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NT2 - The Canadian Directory of Electronic Literatureshttp://nt2.uqam.ca/Universit du Qubec Montral, with an extension into Concordia University inMontreal in Canada

Director: Bertrand Gervais, [email protected]

Other members:Carl AksynczakSamuel ArchibaldSylvain AubeFrederic BeaudetSimon BrousseauIsabelle Caron

Jean-Francois ChasseySandrine GalandGabriel GaudetteJoelle GauthierJoanne LalondeMathieu MundvillerDaniel VeniotRobin Varenas

The Lab acts as both an indicator and a source of information for hypermedia artists and

writers. It actively encourages the development and study of emerging forms ofliterature and art in a number of ways. These include helping artists publish their work,offering courses and seminars to graduate students, publishing research essays on thesubject, and involvement in national and international festivals. In all these ways, NT2promotes hypermedia art and literature in Canada and around the world, and plays anactive part in the open culture movement.

Previous achievements: published research; conducted seminars;

created more than a dozen database Websites for various research projects; published an annual magazine of French hypermedia works.

Future goals: TBD
mailto:[email protected]://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnt2.uqam.ca%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHSJ8hQwpJdjRfJ0K3qR7ivVfanxwmailto:[email protected]://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnt2.uqam.ca%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHSJ8hQwpJdjRfJ0K3qR7ivVfanxw


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PO.EX - PO.EX'70-80 - Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literaturehttp://www.po-ex.net or http://poex.ufp.pt (Digital Archive of the PO.EX)Universidade Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal.

Director: Rui Torres, [email protected]

Other members:Eduardo Paz BarrosoMaria do Carmo Castelo BrancoAna C. MoutinhoManuel PortelaPedro ReisDbora Cristina Santos e SilvaElsa Simes

Jos Manuel Torres

The project "PO.EX'70-80 - Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature"(reference PTDC/CLE-LLI/098270/2008) is currently funded by the Fundao para aCincia e a Tecnologia, Portugal, and the European Union (programsPOCI2010/FEDER). It is a continuation of a previous project entitled PortugueseExperimental Poetry - a CD-ROM of Dossiers and Catalogs, which studied Portugueseliterary experimentalism of the 1960s and created a digital archive with the mostrelevant magazines, catalogs, and publications of that group of poets. The new projectdevelops the previous studies and collections to include visual and sound poetry,

video-poetry, happenings, and cybernetic literature all of which can be seen asextensions and renovations of literary experimentalism of the previously analyzedperiod. Our goal was, and will be, to continue considering a connection between concretepoetics and digital poetics. Characterized by its openness and free access to resources,these projects intend to preserve an important literary legacy.

Within the scope of this project, we have also created a Laboratory of Digital Writing,coordinated and supervised by team members. In this Laboratory we expect to offeradequate technical conditions for the development of artistic residences of poets andwriters with an interest in multimedia and hypermedia digital platforms. In this way, we

hope to foster the development of internal networks of production and digital literarycreativity, and document and extend the process and its results, by means of an onlinepublication platform.
mailto:[email protected]://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpoex.ufp.pt%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHDnn4Ry2BGWl6fHBQhxxKITTrmPQhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpoex.ufp.pt%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHDnn4Ry2BGWl6fHBQhxxKITTrmPQhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.po-ex.net%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHKtW5QSLv4_e6JzLECulxSclxTJg


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Past achievements: organized performances of poetry readings; created re-readings of poetry; hosted many different conferences; compiled and distributed a PO.EX CD-ROM;

published a variety of articles about e-lit.

Future goals: improving the database, its structure and contents, adding more collections and

new items; participating in CELL's activities related with interoperability; applying to new funding for exhibiting the database; artists' books collections; adding to the Digital Archive, currently with 4,500 items.


