ELMCIP Conference on Remediating the Social

The Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) research project invited scholars, artists, researchers and performers to its final conference and exhibition. The event, running from Nov. 1-3, 2012, was hosted by Edinburgh College of Art in collaboration with New Media Scotland and University College Falmouth within the framework of the ELMCIP research project. The event was held at Inspace, a purpose-built research and exhibition facility at the University of Edinburgh, fully instrumented to facilitate engagement with developments in new technologies, scientific research and creative practice.

Critical writing presented:

Title	Author	Tags
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10	Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Mark Sample, Noah Vawter, Casey Reas, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell	code, randomness, BASIC, c64, commodore 64, generative
A Response to Nick Montfort's "Programming for Fun, Together"	Scott Rettberg	response, constraints, collaboration, social, programming, hacking
A Response to Roberto Simanowski's "The Compelling Charm of Numbers"	Friedrich W. Block
Authorial Scholarship 2.0: Tracing the Creative Process in Online Communities	Leonardo L. Flores	media ecology, affordances, online communities, creative process
Bootstrapping Electronic Literature: An Introduction to the ELMCIP Project	Scott Rettberg	introduction, ELMCIP
Coincidentally the Screen has Turned to Ink: Electronic Literature for Library Spaces	Søren Bro Pold
Constructs of the Interactive Documentary Image in Inside/Outside, The Unknown Territories Project, and Estuary	Roderick Coover	documentary, narrative, layering, photography, film, space
Creativity as a Social Relation?	James Leach	creativity, agency, community, groups, anthropology, social relations
Derivative Writing: E-literature in the World of New Social and Economic Paradigms	Janez Strehovec
DIWO: Do It With Others – No Ecology without Social Ecology	Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett
ELMCIP Research Project Goals, Results, and Impact -- Presentation for the Remediating the Social Conference	Scott Rettberg	elmcip conference outputs hera project
Embodied Algorithms: On Space and Mobility as Structural Metaphors	Romy Achituv	embodied, algorithm, models, strucutral metaphors, installations, data visualization, embodiment
Evaluating Digital Literature: Social Networks, Selection Processes and Criteria	Alexandra Saemmer	selection, canonization, editorial process, evaluation criteria
Invisible Participation: Language and the Internet	Daniel C. Howe, John Cayley, Jason Huff, Mimi Cabell	language, participation, text-mining, Google, crowdsourcing, bots, machine reading
Locating the Creativity in the Interactive Fiction Community	Yra van Dijk
Of People Not Machines: Authorship, Copyright and the Computer Programmer	Elena Cooper	authorship, copyright, computer programmer, digital art, creative practice
Open Source Cure	Salvatore Iaconesi
Out of Place: Digital In-Grouping	Donna Leishman
Palimpsest	Amy Guy	locative literature, locative, mapping, literary walk, mobile, Edinburgh
Players Only Love You When They’re Playin': Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics	Chris Funkhouser, Andrew Klobucar	computation, poetry generation
Presentation of the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature (Rap version)	Maria Engberg, Talan Memmott
Programming for Fun, Together	Nick Montfort	programming, demoscene, history and criticism, computational platforms, creative computing
R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX - an artist's presentation	Christine Wilks, Randy Adams, Chris Joseph
Re-reading the Digital: An Inquiry Through Practice	Penny Florence	digital reading, subject, subjectivity
Re:Mix	Mark Amerika
Remediating English Pedagogy: Nurturing Immersive, Complex and Creative Literary Experiences for Students in Contemporary Times	Angela A. Thomas
Remediating the Social		conference proceedings, ELMCIP
Remediating the Social introduction	Simon Biggs
Rendezvous: A Collaboration Between Art, Research and Communities	Cécile Chevalier
Rhizomes, Lines and Nomads: Doing Fieldwork with Creative Networked Communities	Penny Travlou	ethnography, transnational, transcultural, creative community, distributed
Sauti ya wakulima: "The Voice of the Farmers": The creation of a community memory through appropriated media	Eugenio Tisselli	agriculture, activism, collaboration, climate change, collective narrative, environment, knowledge sharing, Tanzania
Spatial Remediations	Roderick Coover	interactive documentary, spatiality, remediation
Stringing Disturbances in Poetic Array Spaces: Reading by Close Reading	Loss Pequeño Glazier
The Artist, the Database, and the Project of the University	John Cayley	database, knowledge, university, publication, participation, institutionalization, cloud
The Compelling Charm of Numbers: Writing for and thru the Network of Data	Roberto Simanowski	facebook, diaries, personal, narrative, non-fiction, representation, quantified self
The Digital Manual	Smita Kheria	collaboration, case studies, digital manual, knowledge sharing
The New Gamified Social	Daphne Dragona	attention economy, social media, game-space, gamify
Thinking in Networks: Western/non-Western Interaction	Yvonne Spielmann	installations, media art, Japan, intervention
Upstage	Helen Varley Jamieson	collaboration, performance, networked community
Where is E-Lit in Rulinet?	Natalia Fedorova	Russia, Runet, Rulinet

Works presented:

Work title	Author
A crissxross trail < R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX: one remix player's scenic route through remixworx	Christine Wilks
Absurd in Public	Aya Natalia Karpinska
B A C K L I T	Cris Cheek
Baby Work	Shu Lea Cheang
Borderline	Donna Leishman
Common Tongues	John Cayley, Daniel C. Howe
Duel	Kate Pullinger, Andy Campbell
exquisite_code	Brendan Howell
Hapax Phenomenon	John Cayley, Clement Valla
How It Is in Common Tongues	Common Tongues
Huis Clos / No Exit	Annie Abrahams
Natural History	Johannes Heldén
Re:Mix	Mark Amerika
Search Lutz!	Johannes Auer
Search Trilogy	Johannes Auer, Beat Suter, René Bauer
Searchsonata 181	Johannes Auer, Beat Suter, René Bauer
Small Uncomfortable Reading Poems	Philippe Bootz
Textual Skyline	Jason Nelson
The Broadside of a Yarn	J. R. Carpenter
The Final Problem	Judd Morrissey

Writing about this event:

Title	Author	Publisher
"How It Is in Common Tongues": an interview with John Cayley and Daniel Howe	Scott Rettberg, John Cayley, Daniel C. Howe
"The Final Problem": An Interview with Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrissey	Scott Rettberg, Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey
ELMCIP Remediating the Social: Documentary (12 minute version)	Richard Ashrowan
ELMCIP Remediating the Social: Documentary (5 minute version)	Richard Ashrowan
In the Event of a Variable Text	J. R. Carpenter	Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Networks of Creativity: Electronic Literature Communities	Scott Rettberg, Patricia Tomaszek	Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University
Performing Assemblages of Collective Enunciation in 'The Broadside of a Yarn'	J. R. Carpenter
Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography	Illya Szilak	Huffington Post
The Broadside of a Yarn: A Situationist Strategy for Spinning Sea Stories Ashore	J. R. Carpenter	Performance Research
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Exhibition Catalogue	Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg
The Print Map as a ‘literary platform’	J. R. Carpenter	The Literary Platform
Walks from City Bus Routes: A Circuitous Route	J. R. Carpenter	The Writing Platform
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks	J. R. Carpenter