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1. Workshop for the International Collaborative Development of a Glossary of Literary Terms For Digital Environments

   A five day (6-12 December 2010) workshop in Sydney to develop a set of methodological principles and practical procedures, including future funding applications, for the international collaborative development of a Glossary of Literary Terms For Digital Environments. Participants included Anna Gibbs, Maria Angel (University of Western Sydney), Scott Rettberg and Jill Walker Rettberg (ELMCIP), Peter Gendolla and Jörgen Schäfer (University of Siegen/Media Upheavals Project), Joseph Tabbi, Dene Grigar, and Davin Heckman (ELO), and a number of Australian writers, authors and theorists working in the field.

   Scott Rettberg - 09.12.2010 - 04:53

2. ELMCIP E-Literature and New Media Art Seminar

   This seminar seeks to broaden the conceptual space of media-shaped electronic literature through a ground-up conceptualisation that draws inspiration from various textual practices based on an experimental account with cyber-language at the intersection of various fields and disciplines. The seminar is structured as an event of peer-reviewed theory panels, demonstrations (including artistic performances by practitioners) and individual presentations.

   A goal of the Ljubljana seminar will be to discuss the challenges posed by new media and to situate electronic literature within a history of new media. Topics that might be addressed include:

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.08.2011 - 13:17

3. The Future of Literature in an Age of Digital Media

   Michael Joyce, author and professor at Vassar College, Steve Tomasula, author and professor at University of Notre Dame, and Jay David Bolter, Ian Bogost, and Maria Engberg from Digital Media/LCC spoke about how the literary arts respond and relate to an age of digital media culture. Some of the issues included:

   • What is the function of literature in a digital culture? 
   • How does our immersion in digital practices affect our reading and appreciation of literary texts? 
   • Has literature changed in response to a new digital aesthetic?

   Maria Engberg - 13.10.2011 - 20:56

4. ELMCIP Seminar on Digital Poetics and the Present

   This seminar is one of the ELMCIP events and is organised by Yra van Dijk at the University of Amsterdam.

   In recent years, both criticism and practice of digital literature have created a theoretical basis for the approach of the new artform. Ideas have been brought forward on the historical, contextual and institutional embedding of digital literature. Critics have proposed various ways to analyze the hybrid that digital literature is and have emphasised the necessity of a ‘media-specific analysis’. Now the time has come to look closer at techniques and effects of digital literary works, and at the contemporary contexts in which they are created. Digital literature does not operate in isolation: it is in all respects a contemporary artform. The seminar focusses on this question of digital ‘poetics’, understood as the question to the nature and the value of the work, both in criticism as in practice itself.

   In addition to the scholarly presentations during the days, there are evening performance events.

   December 9

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:12

5. GVU Brown bag: Catharsis and Flow: Two Modes in Our Media Culture

   This talk is not a report on a particular project; it is an attempt to reflect on the state of our mediascape today, which is made up of both traditional media (such as film, television, and music) and new digital forms that we here in the GVU are helping to create. Today's media can be characterized by a productive tension between catharsis and flow. For example, popular film aims to provoke catharsis, an emotional release through identification with a main character, while videogames and some contemporary music aim through repetition to induce in their audience a state of engagement that the psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi has famously named “flow.”  We can think of flow and catharsis as individual, psychological reactions to our media, but they also define different strategies for media producers and designers. These two modes compete and cooperate in a variety of entertainment forms and industries, and their interaction defines our media culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. 

   Maria Engberg - 04.01.2012 - 18:06

6. ELMCIP Seminar on Digital Textuality with/in Performance

   As part of the ELMCIP research project, and under the aegis of University College Falmouth, participants in a seminar at Arnolfini, Bristol will investigate the relationship between e-literature/digital text and performance. Members of the ELMCIP project, international speakers and practitioners will discuss the function and understanding of performativity and its relationship to digital literature through a series of papers, presentations and practical engagements.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.03.2012 - 11:34