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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 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 The Web StalkerI/O/D4: The Web Stalker is a speculative software application for reading and manipulating information on the most popular portion of the Internet - the World Wide Web. |
Source : ELMCIP Out My Window: Interactive Views From the Global HighriseOne highrise. Every view, a different city. |
Source : ELMCIP Tournedo GorgeThis generative poem folds in two distinctly different activities— cooking and coding— to create a mélange that harmoniously foregrounds their similarities. |
Source : ELMCIP BijenkorfThe poem 'Bijenkorf' by Annet de Graaf spoke to me because it uses minimal interventions to give another meaning to words. |
Source : ELMCIP Map of a Future WarDescribed by the author as a "Spatial narrative./Repeated access of a character set as data." In New Directions in Digital Poetry, Chris Funhouser notes that the author "...engineers |
Source : ELMCIP DiverIn this kinetic poem, the lines rise before our eyes like bubbles from a diver exploring the depths of a reservoir. |
Source : ELD Code XMark Sutherland's Code X, the packaging for the original CD-ROM (published by Coach House Press) boasts, turns its “readers” into collaborators on an intermedial sound and concrete poem by tur |
Source : ELMCIP The End of Capitalism“The End of Capitalism” is an interactive Flash movie compiled from a variety of sources—archival films, animated educational materials, televised interviews, and passages of text—all of which... |
Source : ELMCIP Aufschreibesysteme Green ghost echoThis piece is one of those rare examples of e-poems that exhibits the same textual behaviors as a print text— purely static— yet is created through such a creative engagement with the medium that... |