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

ELMCIPCONSORTIUM

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 CultureJill Walker Rettberg-Professor of Digital Culture

Individual project responsibilities: Overall project administrationSeminar 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 CultureTalan Memmott-Associate Professor of Digital Culture

Individual project responsibilities: Research on pedagogical models and electronic literature anthologies Workshop on electronic literature in educationProduction of ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature Team has included: David Prater, Patrick Thorsson, Martin Arvebro, Eric Snodgrass, Ali Teherani, Olawale David, andJoel Wennberg

Janez Strehovec- Associate Professor of New Media Theory

Individual project responsibilities: Seminar on New Media HistoriesIndividual 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 Digital PoeticsProposed publication of papers in: Arcadia. International Journal of Literary Culture.Individual research on topics including: Collaboration in Digital Literature, Digital paratexts, Materiality and Cultural memory in European Digital Literature, Poetics in Communities of Digital Authors.

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (NL)

Raine KoskimaaProfessor of Contemporary Culture Studies

Individual project responsibilities: Seminar on Electronic Literature Publishing and other venuesElectronic Literature Publishing survey

Team has included: Giovanna di Rosario, Markku Eskelinen

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ (FI)

Jerome Fletcher- Associate Professor of Performance Writing

Individual project responsibilities: Seminar on Electronic Literature and PerformanceSurvey of performance contextsCurate and exhibit performance works at project conference

PARTNERS

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALMOUTH (UK)

PARTNERS

EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART, U OF EDINBURGH (UK)

Simon Biggs- ProfessorPenny Travlou- Researcher in ethnography and digital culture

Individual project responsibilities:Ethnographic study of networked creative communitiesRemediating 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 BergenNovember 2008

Electronic Literature Communities SeminarUniversity 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 LiteratureUniversity of Bergen, June 2011

E-Literature and New Media Art SeminarLjubljana, Slovenia, September 2011

Digital Poetics and the PresentAmsterdam, December 2011

Digital Textuality with/in PerformanceBristol, May 2012

Significant Outputs

1124 Creative Works documented

1442 articles of Critical Writing documented

1254 authors referenced

Publishers, journals, and organizations mapped

Key conferences, exhibitions, seminars archived

…even as they unfold

Teaching resources made available on an open access

basis

Video and multimedia documentation of works and

events made accessible

Extensive cross-referencing to show works in their critical

contexts

Archival attachments such as full text pdfs and source code

Capturing the emergent vocabulary of a field

Enabling new forms of Humanities research

Remediating the Social book including full papers and artist

pages from the exhibition

ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature

Including 18 works from artists 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 communities, including 19 articles on different aspects of the focus. German journal published in English

Arcadia (2013): Special section of Dutch literary journal devoted to articles on Digital Poetics developed from ELMCIP Amsterdam seminar.

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

Primerjalna književnost (Comparative Literature), Vol. 2013, issue 1: Special section 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 reflecting on findings from the research presented at the seminars they hosted in the context of the larger themes of the ELMCIP project and its implications for future research and cultural policy.An ethnographic study of network-based creative communities, by Penny Travlou.A survey of Electronic Literature publishing venues, by the University of Jyväskylä team.Reflections by the editors and curators of the Remediating the Social exhibition and performance program and ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature on lessons learned and best practices in exhibiting and curating electronic literature.A digital humanities white paper on the development of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base and its implications for future humanities research endeavors, by the UiB team.

ELMCIP FINAL REPORT: JUNE 2013

As we approach the end of the ELMCIP project, we can testify that:Europe now stands on equal footing with North America as a center of activity in the field of electronic literature. The conferences and networking activity emerging from the ELMCIP project has helped to activate a dynamic European field of scholarly and creative practice. It is notable that next year (2013) both the E-Poetry Festival and the ELO conference will be hosted in Europe, in London and Paris, respectively.We have learned and published a great deal about networked creative communities, providing an example for other fields of practice.We have developed a substantive digital humanities research infrastructure for electronic literature, and helped to form an international 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 substantial impact in years to come than they do at their moment of initial release.

ELMCIP IMPACTS