ELMCIP is a 3-year collaborative research project
running from 2010-2013 and a part of the HERA JRP:
'Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation'
ELMCIP involves 7 European research partners and
1 non-academic partner who will investigate:
How creative communities of practitioners form
within a transnational and transcultural context
in a globalized and distributed communication
environment
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PROJECT PARTNERS
ELMCIP
CONSORTIUM
PARTNERS
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS & OBJECTIVES
¤ Understand how creative communities form and
interact through distributed media
¤ Document and evaluate various models
and forces of creative commuities in the field of
electronic literature
¤ Examine how electronic literature communities
benefit from current educational models and develop
pedagogical tools
¤ Study how electronic literature manifests in
conventional cultural contexts and evaluate the
effects of distributing and exhibiting e-lit in such
contexts.
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IMPACT & IMPORTANCE
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 still lacks a shared research
infrastructure.
ELMCIP seeks to gather the multitude of practices
and theories in electronic literature, existing in a multilinguistic and multicultural Europe, in order to create a
shared archive and research network.
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OUTCOMES
¤ Series of case studies and research papers
(for publications and conferences)
¤ Series of public seminars
¤ Online knowledge base
(materials from seminars, project information and
an extensive bibliographic record of e-lit works)
¤ Pedagogy workshop and anthology
(Resulting in extensive documentation, presented as
an accessable website and DVD-ROM)
¤ International conference
¤ Public exhibition of electronic literature artworks
and performances
¤ Openly distributed publications
(conference proceedings, exhibition catalog, project
documentation and a DVD anthology of e-lit works)
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ORGANIZATION
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TIMELINE
Jan-Feb
2010
Mar-May
2010
Jun-Aug
2010
Sep-Dec
2010
Jan-March Apr-Jun
2011
2011
Jul-Sep
2011
Oct-Dec
2011
Jan-Mar
2012
Apr-Jun
2012
Jul-Sep
2012
Oct-Dec
2012
Jan-Feb
2013
Ethnography
Prepare case
studies and
field work
Liaison with elitO, Nvivo
training
Field work
begins
Field work and Field work
Interim report
Field work
Field work
complete
Ethnographic
analysis
Draft analysis
Conference
preparation
Final report,
conference
presentation
Preparation
of final
report
Seminars
UiB: E-Lit
Communities
UA: Digital
Poetics
UJ: E-Lit
Publishing
BTH: E-Lit
Pedagogy
UL: New
Media
Histories
Beta-testing
and final
design of KB
Post UA
seminar docs,
full launch of
KB
Post UJ
seminar docs,
E-Lit
publishing
Directory
Post BTH
seminar docs,
conference
website launch
Post UCF
seminar docs,
conference
registration
interface
Post
conference,
exhibition,
performance
programme
Ethnography
report online
Final report
and
conference
docs online
Appoint
technician
Call for works
Select works,
design
Production
Launch at
conference
Distribution
Pre-publicity
Final planning
Online
Knowledge
Base (KB) and
website
Appoint
technician
Launch initial
public version
of KB, mailing
lists.
Post UiB
seminar docs,
ethnography
weblog
DVD Anthology
Programme
meeting
Conference
Exhibition &
Performance
Planning with
NMS
Call for
proposals
Publications
Draft E-Lit
publishing
report
Prep
performance
survey
Steering
Committee
Advisory Board
Meeting
SC Meeting:
Consortium
Agreement
SC meeting:
project launch
at the SL
Post UL seminar
docs, mid-project
report, online
anthology
Post outline
conference
programme
Final editing
Beta-testing
Call for papers
/ works
Peer review
Completed
papers
Peer review
Final selection of
works,
performers
Production with
NMS
Mid-project
report
Conduct
performance
survey
Edit Slovenian
Amfiteater
journal
SC meeting:
finalise midproject
reportSC
Meet to review
activity plan
University of Bergen
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Final E-Lit
publishing
report
UCF: Performing
E-Lit
Finalise
programme
Design
catalogue and
proceedings
Conference
Site visits and
preparation
Exhibition and
performances
Edit
Performance
Research
Journal
Publish
catalogue and
proceedings
Publish final
report
SC meeting:
Finalise report
SC signs off
accounts
and report
SA meeting:
Project oversight
Mid-project
review meeting
Oversight
meeting
Blekinge Institute of Technology
University of Ljubljana
University College Falmouth
University of Amsterdam
University of Jyväskylä
Edinburgh College of Art
BUDGET
¤ Budget total: ≈ EUR 1 mill.
