ELMCIP is a 3-year collaborative research project running from June 2010-2013 and a part of the HERA Joint Research Project framework: 'Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation' ELMCIP involves seven European research partners and one non-academic partner investigating: How creative communities of practitioners form within a transnational and transcultural context in a globalized and distributed communication environment

ELMCIP CONSORTIUM

PARTNERS

PROJECT PARTNERS

In the USA, the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) functions as a hub for practictioners and theoreticians of electronic literature. While Europe is hosting key creative, theoretical and scholarly practitioners, events and communities of electronic literature – it has lacked a shared research infrastructure. ELMCIP seeks to gather the multitude of practices and theories in electronic literature, existing in a multi-linguistic and multicultural Europe, in order to create a shared archive and research network.

IMPACT & IMPORT

§  Series of case studies and research papers (for publications and conference presentations)

§  Series of public seminars and workshops §  International conference §  Public exhibition of electronic literature artworks and

performances §  Openly distributed publications

(conference proceedings, exhibition catalog, report, and special issues of journals)

§  Electronic Literature Knowledge Base (materials from seminars, project information, and an extensive cross-referenced bibliographic research platform)

§  Anthology of European Electronic Literature (Published on USB and an accessible website, including pedagogical materials)

OUTCOMES

6.UCF (UK)

5.UJ (FI)

3.UA (NL)2.BTH (SE)

1.UIB (NO)7.ECA (UK)

4.UL (SI)

Budget total: ≈ EUR 1 mill.

BUDGET

ELMCIP Budget has supported Researcher time (teaching buyouts) Post-docs and Ph.D.

Eric Rasmussen (UiB) David Prater (BTH) Giovanna di Rosario (UJ) Markuu Eskelinen (UJ) Magnus Lawrie (UE)

Technicians and Designers Administrative support Event costs Publication costs Artistic commission costs Development costs

 

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN (NO)

Scott Rettberg - Associate Professor of Digital Culture Jill Walker Rettberg - Professor of Digital Culture Individual project responsibilities: §  Overall project administration §  Seminar on Electronic Literature Communities §  Developing the Electronic Literature Knowledge Base §  Final report Team has included: Eric Rasmussen, Patricia Tomaszek, Elisabeth Nesheim, Stein Magne Bjørklund, Thomas Brevik, Aud Gjersdal, Meri Raita, Quinn Dombrowski, Fulbright researchers Davin Heckman and Leonardo Flores, guest researchers Mark Marino, Rita Raley, Luciana Gattass, Melissa Lucas, and UiB digital culture students

PARTNERS

BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SE)

Maria Engberg - Associate Professor of Digital Culture Talan Memmott - Associate Professor of Digital Culture Individual project responsibilities: §  Research on pedagogical models and electronic literature

anthologies §  Workshop on electronic literature in education §  Production of ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic

Literature Team has included: David Prater, Patrick Thorsson, Martin Arvebro, Eric Snodgrass, Ali Teherani, Olawale David, and Joel Wennberg

Janez Strehovec - Associate Professor of New Media Theory Individual project responsibilities: §  Seminar on New Media Histories §  Individual research on new media specificity of electronic

literature Seminar project assistant: Dr. Maja Murnik

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (SI)

Yra van Dijk - Assistant Professor of Modern Dutch Literature Individual project responsibilities: §  Seminar on New Media and Literary History §  Individual research on topics including: The Analysis of

Poetics in Digital Poetry, Poetics as a central factor in the formation of digital networks, recycling of European poetics in digital poetry

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (NL)

Raine Sakari Koskimaa - Professor of Digital Culture/Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanties Individual project responsibilities: §  Seminar on Electronic Literature Publishing and other venues §  Electronic Literature Publishing survey Team has included: Giovanna di Rosario, Markuu Eskelinen

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ (FI)

Jerome Fletcher - Associate Professor of Performance Writing Individual project responsibilities: §  Seminar on Electronic Literature and Performance §  Survey of performance contexts §  Curate and exhibit performance works at project conference

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALMOUTH (UK)

PARTNERS

EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART, U OF EDINBURGH (UK)

Simon Biggs - Professor Penny Travlou - Researcher in ethnography and digital culture Individual project responsibilities: §  Ethnographic study of networked creative communities §  Remediating the Social conference and exhibition Team has included: Elizabeth Hodson, Hadi Mehrpouya, Diego Zamora, Rocio von Jungenfeld, Karl Monsen, Angela Fernandez Orviz, Richard Ashrowan, Agnese Sile, Amy Guy, Gerry Smith, Jose Daniel Leal, Shu Wang. Design work by Dirty White Design (Ana Clara Barbara and Emmi Hartikainen)

Mark Daniels - Executive Director §  Collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art and University

College Falmouth to realize the Remediating the Social exhibition and performance program.

