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German Net Literature: In the Exile of Invisibility
German net literature had an early and very public start through competitions organized in 1996-8 by the major newspaper Die Zeit and IBM, but was declared dead or stillborn immediately afterwards. Consequently, net literature became a subject of controversy between artists, theorists, and literary critics from which not only a strong community evolved but also a literary system. In this system, competitions served as public, peer-reviewed mediators for net literature and became an important feature of “post-processing.” Since the end of the 90s however, German net literature became slowly invisible. The lack of public awareness of net literature is common to many countries. Post-processing is a key for public visibility and according to Siegfried J. Schmidt et al. an important component in a literary system. In search of reasons for the state of invisibility of German net literature, I analyze mechanisms of post-processing in our community, which I regard as a literary system. This descriptive synopsis is the first paper in an upcoming series that opens up questions towards the role of peer-review, public reception, and artists' community-building.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:15
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The ELMCIP Knowledge Base and the Formation of an International Field of Literary Scholarship and Practice
The paper provides an introduction to the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) collaborative research project ELMCIP: Developing a network-based creative community: Electronic Literature as a model of creativity and innovation in practice, and in particular details the Knowledge Base component of the project. The Knowledge Base is a new platform for developing and sharing bibliographic records about works, critical writing, events, publishers, organizations, and authors in the field of electronic literature, with a particular emphasis on the European context. The paper further introduces the collaborative activity of CELL: an international Consortium for Electronic Literature organized by the Electronic Literature Organization.
Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2011 - 20:04
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Scholarly Publishing of Hypertext, the Case of "The Victorian Web"
George Landow discussed the development of The Victorian Web, an online resource hosted by Brown University, for the study of Victorian literature, and its relation to his scholarship on hypertext.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.03.2011 - 11:50
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Electronic Literature Publishing and Distribution in Europe
A preliminary presentation of Publishing E-Lit in Europe, a report detailing efforts to systematically survey and analyze the publication of electronic literature within Europe. Due to the immensity of their investigation and the limitations on what two researchers could achieve in three months' time, the authors emphasized that their report was a work in progress: at this point, they had been able to collect primary data about the publications, portals, collections, contests and other forums that supported the creation and distribution of electronic literature in Europe. The revised version of the report would feature more content analysis - of the type of material published and trends that distinguished various e-lit communities writing within specific linguistic and cultural traditions.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.04.2011 - 11:37
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The Vinaròs Prize for Electronic Literature
A report on the history of the Vinaròs Prize for Electronic Literature that provides an overview of the award-winning works, explains how the winning works were selected, and discusses how a small town in eastern Spain decided to host an international literary competition.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.04.2011 - 11:53
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Editing the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two
A report on the issues and challenges, both conceptual and technical, the four-member editorial team (Laura Borràs, Talan Memmott, Rita Rayley, and Brian Kim Stefans) faced when assembling a collection of sixty works of electronic literature that aspired to be representative of a diverse, international field of literary practice.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.04.2011 - 12:20
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Introducing Literature Across Frontiers
An overview of the literary nonprofit organization Literature Across Frontiers.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.04.2011 - 13:48
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Cross-Referenced E-Lit and Scholarship: The ELMCIP Knowledge Base
The ELMCIP-Knowledge Base (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice) provides researchers, students, and a general audience of electronic literature new ways of accessing existing scholarship in the field. With a special focus on cross-references, the relational database documents the field of research and creative practice in electronic literature. While focusing on the display of social entities and geographical roots, connections between actors and works in the communities field become visible. The strength of the database lies in the variety and cross-referenced nature of record types that feed the database: author, creative work, critical writing, event, organization, publisher, and teaching resources are being documented and referenced. In this talk, I will present suggestions how to integrate the ELMCIP-Knowledge Base into regular writing, research, and teaching practices.
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:25
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The Genealogy of a Creative Community: Why is Afternoon the "Grandaddy" of Hypertext Fiction?
Michael Joyce’s hypertext fiction afternoon, a story was first publicly presented in 1987, and is generally known as the “granddaddy” of electronic literature (Coover, 1992). It has been anthologised by Norton, is substantially analysed and discussed in dozens of academic treatises and is taught or at least mentioned in almost every course taught on electronic literature. But afternoon is not the first work of electronic literature. Why did this particular work become the progenitor of a community of writers, a common reference point for scholars and students for the next 25 years? There were alternative possibilities. (The case has already been made that interactive fiction is equally a form of electronic literature - but IF is a distinct genre with a distinct community.) Why didn’t bp Nichols’ work “First Screening: Computer Poems” (1984) start a movement? Why are there no cricital discussions of Judy Malloy’s database narrative “Uncle Roger”, published on the WELL in 1986/97? This brief paper will question the role of the mythical progenitor in the creation of a creative communtiy. Why do we tend to imagine a father or “granddaddy” of a field?
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:48
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Making Connections Visible: Building a Knowledge Base for Electronic Literature
Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. Focusing on the electronic literature community in Europe as a model of networked creativity and innovation in practice, ELMCIP is intended both to study the formation and interactions of that community and also to further electronic literature research and practice in Europe. The ELMCIP Knowledge Base is a publicly accessible online database that focuses on capturing core bibliographic data and archival materials about authors, creative works, critical writing, events, organizations, publishers, and teaching resources and on making visible the connections between creative and scholarly activities in the field.
This presentation will focus on three aspects of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base in particular:
1) Cross-referencing to make visible the emergence of creative and scholarly communities of practice
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 15:42
