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1. 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

2. Finding a Third Space for Electronic Literature: Creative Community, Authorship, Publishing, and Institutional Environments

   The article addresses topics including creativity as a social ontology, reformulations of the idea of authorship in digital environments, the economics of electronic literature publishing, and the institutional challenges involved in developing academic environments for the teaching of digital writing.
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   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 11:17

3. The Creative Imperative

   Expanded concepts of agency permit us to question what or who can be an active participant in creative activity, allowing us to revisit the debate on authorship. We can ask whether creativity might be regarded as a form of social interaction. How might we understand creativity as the interaction of people and things rather than as an outcome of action?

   Whilst creativity is often perceived as the product of the individual artist, or creative ensemble, it can also be considered an emergent phenomenon of communities, driving change and facilitating individual or group creativity. Creativity may be regarded as a performative activity released when engaged through and by a community and thus understood as a process of interaction.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:34

4. Creative Communities: Nooks, Niches, and Networks

   Creative Communities: Nooks, Niches, and Networks

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:38

5. Can We Help Being Creative?

   People on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea take responsibility for the fertility and reproduction of land and people. Through gardening, hunting, ceremony and initiation, they are continually ‘creating’: both people/places, and the conditions for the emergence of these things as recognisably human. Engaging in the continual creation of the human world is not optional for them but intrinsic to what it means to be a human being. Creativity is necessarily distributed in such circumstances, power over creation or destruction oscillates, but to be a person means participation. As such, the emergence of persons or things, as objects of contemplation, or exchange, or value and beauty, are achieved momentarily as elements of the wider process of which they are part and through which they have meaning.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:41

6. Electronic Authorship, Collaboration, Community, and Practice

   Community has been a central focus of my career in the field of electronic literature, particularly in helping to shape and structure the Electronic Literature Organization, a USA-based nonprofit organization central to the field, and more recently as project leader of ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation and Practice. I consider practical research and artistic community development vital to the creation of a persistent environment that enables network-based creative communities. When creative communities and research communties are not geographically co-located, institutional identities, online publications, directories, and knowledge bases, and in-person conferences, festivals, and events provide for a kind of floating agora that enables creative community to thrive across borders.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:45

7. Third Hand Plays: “Struts” by J. R. Carpenter

   A profile of the prolific e-lit author J. R. Carpenter focusing on the geosocial dimension of her works before introducing "Struts," a piece about her residency at an art gallery and media center.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.10.2011 - 09:14