NON-ACADEMIC PARTNER

NEW MEDIA SCOTLAND (UK)

Significant Events

Electronic Literature in Europe, University of Bergen November 2008

Electronic Literature Communities Seminar University of Bergen, September 2010

Electronic Literature Publishing Seminar, University of Jyväskylä, March 2011

Workshop on Electronic Literature Pedagogy, Blekinge Institute of Technology, June 2011

International Workshop on Databases and Bibliographic Standards for Electronic Literature University of Bergen, June 2011

E-Literature and New Media Art Seminar Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2011

Digital Poetics and the Present Amsterdam, December 2011

Digital Textuality with/in Performance Bristol, May 2012

Significant Outputs

1124  Crea)ve  Works  documented  

1442  ar)cles  of  Cri)cal  Wri)ng  documented  

1254  authors  referenced  

Publishers,  journals,  and  organiza)ons  mapped  

Key  conferences,  exhibi)ons,  seminars  archived  

…even  as  they  unfold  

Teaching  resources  made  available  on  an  open  access  

basis  

Video  and  mul)media  documenta)on  of  works  and  

events  made  accessible  

Extensive  cross-­‐referencing  to  show  works  in  their  cri)cal  

contexts  

Archival  aKachments  such  as  full  text  pdfs  and  source  code  

Capturing  the  emergent  vocabulary  of  a  field  

Enabling  new  forms  of  Humani)es  research  

Remedia'ng  the  Social  book  including  full  papers  and  ar)st  pages  from  the  exhibi)on  

ELMCIP  Anthology  of  European  Electronic  Literature  

Including  18  works  from  ar)sts  from  10  different  countries,  in  

10  languages  

Also  including  video  lectures  and  pedagogical  materials  

§  Dichtung  Digital  41  (Spring  2012)  and  42  (Fall  2012):  Two  special  issues  focused  on  electronic  literature  communi)es,  including  19  ar)cles  on  different  aspects  of  the  focus.  German  journal  published  in  English  

§  Arcadia  (2013):  Special  sec)on  of  Dutch  literary  journal  devoted  to  ar)cles  on  Digital  Poe)cs  developed  from  ELMCIP  Amsterdam  seminar.  

§  Performance  Research  Journal  (2013):  Special  issue  of  the  UK  journal  of  the  centre  for  performance  research  On  Wri'ng  and  Digital  Media  developed  from  the  ELMCIP  Bristol  seminar.  

§  Primerjalna  književnost  (Compara've  Literature),  Vol.  2013,  issue  1:  Special  sec)on  on  "E-­‐Literature  and  New  Media  Art”  developed  from  the  Ljubljana  seminar.  

 

SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS

The  second  volume  published  by  the  ELMCIP  project,  the  final  report  will  include:  §  Short  chapters  by  each  of  the  PIs  reflec)ng  on  findings  from  the  research  

presented  at  the  seminars  they  hosted  in  the  context  of  the  larger  themes  of  the  ELMCIP  project  and  its  implica)ons  for  future  research  and  cultural  policy.  

§  An  ethnographic  study  of  network-­‐based  crea)ve  communi)es,  by  Penny  Travlou.  §  A  survey  of  Electronic  Literature  publishing  venues,  by  the  University  of  Jyväskylä  

team.  §  Reflec)ons  by  the  editors  and  curators  of  the  Remedia)ng  the  Social  exhibi)on  

and  performance  program  and  ELMCIP  Anthology  of  European  Electronic  Literature  on  lessons  learned  and  best  prac)ces  in  exhibi)ng  and  cura)ng  electronic  literature.  

§  A  digital  humani)es  white  paper  on  the  development  of  the  ELMCIP  Electronic  Literature  Knowledge  Base  and  its  implica)ons  for  future  humani)es  research  endeavors,  by  the  UiB  team.  

ELMCIP FINAL REPORT: JUNE 2013

As  we  approach  the  end  of  the  ELMCIP  project,  we  can  tes)fy  that:  §  Europe  now  stands  on  equal  foo)ng  with  North  America  as  a  center  of  ac)vity  in  

the  field  of  electronic  literature.  The  conferences  and  networking  ac)vity  emerging  from  the  ELMCIP  project  has  helped  to  ac)vate  a  dynamic  European  field  of  scholarly  and  crea)ve  prac)ce.  It  is  notable  that  next  year  (2013)  both  the  E-­‐Poetry  Fes)val  and  the  ELO  conference  will  be  hosted  in  Europe,  in  London  and  Paris,  respec)vely.  

§  We  have  learned  and  published  a  great  deal  about  networked  crea)ve  communi)es,  providing  an  example  for  other  fields  of  prac)ce.  

§  We  have  developed  a  substan)ve  digital  humani)es  research  infrastructure  for  electronic  literature,  and  helped  to  form  an  interna)onal  network  dedicated  to  such  work  and  to  the  global  sharing  of  open-­‐access  data  and  scholarship  in  the  field.  

§  The  research  infrastructure  we  have  developed  (Knowledge  Base,  Anthology  of  European  Electronic  Literature,  books,  and  journal  issues)  will  have  even  more  substan)al  impact  in  years  to  come  than  they  do  at  their  moment  of  ini)al  release.  

 

ELMCIP IMPACTS