Computing Literature Vol. 3: ELMCIP: A Report from the HERA Joint Research Project

ELMCIP: A Report from the HERA Joint Research Project documents "a three-year collaborative research project running from 2010-2013, 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. Focusing on the electronic literature community in Europe as a model of networked creativity and innovation in practice, ELMCIP intended both to study the formation and interactions of that community and also to further electronic literature research and practice in Europe. . . . A significant aspect of the success of the ELMCIP project was its focus on knowledge exchange from the moment of the project’s conception. By reaching across disciplines, traditional boundaries between academe and the arts, publics, means of distribution, and platforms, the project has an extended reach and effects that will far outlast its funded period. The impacts of the ELMCIP project cannot be easily distilled into a series of digestible bullet points. For this reason, the report is being published in a more extensive form, as a book including reflective essays from each of the principal investigators concerning the aspects of the project they directed or produced." -- Scott Rettberg, "Introduction"