ELMCIP was a 3-year collaborative research project running from 2010-2013 that investigated how creative communities form within a transnational context in a globalized communication environment. It involved seven European research partners and one non-academic partner. The project gathered electronic literature practices and theories from across Europe to create a shared archive and research network, and produced case studies, publications, conferences, and the Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.

2. 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

4. PROJECT PARTNERS
ELMCIP
CONSORTIUM
PARTNERS

5. IMPACT & IMPORT
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.

6. OUTCOMES
§ 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)

7. BUDGET
ELMCIP Budget has supported
Researcher time (teaching buyouts)
Budget total: ≈ EUR 1 mill. Post-docs and Ph.D.
Eric Rasmussen (UiB)
David Prater (BTH)
7.ECA (UK)
1.UIB (NO)
Giovanna di Rosario (UJ)
Markuu Eskelinen (UJ)
Magnus Lawrie (UE)
6.UCF (UK)
5.UJ (FI)
2.BTH (SE)
3.UA (NL)
4.UL (SI)
Technicians and Designers
Administrative support
Event costs
Publication costs
Artistic commission costs
Development costs

8. 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

9. 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

10. PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (SI)
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

11. PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (NL)
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

12. PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ (FI)
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

13. PARTNERS
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALMOUTH (UK)
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

14. 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)

15. NON-ACADEMIC PARTNER
NEW MEDIA SCOTLAND (UK)
Mark Daniels
- Executive Director
§ Collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art and University
College Falmouth to realize the Remediating the Social
exhibition and performance program.

16. Significant Events

17. Electronic Literature in Europe, University of Bergen
November 2008

20. Electronic Literature Communities Seminar
University of Bergen, September 2010

24. Electronic Literature Publishing Seminar,
University of Jyväskylä, March 2011

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

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

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

34. Digital Poetics and the Present
Amsterdam, December 2011

36. Digital Textuality with/in
Performance
Bristol, May 2012

38. Significant Outputs

40. 1124
Crea)ve
Works
documented

41. 1442
ar)cles
of
Cri)cal
Wri)ng
documented

42. 1254
authors
referenced

43. Publishers,
journals,
and
organiza)ons
mapped

44. Key
conferences,
exhibi)ons,
seminars
archived

45. …even
as
they
unfold

46. Teaching
resources
made
available
on
an
open
access
basis

47. Video
and
mul)media
documenta)on
of
works
and
events
made
accessible

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

49. Archival
aKachments
such
as
full
text
pdfs
and
source
code

50. Capturing
the
emergent
vocabulary
of
a
field

51. Enabling
new
forms
of
Humani)es
research

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

53. ELMCIP
Anthology
of
European
Electronic
Literature

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

55. Also
including
video
lectures
and
pedagogical
materials

57. SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS
§ 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.

58. ELMCIP FINAL REPORT: JUNE 2013
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.

59. ELMCIP IMPACTS
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.