elmcip presentation hera dubrovnik
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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 had hosted key creative, theoretical and scholarly practitioners, events and communities of electronic literature – it lacked a shared research infrastructure.
ELMCIP sought 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 Open access 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
Significant Events to Develop a Network
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
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
The ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
1729 Creative Works documented
1992 articles of Critical Writing documented
1730 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
The CELL Consortium, Interoperability, and Sharing
DIVERSE Nodes, Actors, and Activities that Define a Field
A FEW “NUGGETS”: LESSONS LEARNED
BEFORE
• Established a network before applying• Team with diverse skill sets, disciplinary backgrounds, methodologies• Established branding / logotype etc. for consistent approach• Shared leadership approach and collaborative project planning• IPs that cohered but modular with few dependencies
DURING: Challenges ALONG THE WAY
• Initial staffing takes time• Different challenges with PhDs, post-docs• Need to negotiate different academic cultures and university bureaucracies• English(es)• Different budget and reporting structures for different countries• Currency exchange rate issue during time of crisis
DURING: Opportunities and surprises
• Involve more researchers than PIs, funded postdocs etc.• Events / conferences and publications to amplify and extend• Think seriously of knowledge transfer and public(s)• Follow your research – minor parts of your project might become more central, new avenues of research will open up• Think beyond your core disciplines to extend your work• Think local, national, European, and globally
AFTER: Sustainability Concerns and Future Plans
• All good projects research projects have a long tail• Digital humanities projects have particular sustainability concerns – databases are not fixed artifacts but knowledge life forms• Work with your department, university, and national funding agencies to assure that the resources you develop can continue
their trajectory, that research can continue• Empower the network and use the momentum• Celebrate the acheivements• Project leaders: afterwards, take a break
Distant Reading and Visualization
Tag cloud from ELO conference papers
Other tags appearing on works tagged hypertext
Other tags appearing on works tagged Flash
Other tags on critical writing tagged embodiment
Authorship of creative works documented in the KB
Authorship of works documented in the KB
Critical Writing references to Creative Works in the KB
All creative works in the KB, with authors and tags
All works in KB with tags (sized by degree) and year of publication
All creative and critical works presented at events in the KB
2002 ELO State of the Arts Exhibition
2008 ELO Media Arts show
ELO 2010 Critical Writing
ELO 2010 Creative Works
ELO Facebook Group Activity
http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase
Use, research, contribute, participate!