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“[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 open access, non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional programs in the literary arts and scholarship, with a focus on electronic literature. CELL was founded by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). It currently includes ten members and is designed to allow for the integration of many more. The first phase of CELL’s project––a search engine that harvests and aggregates records from across eight partner databases––was funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant and developed at the NT2 Lab in Montreal.
Source : ELD Consensus Trance, Part 1Consensus Trance, Part 1 is a multimedia story incorporating audio, video, text, and ludic elements. The mystery begins with the narrator's efforts to contact an old school friend—Alex Nighti |
Source : ELMCIP [JJ.BS]GENERATIVE RE:EDIT/ATOR |
Source : ELMCIP Deep SurfaceDeep Surface is the monstrous progeny of a strange romance between a reading machine and a free-diving simulator. Literature at crush depth. Hypertext gets wet. |
Source : ELD Amor de ClariceThis entry was written in collaboration with the PO.EX. Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature. |
Source : ELMCIP windsoundJohn Cayley’s “windsound” is an algorithmic work presented as a 23-minute recording of a machine-generated reading of scrambled texts. |
Source : ELD Bronze"Bronze" is an interactive fiction (IF) adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, overlaying it with familiar IF puzzle themes while introducing several puzzle-inspired elements for the fairy t |
Source : ELMCIP 1_1001_100 is a digital poem by Bruno Ministro that appropriates Charles Bernstein's voice recorded from a live performance that took place somewhere in the late 60s. |
Source : ELMCIP Hva sier trærne?English title (What are the trees saying?)Kan man tenke seg at vindens sus i trekronene er trærnes måte å kommunisere på? |
Source : ELMCIP This is Not a JokeThis is Not a Joke was made as an introduction to lacma.org, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |