elmcip presentation edinburgh -- remediating the social
DESCRIPTION
Scott Rettberg's presentation of the ELMCIP research project for the Remediating the Social conference in Edinburgh, Nov. 1, 2012TRANSCRIPT
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