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ELD - Electronic Literature Directoryhttp://directory.eliterature.orgMIT Cambridge, Massachusetts

Director: Joseph Tabbi,[email protected]

Other members:Kent AardseEwan BrandaDavin Heckman

The Electronic Literature Directory is a project of the Electronic Literature Organization(ELO), a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote andfacilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. The earlier

directory (version 1.0, in place from 2000-2009), was conceived of as a wiki-basedproject. In 2010, the availability of the new ELD was announced, version 2.0,supplementing user-generated content with a refined editorial process. Both arepository of metadata about and a critical companion to e-literature, the ELD hostsdiscussions that are capable of being referenced and revised over years of use. In thisrespect, the directory offers a needed counter to the tendency for writing in new mediato disappear days, if not moments, after being posted. As the field continues to developand worthy database projects emerge to document the variety of communities, forms,and approaches under development, the ELD has entered into the CELL collaboration tocultivate standards, secure records, share data, and serve a specific editorial function

within the larger ecology of literary arts database projects.

Past achievements: redesigned the ELD for the Drupal platform; completed and implemented the visual design of the directory; implemented a metadata standard for the ELD; formalized editorial procedures; publicly launched the redesigned site; seeded and edited the ELD with the aid of established humanities scholars.

Future goals: assembling a team of librarians, researchers, and educators to explore

bibliographic and software standards; addressing appropriate methods for describing, archiving, and sharing works

within a networked environment; defining protocols for the sharing of information, and designing a crossplatform

query and tagging system.
mailto:[email protected]://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdirectory.eliterature.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGxV27TT2F7mcyXOOcGi1ZGQcQE8Q


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ebr - Electronic Book Reviewhttp://www.electronicbookreview.com/University of Illinois, Chicago and West Virginia University

Director:Joseph Tabbi,[email protected]

Other members:Sandy BaldwinEwan BrandaDavin HeckmanEric Dean Rasmussen

Combining elements of graphic design, database programming, and scholarly editing,TheElectronic Book Review (ebr) participates in the media developments it critiques. A

peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digitalliterary network, ebrhas been in continuous publication since 1994. Content is notpresented under one fixed category, but can be gathered under various threadsdepending on how each essay is tagged. These threads are not like "special issues" inprint; rather, the work developed by the editors is capable of running years past thelaunch date, as new editors take over and the field itself develops. By reviewingborn-digital writing on regular basis, ebrwill help draw attention to the works that willfind their way into the consortium of literary databases under construction in CELL.

Past achievements:

developed threads including Electropoetics, Image + Narrative, Critical Ecologies,Fictions Present, Writing Under Constraint, and First, Second, and Third Person(originally co-published byebrand MIT Press in 2003);

received editorial, programming, and financial support from a variety ofinstitutions;

hosted in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and atthe Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University since 2011;

launched its latest version 5.0 using the Drupal Content Management Systemin 2012.

Future goals: incorporating links that run "Inbound" (to other essays on the site) and

"Outbound" (essays off the site); enabling readers to add glosses to published articles; recognizing the consortium of databases will be the critical environment within

which ebr's critique of born-digital writing will operate.
mailto:[email protected]://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.electronicbookreview.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE1dHxUUKPh9IbwHbtQaLDSixb7tw


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Hermeneia - The Literary Studies and Digital Technologies Research Groupwww.hermeneia.netHermeneia Research Group Group Consolidat (Generalitat de Catalonya, since 2009)Departament de Filologia Romnica Universitat de Barcelona

Giovanna di Rosario?Laura Borras?Isaas Herrerongela CelisValentina Vannimartini

Hermeneia research group was created in 1999. In 2001, Hermeneia received publicrecognition and its first funding from the Generalitat de Catalunya which in 2009 wouldrecognize Hermeneia as a consolidated research group. It is composed of 24 researchers

from European and American universities. Since its inception, Hermeneia has embracedthe participation of international researchers in a project that requires the exchange ofideas and dialogue among researchers from different academic fields and with aninternational perspective. One of the most outstanding qualities of this internationalresearch group is its ability to establish a rich dialogue with different perspectives ondigital literature as a revolutionary and changing phenomenon.As Hermeneia has advanced in its scholarly development, new renowned researcherskey to the areas of research of this group have been incorporated. At the same time,Hermeneia has also expanded its cultural projects, initiatives, educational networks andcollaborators, thus making possible a wide range of relationships that result in a

polyhedric and multidisciplinary vision of the objects of research. A section devoted toItalian language will soon be open (the Hermeneia website is multilingual). Our aim is tobe able to create interest in electronic literature also in non-English-speaking countries.

