I am very pleased to welcome you to the CELL website. As of May 5, our site is live and open to the world.
“[t]he cell, the smallest autopoietic structure known today . . . the minimal unit that is capable of incessant self-organizing metabolism.” (Humberto Maturana)
The Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) is an international organization led and managed by the ELO that currently includes 11 member organizations, research labs, and research centers. Since 2010, our collaborative network has been developing the information architecture needed for making born digital creative works and scholarly criticism findable across databases, world-wide.
Davin Heckman, Managing Director
Joseph Tabbi, Founding Director
The ELO recognizes the contribution of Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel for convening the initial CELL participants at a founding meeting in 2010, supported by a grant entitled “Creative Nation,” from the International Science Linkages Program of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Sydney, Australia. We also recognize NT2 for developing the CELL Search Tool.
Member Organizations
● CIBERIA (Spain), led by Maria Goicoechea, Laura Sanchez Gomez, and Begona A. Regueiro Salgado
● NT2 (Canada), led by Bertrand Gervais, Sylvain Aubé, Gabriel Gaudette, Ariane Savoie and Robin Varenas
● Po-ex.net (Portugal), led by Rui Torres
● ELMCIP (Norway), led by Scott Rettberg
● ADEL (Germany), led by Joergen Schaeffer, Peter Gendolla, and Robert Kalman
● I <3 e-poetry (US), led by Leonardo Flores
● Brown Digital Repository (US), led by John Cayley
● ADELTA (Australia), led by Anna Gibbs and Maria Angel
● EBR (US), led by Erik Rasmussen, Joe Tabbi, and Will Luers
● Hermenia (Catalonia), led by Laura Borras
● ELL (US), led by Dene Grigar and Nicholas Schiller
Source : ELMCIP Dorothy Abrena McCrae |
Source : ELD Seattle DriftJim Andrews’ “Seattle Drift” is a play on motion and stasis, surface and depth. |
Source : ELMCIP The Breathing WallFrom the press release: The Breathing Wall is a digital fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing. |
Source : ELMCIP Stud PoetryAuthor description: Stud Poetry is a poker game played with words instead of cards. Your goal is to build as strong a poetry hand as you can and, of course, to win as much money as you can. |
Source : ELMCIP Hot AirHot Air reimagines a passage from Jeanette Winterson's novel Sexing the Cherry, in which the words spoken by a village's residents rise into the sky like smoke from a fire, eventually req |
Source : ELMCIP TakelumaTakeluma is an invented writing system for representing speech sounds and the visceral responses they can evoke. Takeluma explores the complex relationships between speech, meaning, and writing.... |
Source : ELMCIP him“Him” is a hypertext poem where the lines lead to different aspects of male identity cut out of magazines and the reader becomes lost in the permutation.(Source: Author's description in State |
Source : ELMCIP COG (I)COG is a user-interactive experiment in the visual possibilities of a poem. Accordingly, COG contains textual and visual material that determines its field of expression. |
Source : ELMCIP BrainstripsBrainstrips, a series of comic strips for the web, explores key concepts in philosophy, science, and math. Each work is created in Flash and includes text, animations, audio, and video. |