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Center for Digital Narrative will be led by Scott Rettberg and Jill Walker Rettberg, and will be focused on digital narrative 鈥� forms of contemporary storytelling at the intersection of human intelligence, computational systems, and algorithmic processes, which we all produce, share, and scroll past each day.聽

Electronic literature in historical context

The CDN鈥檚 principal investigators include Kristine J酶rgensen, Nick Montfort, Jason Nelson, and Joseph Tabbi. Their activities will be supported by the creativity and expertise of a diverse team of interdisciplinary researchers from other universities around the world, expert in various aspects of digital narrative, who will work with the Norway-based team in 20% Professor II positions.聽聽The Professor IIs affiliated with the CDN during its first 5 years of operation will include researching:

Assistant Professor from the University of Waterloo, Canada, who will together with Joseph Tabbi develop case studies that explore electronic literature鈥檚 emergent genres in their historical context.

Lai-Tze Fan is an interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of media studies, science and technology studies, literary studies, design, and cultural studies who has developed innovative storytelling methods focused on knowledge mobilization and its accessibility to everyday citizens and key decision makers, often by addressing the unethical implications of technological design. One example of this work is her smartphone application , which she co-designed for the city of Montr茅al. The co-authored paper (2018) details the project鈥檚 stages of development and its method of 鈥渆mbodied knowing,鈥� where the user learns about spaces and objects through physical encounters.

Fan currently serves as an Editor and the Director of Communications for the open-access journal electronic book review and Editor of the digital review. Her most recent work on digital narrative, digital design, and knowledge mobilization is an independently edited, special double issue of both of these journals called (September 2021), funded by the federal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.

Computational models for narrative generation

Professor from the Universidad Aut贸noma Metropolitana in Cuajimalpa, Mexico, who will explore computational models for narrative generation alongside Nick Montfort.

is the founder-director of the , whose members have developed models for plot generation, the representation of social norms, visual narratives, interior design, visual composition, creative problem solving, and creative developmental agents. P茅rez y P茅rez himself is the author of , which generates short stories in English and Spanish about the Mexicas (also known as the Aztecs), the old inhabitants of what is today M茅xico City. It is based on the Engagement-Reflection Computer Model for Creative Writing, meaning that it can evaluate its own outputs and produce collaborative narratives. Twenty of the program鈥檚 bilingual creations are collected in a volume called , released by Counterpath Press in 2017.

P茅rez y P茅rez will publish the book with Professor Mike Sharples through Routledge later this year. It will explore machines as authors of fiction 鈥� past, present, and future 鈥� and cover the evolution of humans as story machines in themselves, together with discussions about AI neural networks for story generation, story-generating tools for writers, and story-led computer games.

Interactive games with therapeutical approaches

Dr. , Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University, Sweden, will research and model interactive games that seek to develop therapeutical approaches in collaboration with Kristine J酶rgensen.

Doris C. Rusch聽is the vision holder and lead designer on many award winning games dealing with mental health issues and other salient aspects of the human condition, among them (about depression); (on addiction); (about anxiety); and A Beautiful Story (on domestic violence and the cycle of abuse). She received the Spirit of Inquiry award for this work at DePaul University. Rusch is also the author of the Routledge book Making Deep Games: Designing Games with Meaning and Purpose, as well as numerous journal papers, book chapters, conference presentations, and keynotes at GDC, FDG, Meaningful Play, FROG, DiGRA and a variety of other well-known games conferences.

Her TEDx talk, captures the spirit of her practice well. In it, she presents a take on game design inspired by her practice as a life coach, discussing how the creation of games about personal issues in collaboration with others can stimulate dialogue, empathy, and deep interpersonal connection. At the same time, co-creating games can engender a liberating and playful distance to their subject matter, opening challenging problems up to safe exploration and concrete solutions.

Minority narratives in social media

Professor from 脴stfold University College, Norway, will lead a project on minority narratives in social media with Jill Walker Rettberg.

Lin Pr酶itz聽research has explored young people鈥檚 social engagement through photography; sexual-romantic encounters and negotiations via mobile communication services such as SMS; fantasies of happiness as these are played out on social media; and how new technologies and 鈥榙igital capitalism鈥� have affected how we understand and perform labour, among other topics. She was among the first scholars to do qualitative and ethnographic work on digital and mobile media communication, and her publications have been groundbreaking for understanding how new digital technologies move and disrupt not just the private-public boundary, but also how we feel and align ourselves with others.

She has applied a norm-critical perspective throughout her work, meaning that she continually explores how social categories such as gender, sexual identity and orientation, ability, class, race, ethnicity, economic status, religion, national origin, etc., act and interact with individuals鈥� conditions and possibilities. This perspective aims to make visible how knowledge and science are produced and how this knowledge production has the capacity to maintain and pursue inequality and difference.

Pr酶itz is originally educated as a photographer. Since 2011, she has collaborated with artists and curators to thematize public intimacies, such as in the iBook-publication .

Currently she is working on the art project 鈥淐orona-monologues.鈥� In this artwork, artists, authors, and researchers explore the multifaceted significance that the COVID-19 pandemic has had for relations between people 鈥� zooming in on belonging, community, and intimacy on the one hand, and on individualism, freedom, and distance, on the other.

Practed-based experimental research on digital narratives

Professor from York University, Canada, will collaborate with Scott Rettberg and Jason Nelson on practed-based experimental research seeking to extend the shape and scope of digital narrative.

Caitlin Fisher聽is co-founder of York's and director of the , Fisher鈥檚 research investigates the future of narrative by exploring interactive storytelling and interactive cinema using augmented reality (AR), which integrates artificially generated graphics, sounds, haptics, and smells into real-world environments. She is committed to innovation in the area of AR content creation; the pioneering of experimental literary forms; and the sustainability of a vibrant cross-disciplinary research culture, so foundational to the development of the expressive tools that will allow artists to explore and advance XR as an artistic medium.

Her hypermedia novella, , won the Electronic Literature Organization's 2001 Award for Fiction, and her augmented reality poem, , was awarded the 2008 International Vinaros Prize for Electronic Literature.

Fisher is Vice-President of the international Electronic Literature Organization and serves on the Executive Committee for HASTAC 鈥� the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory: 鈥淐hanging the Way We Teach and Learn.鈥� She is currently Chair of York University鈥檚 Department of Cinema and Media Arts.