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 The Two"The Two" could be called a digital poem or a story generator. It produces three-line narratives. In the first line of each stanza, two characters of unspecified gender are introduced. |
Source : ELD From Then On FireFrom then on Fire, a digital experiment in electronic literature (located at fromthenonfire.com), considers the genre of the newspaper—one of the most ubiquitous of the print-based media—in its... |
Source : ELMCIP Story MachineThis simple, animated story-generator was targeted at young children learning to read and write. |
Source : ELMCIP Labyrinth…Labyrinth… is a Polish interactive hypertext novel. Textual layer of the artwork is broadly inspired by postmodern books including If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. |
Source : ELMCIP Elogio del texto digital. Claves para interpretar el nuevo paradigma"Elogio del texto digital. Claves para interpretar el nuevo paradigma" (Praise to Digital Text. |
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Source : ELMCIP Tumulte, 227 histoires brèves |
Source : ELMCIP Spring Day NotationHow does one attempt to capture the experience of being out in nature, surrounded by hills, trees, flowers, grass, sky? |
Source : ELMCIP Toward a Circulation of the PageThis kinetic collage poem is built out of text by Soderman and quotes from eight pieces written by theorists and writers whose work reflects upon the nature of writing in spaces other than the... |