Bergen SeminarSept 20-21, 2010

Dr. Yra van DijkUniversity of Amsterdam

ELMCIPElectronic Literature as a Model of

Creativity and Innovation in Practice

ELMCIPElectronic Literature as a Model of

Creativity and Innovation in Practice

How do different forms of community, based on local,

national, language group, shared cultural practices and

interest in particular literary and artistic genres, form and are

sustained, particularly electronic literature communities?

ELMCIPElectronic Literature as a Model of

Creativity and Innovation in Practice

Electronic Literature Community:

www.digidicht.nl

Example of an attempt to create a community from institutions:

DigidichtIntroduction Construction and FundingCollaboratorsE-Works

And further…De Waag SocietyMedia Art PlatformMediamatic

 Conclusion

Index

1.1 General Information www.digidicht.nl

Dutch Virtual Platform for Electronic Literature

Dutch Literature Fund (DLF)

Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (FVADA)

1. Introduction

Poetry on the Screen

Poetry International

Waag Society

1. Introduction

1.2 Related Projects

= full-grown harvest/works

= beans/concepts

2. Construction and Funding

2.1 Public and Interactive Space www.digidicht.nl

2. Construction and Funding

2.2 Public Space: the full-grown harvest/works

52 finished works

31 through Poetry on the Screen

20 through Workshops

1 through www.digidicht.nl

2. Construction and Funding

2.3 Interactive Space: the beans/concepts

27 initiatives ....

1 initiative ‘Kijk hier ligt ze’

1 digi-work Virtual platform...?

2. Construction and Funding

2.4 Funding

-2500 euro per author and 2500 euro for the designer per work

Dutch Literature Fund (DLF): 50%

Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (FVADA): 50%

-aditionally: individual projects for literary authors: 4000 to 25.0000

Question: -Objectivity of the researcher? (Biggs and Travlou 2010)

3. Collaborators

3.1 Applicants

100 accounts

79 concepts

52 works

Community or gathering of couples?

3. Collaborators

3.2 The Jury

Controlled application procedure

No selection or ballot commission

Guarantee of minimal professionalism

Stands in the way of spontanuous interaction

3. Collaborators

3.3 The Forum

12 topics

8 instructions

3 links

1 introduction

3. Collaborators

3.4 The Visitors

visitors0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

5735

20082009

4.1. Quantity

makers ideas online works

works*0

20

40

60

80

100

120

100

27

52

1

200820092010

* works made through digidicht.nl

4. E-Works

4. E-Works

4.2 Genres

2 x Hypertext Fiction

5 x Interactive Fiction

3 x Generative Art

2 x Code Work

42 x Flash Poems

5. Conclusion

How does the electronic literature community of digidicht.nl

(which is based on shared cultural practices and interest in

particular e-literature) form and sustain?

Is digidicht.nl a community or a depot for e-works?

How do we deal with the ethical problem of the immersion of the

researcher in the field she is supposed to investigate?

6. Waag society

-Partly government funded: http://www.waag.org/, but numerous other partners.

-both a website, blog and a physical location

-Culture but also: society, education, healthcare and sustainability.

-interdisciplinary medialab

-Origin: DDS.

Media Art Platform

http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/

-A social networking website for media art professionals and enthusiasts: for artists, developers, technicians, curators, researchers, lecturers, students

-Funding: Netherlands Media Art Institute and the Mondriaan Foundation.

-Blogs on: graphics&animation, Audio, GPS/ Locative Technology, Hardware, Internet and networking, and video post-production. Howver: hardly any posts.

-157 members. -blogs seem to be filled by one person only

Mediamaticwww.mediamatic.net

-New Media, Art, Society, since 1985. Founded as meeting place for new media artists-Both a website as a physical location in Amsterdam-Exhibitions, presentations, workshops and much more. ‘ This site freely mixes news, theory and people’. -5556 users

-active intention to operate as a network: even a dating center. Bv: mediamatic travel.

-Atelier: Mediamatic Atelier is a facility where we research and develop different types of soft-and hardware and (interactive) installations like the IkCam.

Funding: 220.000 euro annually.

Biography

• Biggs, Simon and Penny Travlou. ‘Distributed authorship and

creative communities’. 2010

• Hayles, Katherine. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the

Literary. Indiana 2010

• Websites: www.digidicht.nl

www.fondsvoordeletteren.nl

www.fondsbkvb.nl

www.poetry.nl

www.waag.org