Scott Rettberg is an American digital artist and scholar of electronic literature based in Bergen, Norway.

[1][2][3] He leads the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence from 2023 to 2033.

[4] Rettberg is a professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

[15][16][17] The combinatory film Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative was created with Roderick Coover, and is described as a film that "shape-shifts each time it plays; an algorithm selects fragments from each of the six narratives and reconfigures them to create an ever-changing, yet thematically consistent, production"[18] In 2023 Rettberg began experimenting with using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate narratives[19] that "neither human nor AI could have created alone",[20] including the project Republicans in Love.

Rettberg co-founded the Electronic Literature Organization with Robert Coover and Jeff Ballowe in 1999.