CDN Autumn Equinox: Open Research Day

CDN researchers and visitors return to share latest insights from their research.

In this autumn edition, CDN Equinox will host a full day of exciting insights and experiences from the world of Digital Narrative, at the Literature House in Bergen. Visitors and researchers of the Center for Digital Narrative will present and discuss their research in themed panels to showcase the variety of research and practice housed at the Center.

Come and partake of a sample of our vivid smorgasbord of digital culture and literature with delectable courses centered around AI stories, artistic practices, scholarship traditions to future approaches, games, XR, creativity and authority.

The event will be structured into thematic segments, fusing presentations, panels and audience Q&As. There will also be ample time allocated for breaks, providing opportunities to network, exchange feedback on ongoing projects, and share new concepts.

CDN Equinox Autumn 2026 Program

• 09:00-9:30 – Arrival coffee or tea, morning snack, and open conversation (please register so we have enough for everyone)
• 9:30-9:45 – Welcome from Scott Rettberg, Director of CDN
• 9:45-10:30 – Surfacing Narrative, Jessica Witte, David Jhave Johnston and Jakob Kusnick
  • Do you see AI-generated content everywhere around you? But which stories are they telling us, which cosmologies are represented, and how are narratives modeled to generate plots and stories? In this panel Jessica, Jhave, and Jakob engage with these questions using symbolic and neural AI approaches as well as computational and visual analysis to explore future interfaces for surfacing narrative.
• 10:30-11:15 – The Haunting of the Author, Yagmur Cisem Vik, Ingrid Ormevik and Hanna Hellesø Lauvli
  • You've heard of The Death of the Author, now get ready for the haunting! Follow Yagmur, Ingrid and Hanna as they introduce and discuss AI-generated texts haunted by authors, authorial contexts and questions of authority and creativity in this panel packed with djinn, uncanny portraits and slop.
• 11:15-12:15 – Lunch and informal discussion
• 12:15-13:00 – Tracing Patterns multi-sensorial, Jan Lietz, Aline Pena Gill, and Pedro Queirós Pinto/Pedro Velho
  • Are we sensing a pattern here? Aline, Pedro and Jan explore how digital technologies, and our behavior with them, shape the stories we encounter and the ways we make sense of them. From everyday experiences with algorithms and immersive narrative to motifs in LLM-generated literature, the session looks at how stories take form and change across digital systems.
• 13:00-13:45 – Rewriting Tradition, Anne Sigrid Refsum, Yolanda De Gregorio Robledo and Odile Farge
  • Anne Sigrid, Yolanda and Odile bring us back to creativity, storytelling and multimodal writing by presenting the myriad ways in which texts rethink and rewrite traditions. In this illustrative panel, get inspired by seeing synthetic storytellers, English and Spanish e-lit, and creative art practice!
• 13:45-14:15 – Refreshments and informal discussion
• 14:15-15:00 – Interactive Session, Jason Nelson and Frank Wisnes
  • How can paragraphs unfold through interaction? In this performative session, Jason and Frank, together with the audience, will interact with their writings and custom AI agents to explore what happens when text becomes responsive in real time.
• 15:00-15:45 – Playing Roles and Relationships, Tegan Pyke, Daniel Salinas Lara, Kristine Jørgensen
  • If you could be anyone you wanted to be, how would you (inter)act? Tegan, Daniel and Kristine tell us about the intricacies and intimacies of roleplay, gender and embodied positionalities in gaming, by shedding light on interactions with gamers and games, and the complex inter-relationships between them.
• 15:45-16:00 – Concluding remarks for the day, Anders Fagerjord, Head of Department, LLE & Jill Walker Rettberg, co-Director of CDN

• 16:30 - Reception at the CDN (for registered guests only).