Thanks to everyone who helped us make the workshop a splendid event!
For more information on presentations, please see the knowledge base: http://elmcip.net
We will also post several videos from the event in the coming weeks: see our VIMEO account (http://vimeo.com/elmcip) and the ELMCIP website.
BTH HOSTED ELMCIP WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC LITERATURE & PEDAGOGY
The workshop will examine the educational models of the study and practice of electronic literature that exist in Europe. Such programs and courses exist in a diverse range of disciplinary contexts and are therefore informed by different theoretical and practical traditions. During the workshop we will map the educational models in practice in Europe today and work towards building upon shared experiences and knowledge in order to further develop educational models and policies for European higher education.
We have invited active educators and researchers in the field of electronic literature and relevant fields from Europe and beyond to discuss models of practice, pedagogy and critical inquiry. The critical mass of a Pan-European group will allow for reflections on how educational models can inform the formation of creative communities and help to sustain them.
Organizers at BTH are: Maria Engberg, PI; Talan Memmott, Co-PI; David Prater, Postdoctoral researcher
The workshop is generously supported by Karlskrona kommun's Öppna Sinnet grant, HERA, European Commission 7th framework programme, and BTH.
For more information, please contact Maria Engberg (meg @ bth.se)
The presenters at the karlskrona workshop were:
Wednesday June 15
Kate Pullinger, De Montfort University (UK)
Inanimate Alice: a Pedagogical Community
Serge Bouchardon, Université de Technologie de Compiègne (FR)
Teaching digital writing through digital literature - Case studies in Schools, Universities and Digital Public Spaces
Erling Björgvinsson, Malmö Högskola (SE)Poetic mediation across practices and institutions: Sailing with Pequod together with poets and interaction designers
Søren Pold, Aarhus Universitet (DK)
Electronic Literature as Interface Criticism
Jörgen Schäfer, Universität Siegen (DE)
In Search of Sustainability: Institutional and Curricular Limitations of Teaching Electronic Literature
Philippe Bootz, Université de Paris 8 (FR)
María Mencía, Kingston University (UK)
"Cityscapes: Thinking Through Practice"
Carolyn Guertin, University of Texas at Arlington (US)
"Seeing Story and Mapping Narrative
Renee Turner, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam University (NL)
Feral Disciplines & Hybrid Codes
Program discussion panel:
Scott Rettberg, Universitetet i Bergen (NO)
Jörgen Schäfer, Universität Siegen (DE)
Jerome Fletcher, University College Falmouth (UK)
Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (SE)
Thursday, June 16
Jay David Bolter, BTH (SE) & Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Digital Culture and the End of the University
Roundtable discussions led by Talan Memmott:
Carolyn Guertin
Lissa Holloway-Attaway
María Mencía
Renee Turner
Roundtable discussions led by Maria Engberg:
Jerome Fletcher
Sören Pold
Erling Björgvinsson
Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago (US)
HERA funds project on Creativity in Electronic Literature
BTH researchers are part of a major European project exploring the emerging field of electronic literature as a networked, creative community. University of Bergen leads the project. Maria Engberg is Principal Investigator and Talan Memmott is Co-Investigator, both from the group for Culture & Communication at the School of Planning and Media Design. BTH's share of the project budget, pending ESF approval, is 214,600 Euros.
The project Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice has been recommended for funding, pending final contract negotiations with the European Science Foundation to be completed in January 2010. Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a 3-year collaborative research project which will run from 2010-2013. The project will be funded under Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) joint research project theme: Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation. (http://www.heranet.info/) The budget for the project as a whole will be just under one million Euros.
ELMCIP involves seven European academic research partners and one non-academic partner. The aim is to investigate how creative communities of practitioners form within a transnational and transcultural context in a globalized and distributed communication environment. 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 to gain insight into the social affects and manifestations of creativity as an engine for innovation.
The partners include: The University of Bergen, Norway (Project Leader Scott Rettberg, Co-I Jill Walker Rettberg), the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (PI Simon Biggs, Co-I Penny Travlou), The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (PI Yra Van Dijk), The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (PI Janez Strehovec), The University of Jyväskylä, Finland (PI Raine Koskimaa), and University College Falmouth at Dartington, England (PI Jerome Fletcher), New Media Scotland, and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden (PI Maria Engberg, Co-I Talan Memmott).
The project will fund three post-docs and one PhD. BTH will host a 12-month post-doc focused on electronic literature publication and education. Among the other positions that will be advertised are a 20-month post-doc in electronic literature bibliography at the University of Bergen, and a three year PhD in electronic literature and design at the Edinburgh College of Art. The project also funds a three-year post-doc in ethnography of digital culture at the Edinburgh College of Art.
The research outcomes of the project will include: a series of case studies and research papers on electronic literature, a series of public seminars on electronic literature in different cultural contexts, the production of an extensive online knowledge base including papers and presentations from the seminars, project information and bibliographic records of works of electronic literature, a major international conference, a public exhibition of electronic literature artworks and performances. BTHs main contributions will be a workshop on electronic literature and education and a companion anthology of electronic literature including pedagogical materials. All publications resulting from the project, including conference proceedings, exhibition catalog, project documentation and the DVD anthology, will be made available on the project website.
For more information about ELMCIP, please contact PI Maria Engberg, maria.engberg@bth.se, 0455-385367 or Co-I Talan Memmott, talan.memmott@bth.se, 0455-385322, or consult the website: http://www.elmcip.net
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For all projects funded under the HERA 2009 call, see: http://www.heranet.info/Default.aspx?ID=356
