Off Center

By Off Center, a Podcast from the Center For Digital Narrative

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Off Center is a podcast series from the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Center of Research Excellence at the University of Bergen, Norway. In each episode, host Scott Rettberg and a guest delve into a topic revolving around digital storytelling and its effect on contemporary culture. The series covers academic research on digital narratives in electronic literature, computer games, social media, computational narrative systems, AI, XR and more in an enjoyable and understandable way.

Episode Date
The AI Update XXI - Controversy Part 1
Apr 27, 2026
ALGOpod #8: Craig Ryder
Apr 20, 2026
Episode 46: "The Wrong Body; Diverse Bodies and Digital Narratives" Live Panel with Hannah Ackermans, Ella Holi and Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Apr 14, 2026
ALGOpod #7: Bokar N'Diaye
Apr 06, 2026
The AI Update XX - AI Consciousness
Mar 31, 2026
Episode 45 - Don’t Let AI Neutralize Your Voice with Kishonna Gray
Mar 24, 2026
Episode 44: AI Characters with Lukas Wilde
Mar 16, 2026
ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen
Mar 09, 2026
Episode 43 - AI and the Humanities with Davis Schneiderman
Mar 02, 2026
ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina
Feb 23, 2026
The AI Update XIX - World Models
Feb 16, 2026
Episode 42 - 18th Century AI Slop with Hazel Wilkinson
Feb 09, 2026
The AI Update XVIII - Musical Futures
Feb 02, 2026
Christmas Special Holiday Extravaganza Show
Dec 17, 2025
ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver
Dec 15, 2025
The AI Update XVII - Incest Economy
Dec 08, 2025
Episode 41 - Digital Art and Meaning with Roberto Simanowski
Dec 01, 2025
The AI Update XVI: Anthropic Copyright Settlement
Nov 17, 2025
ALGOpod #3: Minna Ruckenstein
Nov 10, 2025
Episode 40: From Cybertext to Video Game Studies with Espen Aarseth
Nov 04, 2025
ALGOpod #2: Guro Flinterud
Oct 21, 2025
The AI Update XV: An Eye for AI Cinema @ BIFF 2025
Oct 14, 2025
Episode 39: Tech-assisted Novels with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Oct 06, 2025
The AI Update XIV: AI and Writing
Sep 29, 2025
Episode 38: e-lit in India with Samya Brata Roy
Sep 22, 2025
ALGOpod #1: Joan Mukogosi
Jun 04, 2025
Episode 37: Algopod, Interviews with David and Benji
May 27, 2025
The AI Update XIII: AI and Research
Mar 18, 2025
Episode 36: Digital Puppetry with David Bithell
Mar 11, 2025
The AI Update XII: AI Fascism
Mar 04, 2025
Episode 35: The Ban on Social Media, AI, and the Digital Child with Tama Leaver
Feb 25, 2025
The AI Update XI: AI Alien Simulation Worlds
Feb 18, 2025
Episode 34: Output
Feb 11, 2025
The AI Update X: O3
Feb 06, 2025
Episode 33: Interspecies Communication and New Media Art with Alinta Krauth
Jan 28, 2025
The AI Update IX: Predictions for 2025 in AI and Narrative
Jan 21, 2025
The AI Update VIII: AI and Violence
Dec 17, 2024
Episode 32: Creepypasta, Fandoms, and AI Assistants with with Marianne Gunderson
Dec 10, 2024
The AI Update VII: AI goes Hollywood
Dec 03, 2024
Episode 31: Net Art and Fiction with Mark Amerika
Nov 26, 2024
The AI Update VI: AI Agents
Nov 19, 2024
Episode 30: Digital Poetics and Disability Aesthetics with Talan Memmott
Nov 12, 2024
The AI Update V: Reasoning AI
Nov 05, 2024
Episode 29: Dark Tourism with Nicole Basaraba
Oct 29, 2024
The AI Update IV: Nobel Prizes for AI Research
Oct 22, 2024
Episode 28: Game Poems with Jordan Magnuson
Oct 15, 2024
Remembering Robert Coover
Oct 11, 2024
The AI Update III: AI-made Podcasts
Oct 08, 2024
Episode 27: Video Game Monstrosity with Jaroslav Švelch
Oct 01, 2024
The AI Update II: Future of Cinema
Sep 24, 2024
Episode 26: Digital Media, Performance, and AR with Kat Mustatea
Sep 17, 2024
The AI Update I: More Than Meets AI Exhibition
Sep 10, 2024
Episode 25: AI Cinema with Will Luers
Sep 03, 2024
Episode 24: Netprov with Rob Wittig
Jul 16, 2024
Episode 23: Tactical Publishing with Alessandro Ludovico
Jul 02, 2024
Episode 22: Platformization and COVID E-LIT with Søren Pold
Jun 18, 2024
Episode 21: Digital Ethnography and Algorithmic Folklore with Gabriele de Seta
Jun 04, 2024
Episode 20: AI Essayistic with Mario Aquilina
May 21, 2024
Episode 19: Critical Software Art with Ben Grosser
May 07, 2024
Episode 18: Speculative Design with Sarah Edmands Martin
Apr 23, 2024
Episode 17: Transgressive Games and Understanding Male Gamers with Kristine Jørgensen
Apr 09, 2024
Episode 16: Alternate Reality Games with Patrick Jagoda
Mar 26, 2024
Episode 15: Surveillance Microcosms with Mathias Klang
Mar 12, 2024
Episode 14: Machine Vision with Jill Walker Rettberg 
Feb 27, 2024
Episode 13: Creative AI with David Jhave Johnston
Feb 13, 2024
Episode 12: Existential Transformative Game Design with Doris Rusch
Jan 02, 2024
Episode 11: Filmmaking and Combinatory Cinema with Roderick Coover
Dec 19, 2023
Episode 10: Immersive Storytelling in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality with Caitlin Fisher
Dec 05, 2023
Episode 9: Hypertext as Technology and Literature with Robert Arellano
Nov 24, 2023
Episode 8: Fanfiction as a Form of Digital Narrativity with Flourish Klink
Nov 07, 2023
Episode 7: Computational Narrative Systems and Platform Studies with Nick Montfort
Oct 24, 2023
Episode 6: Gendered AI and Editorial Labour in Digital Culture with Lai-Tze Fan
Oct 10, 2023
Episode 5: AI, Computational Creativity, and Media Production with Drew Keller
Sep 25, 2023
Episode 4: Meme Culture, Social Media, and the January 6th Insurrection with Ashleigh Steele
Sep 12, 2023
Episode 3: Artistic Research and Digital Writing, with Jason Nelson
Aug 29, 2023
Episode 2: The Electronic Book Review and Building the Field of Electronic Literature, with Joseph Tabbi
Aug 15, 2023
Episode 1: Introducing the Center for Digital Narrative, with Jill Walker Rettberg
Aug 02, 2023