Espen Aarseth

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Personal website: 
ITU
Residency: 
Copenhagen
Denmark
Nationality: 
Norway
Record Status: 
Approved record
Born: 
1965
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Prior to coming to ITU in 2003, Aarseth was professor at the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, which he co-founded in 1996. Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gamestudies.org - the first academic journal of computer game research. Author of Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Johns Hopkins UP 1997), a comparative media theory of games and other aesthetic forms.

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Year
Computer Game Studies, Year One Article in an online journal 2001
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Book (monograph) 1997
Nonlinearity and Literary Theory Article or chapter in a book 1994

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Events arranged:

Event City Datesort descending Event type Edit link
Digital Arts and Culture 1998 Conference Bergen 26.11.1998 to 28.11.1998 Conference
Digital Arts and Culture 2000 Conference Bergen 02.08.2000 to 04.08.2000

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Affiliations:

Title
University of Bergen, Department of Humanistic Informatics

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