Project Tag: electronic literature (page 1 of 1)

19 November 2012

ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature (2012)

In 2011, I moved to Karlskrona in Blekinge, Sweden, to take up a 12-month  post-doctoral researcher position with the ELMCIP project team based at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH).

ELMCIP stands for Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, a 3-year collaborative research project which ran from 2010 to 2013, funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation.

ELMCIP involved seven European academic research partners and one non-academic partner who investigated how creative communities of practitioners form within a transnational and transcultural context in a globalized and distributed communication environment.

A screenshot from the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature homepage.

Focusing on the electronic literature community in Europe as a model of networked creativity and innovation in practice, ELMCIP studied the formation and interactions of that community and also helped further electronic literature research and practice in Europe.

The ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature was an output from the ELMCIP researchers based at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Sweden, namely Maria Engberg, Talan Memmott and myself.

The anthology is intended to provide educators, students and the general public with a free curricular resource of electronic literary works produced in Europe. It consists of hypertext works, video art, pedagogical materials on electronic literature and references.

ELMCIP also includes an online Knowledge Base mapping the ongoing field of electronic literature. 

You can view the anthology online. A special, limited edition USB-stick version was also produced.

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15 February 2012

Cordite Poetry Review (2001–12)

Cordite Poetry Review was established in 1997, and is Australia’s premier Internet poetry journal, with a reputation for publishing experimental and innovative works by both established and emerging Australian poets. Cordite initially received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, the federal government’s peak arts funding body, and boasts a large and varied readership.

Cordite was founded by Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter in 1997. It began as a broadsheet, with six full issues of the journal published in print. I was Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review between 2001 and 2012. During that time, I produced 30 full issues of the magazine, plus 10 mini-issues, in an online format.

My appointment as Managing Editor coincided with a decision to switch to an online format. The first online issues featured hand-coded HTML pages. Later iterations made use of Movable Type and, briefly, Blogger. Since 2005, Cordite has been produced using WordPress.

In 2012 I stepped down from the Managing Editor position, handing over the reins to Kent MacCarter.

Cordite Poetry Review has been indexed and archived by the National Library of Australia’s Pandora Project.

Below is a list of links (in progress) to issues I produced as Managing Editor.

Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)
2 February 2012

Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)

I met Kwame Dawes, the editor of Lincoln, Nebraska-based journal Prairie Schooner, at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2011. Following the festival, Kwame invited me, as the editor of Cordite Poetry Review, to collaborate on a joint issue, to be published online.

Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)

Our collaboration became the first of what would become known as Fusion, a new online series features collaborations between Prairie Schooner and interesting, innovative online literary entities from around the world that seek to create dynamic fusions in literature and art.

A detail from 'Army of Mirriams', by Michelle Ussher.
A detail from ‘Army of Mirriams’, by Michelle Ussher.

The Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion, with the theme of ‘Work’, featured poems from Cordite Poetry Review by Tom Clark, Lorin Ford, Derek Motion, Brendan Ryan, Adrian Wiggins, Jennifer Compton, Ivy Alvarez, Barbara De Franceschi, Liam Ferney, Peter Coghill, M. F. McAuliffe, Benito Di Fonzo, Esther Johnson, Geoff Page, Emily Stewart and Margaret Owen Ruckert, plus audio poems by Sean M. Whelan & the Interim Lovers, Maxine Beneba Clarke, komninos zervos and Benito Di Fonzo.

It also featured poems from Prairie Schooner by Hedi Kaddour (translated by Marilyn Hacker), R. F. McEwan, Ander Monson, Linda McCarriston, Toi Derricotte, Marvin Bell, Marcella Pixley, Ted Kooser, Moira Lineham, Sandy Solomon, Jenny Factor, John Engman, Gary Fincke, Dannye Romine Powell, John Canaday, James Cihlar, Nance Van Winckel, Floyd Skloot and Roy Scheele.

Illustrations were provided by Michelle Ussher and Watie White.

In addition, the feature included interviews with Derek Motion, Jennifer Compton and Nance Van Winckel, plus eight more interviews on the Cordite site.

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