If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

ALGOpod #8: Craig Ryder

new ALGOpod episode with @drryder.bsky.social on Sri Lankan influencer activism, internet shutdowns, and small platform ethnography open.spotify.com/episode/56Io...

Where an idea is believed to come from matters. And when those origins are obscured, things get really interesting. That's the basis of my latest *open access* chapter, 'The Obscurity of Origins in Reality Formation: Slender Man and Digital Mythology'.

Come stay with us! We're nice, and we will provide you with an umbrella!

Lina Ruth Harder: Unreal Ancestors – Reimagining History Through AI YouTube video by DHKO

In March, Lina Ruth Harder from UiB's Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social discussed how generative image systems produce convincing visions of history and why these images matter for research, teaching and public memory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE...

#algorithmicfolklore is wild, man

Episode 45 - Don’t Let AI Neutralize Your Voice with Kishonna Gray

When @kishonna.bsky.social visited CDN, she shared her feelings about "Synthetic Kishonna", a generic AI clone of herself. In our new podcast, she and @jilltxt.bsky.social discuss how this "distillation of blackness" erases her real identity.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7ETb... 🎙️

Im wearing my invisibility sweater in Morgenbladet’s long article about surveillance and Meta’s glasses. www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/overv...

The material life of Italian Brainrot Some observations on how the synthetic mythos of nonsensical characters might also be the first repertoire of AI-generated content to take physical form at a global scale.

brainrot materials algofolk.substack.com/p/the-materi...

I couldn't resist

Hanna Lauvli inyroduces the first panelists: Tom Legierse and @mikkomerilainen.bsky.social are speaking about Men, Masculinities and Feminist Gaming Futures.

Todays program, the recording will be available here later: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

"We got a good ‘ting’ going," he says, quoting one of his favourite Norwegian words, ‘ting’, which means thing, but also gatherings and assemblies – our parliament is even called Stortinget, The Big Thing: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

@srettberg.bsky.social welcomes the crowd to CDN Equinox, our semiannual open research day.

It's my turn to cook Wednesday lunch at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social today. I'm making carrot and lentil soup with bread from Godt Brød. Taking turns cooking for each other been one of the best community-building things we've done at CDN. Sharing homemade food is good for us. Oh, we have talks too!

Are you interested in being a guest researcher at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in the spring of 2027? Apply for our Fellowship! Funds cannot cover salary, but cover extra costs associated with spending a semester abroad for people with PhDs in full time jobs. Deadline 15 May. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Om éi veke held vi open dag i #Bergen med CDN Equinox, kom for å høyre om noko av det vi held på med: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen

new ALGOpod episode with Santtu Raisanen discussing "convenience content" and other absurdities of algorithmic culture (subscribe to the official @cdn-bergen.bsky.social podcast Off Center!) open.spotify.com/episode/2AQ0...

Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments. Through analyses of rhyme and rhythm, it reveals how large language models (L...

Our next Critical AI Theory Reading Group meeting is coming up on Tuesday at noon Norway time. We're reading @ryanheuser.com's paper doi.org/10.22148/001... - if you've read the paper and want to discuss it, join us in the glass house at CDN.

Computational Writing 2026 Explore the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking programming.

Deadline to apply is March 11! Come to this self-directed September residency at Banff w/ me, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Kalen Iwamoto

www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

🚨 It's publication day! 🚨

My latest article has been published in the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds!

'What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II, according to players: How players understand game development in the context of a poor digital game launch'.

ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina

new ALGOpod episode with Anya Shchetvina (@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social) going deep into the history of internet manifestos open.spotify.com/episode/5N0r...

I'm one of five who has each written briefly on this topic for LARB

lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-intel...

I think we have all of us here at the moment, feel free to follow our researchers: bsky.app/profile/cdn-...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Critical AI Theory Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The AI STORIES project at the Center for Digital Narrative at UiB invites you to a series of reading group discussions about critical theory and AI. Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2026. “Technofascism: AI, Big...

The first hybrid Critical AI Theory Reading Group starts in an hour and 43 minutes, at noon Central European time. We're discussing Coeckelbergh's new paper on technofascism: doi.org/10.1007/s001... Register here if you have read the paper and want to discuss: uib.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

UiB AI #18: AI, Language and Identity YouTube video by Universitetet i Bergen

See the recording of the #UiBAI seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8H6.... @uibai.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

UiB AI #18 AI, Language and Identity The first UiB AI seminar of the year, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, is about language models and how they affect human communication, narratives and identity.

How do language models affect human communication, narratives and identity? Join our researchers live at or streamed #UiBAI #18 on Friday February 13th at 10.00 (CET):

www.uib.no/en/ai/181273... @jilltxt.bsky.social @hannaroine.bsky.social @srettberg.bsky.social

Critical AI Theory Discussion Lunches There are so many interesting critical theory essays coming out about AI these days and I want to discuss them with people. So I’m proposing a reading group, small and informal, bring your ow…

There are a lot of interesting critical theory papers on AI coming out these days and I want to discuss them with people, so I've started a reading group to meet some Tuesdays this semester at lunchtime here at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in Bergen. Bring your lunch and come! jilltxt.net/critical-ai-...

UiB AI #17 AI, Language and Identity The first UiB AI seminar of the year, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, is about language models and how they affect human communication, narratives and identity.

If you're interested in AI and in Bergen you should come to the UiB AI seminar on Friday, Feb 13th from 10-12, featuring @hannaroine.bsky.social, Zahra Rizvi, Scott Rettberg and me from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! If you're not in Bergen, you can sign up to watch it online. www.uib.no/en/ai/181273...

More Than Meets AI An exhibition investigating AI and its role in creativity, narrative, and artistic innovation

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