¤ Partners from UIB, BTH and ECA have a larger budget
share due to use of post-docs and a PhD student.
7.ECA (UK)
1.UIB (NO)
6.UCF (UK)
5.UJ (FI)
4.UL (SI)
2.BTH (SE)
3.UA (NL)
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PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN (NO)
Scott Rettberg
- Associate Professor of Digital Culture
(electronic literature, new media, co-founder of ELO)
Jill Walker Rettberg
-Associate Professor of Digital Culture
(digital textuality, social networks, blogging)
Individual project:
¤ Overall project administration
¤ Building the online knowledge base
¤ Spring 2010:
Appoint UIB post-doc
¤ Spring 2010:
Seminar on Electronic Literature Communities
¤ Final report
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PARTNERS
BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SE)
Maria Engberg
- Associate Professor of English and Digital Media
(experimental English literature, digital poetry and technologies)
Talan Memmott
-Associate Professor of English and Digital Media
(new media artist and author, applied technology)
Individual project:
¤ Spring 2010:
Appoint BTH post-doc
Research on pedagogical models and electronic literature
anthologies
¤ Spring 2011:
Workshop on electronic literature in education
¤ Autumn 2012:
Production of DVD anthology on European electronic literature
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PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (NL)
Yra van Dijk
- Assistant Professor of Modern Dutch Literature
(modern and digital poetry, Dutch literature)
Individual project:
¤ Autumn 2011:
Seminar on New Media and Literary History
¤ Winter 2010/2011
Publication #1: The Analysis of Poetics in Digital Poetry
¤ Winter 2011/2012
Publication #2: Poetics as a central factor in the formation of digital
networks
¤ Winter 2012
Publication #3: The recycling of European poetics in digital poetry
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PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (SI)
Janez Strehovec
- Associate Professor of New Media Theory
(cyberarts, digital literature and internet culture)
Individual project:
¤ Autumn 2011:
Seminar on New Media Histories
¤ Spring 2011:
Case study on new media specificity of electronic literature
¤ Winter 2012
Presentation at project conference on findings
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PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ (FI)
Raine Sakari Koskimaa
- Professor of Digital Culture/Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanties
(Digital culture, electronic literature and digital arts)
Individual project:
¤ Spring 2010
Electronic Literature Publishing survey
¤ Spring 2011:
Seminar on Electronic Literature Publishing and other venues
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PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALMOUTH (UK)
Jerome Fletcher
- Senior Lecturer in Writing
(writing, performing of digital and experimental texts)
Individual project:
¤ Spring 2011
Call for performance works
¤ Autumn 2011
Survey of performance contexts
¤ Spring 2012
Seminar on Electronic Literature and Performance
¤ Winter 2012:
Curate and exhibit performance works at project conference
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PARTNERS
EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART (UK)
Simon Biggs
- Professor, artist, writer and curator
(electronic arts, digital poetics and interactive systems)
Penny Travlou
- Post-doctoral Researcher
(ethnography and digital culture)
Individual project:
¤ Spring 2010
Appoint PhD-student
¤ Autumn 2011
Ethnographic study of networked creative communities
¤ Spring 2012
Ethnographic analysis of findings
¤ Autumn 2012:
Planning of project conference and curating exhibition
¤ Winter 2012:
Project conference and exhibition
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NON-ACADEMIC PARTNER
NEW MEDIA SCOTLAND (UK)
Mark Daniels
- Executive Director
(contemporary art, new media producer and curator)
¤ Collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art and University
College Falmouth to realize the exhibition and performance
program at the project conference in Edinburgh winter 2012.
Tasks include: Co-curation, coordination and management of
exhibition opening event, and maintenance of artworks and the
exhibition space for the during of the exhibition (2 weeks)
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