Past achievements: constructed a community of young researchers who are developing the field by

translating works of e-lit; created a strong presence in conferences where digital literature appears as the

main subject; translated works by Rui Torres and Deena Larson into Catalan;

translated Serge Bouchardons texts Dprise and Opacit from French intoItalian;

established the international Ciutat de Vinars prize to promote digital literaturein multiple language and traditions.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hermeneia.net&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEBTRJwnBgDWAGDZLP0wFKyCfMNkA


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Future goals: continuing to study the interaction between literature and new media; co-organizing an exhibition of Electronic Literature to be held in Naples; co-editing the first Italian e-book on electronic literature; promoting interchange between the areas of creation, teaching, and research.


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LIKUMED - LIteratur KUnst und neue MEDienhttp://www.litnet.uni-siegen.deUniversity of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

Director: Peter Gendolla, [email protected]

Other members:Jrgen SchferPatricia Tomaszek

This research project aims at analyzing the ongoing changes of literary communication inprogrammable and networked media, particularly on the Internet. It is still highlycontroversial if such networks are only providing a new so-called digital archive forall forms of literary texts or if new literary forms are emerging whose aesthetic qualities

can only be realised in this medium.

Therefore we heuristically differentiate between literature on the net i.e. texts whichhave only been transferred from their original storage devices such as books ormanuscripts to computer servers and innovative forms of net literature. The maincategories of previous approaches such as digitalisation, collaborative working orinteractivity may be used for describing all sorts of men-machine-communication incomputer networks. We, however, regard the semiotic difference between strings andnets of signifiers as the foundation of a theory of net literature which calls basicconcepts such as author, work and reader into question. In this context, we regard

net literature as a test case for media upheavals and social change in the broadersense.

Past achievements: organized two international conferences: "Netzliteratur: Umbrche in der

literarischen Kommunikation" (2004) and "Beyond the Screen. Transformationsof Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres" (2008);

published three books in English language: "Beyond the Screen: Transformationsof Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres" (2010), "Reading Moving Letters:Digital Literature in Research and Teaching" (2010), "The Aesthetics of Net

Literature: Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media" (2007); initiated research projects on electronic literature funded by German Research; Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; co-edited the book series "International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics"
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Future goals: establishing new research institute or research group "Literature in Electronic

Media" (LEM); gaining funding for "Archive of German Electronic Literature"; publishing a monograph on electronic literature (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich);

continuing activities in CELL and "DDDL: European Network of DigitalLiterature", e.g. "Erasmus Intensive Programme."


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ELMCIP - Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practicehttp://elmcip.net/knowledgebase

University of Bergen, Norway

Director: Scott Rettberg, [email protected]

Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is acollaborative research project funded by Humanities in the European Research Area(HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. ELMCIP involves seven European academicresearch partners and one non-academic partner who are investigating how creativecommunities of practitioners form within a transnational and transcultural context in aglobalized and distributed communication environment. Focusing on the electronicliterature community in Europe as a model of networked creativity and innovation inpractice, ELMCIP is intended both to study the formation and interactions of thatcommunity and to further electronic literature research and practice in Europe. TheUniversity of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group at the Universtiy of Bergenis the lead partner in the ELMCIP project and has been responsible for the developmentof the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. **It provides cross-referenced, contextualizedinformation about authors, creative works, critical writing, and practices. To date theKnowledge Base includes more than 7.000 cross-referenced records and is frequentlyused in teaching and research contexts for electronic literature internationally**

Past achievements:

Successfully acquired and administered the largest grant awarded in the historyof electronic literature for a three-year research project; Produced six international seminars focused on different aspects of electronic

literature and one major conference and exhibition across Europe over the courseof a three-year period;

Published an anthology of European electronic literature online and on USB; Responsible for five special issues of journal; Developed a research resource for electronic literature.

Future goals: Continuing to develop, refine, and edit the ELMCIP Electronic Literature

Knowledge Base; Developing macroanalytic and visualization-based research using the Knowledge

Base; Producing the 2015 Electronic Literature Organization conference and exhibition.
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