011."
