The program for the ELMCIP E-Literature and New Media Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia has been announced. The seminar will be held Thursday and Friday September 22-23 the City Hotel in Ljubljana. Scholars, writers, and artists interested in attending should contact the seminar organizer, Janez Strehovec by email: janez.strehovec@guest.arnes.si

The preliminary schedule is attached. Also attached is the reservation form for the City Hotel. Rooms should be reserved by August 31st.

We have migrated the ELMCIP Knowledge Base platform from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, which was a non-trivial process. We have also moved from a shared host to a VPS, which should result in better performance. There are a few remaining issues that still need to be resolved, including some problems with existing video attachments, and the FAQ is temporarily disabled. However, users and contributors to the Knowledge Base can now enter and edit records as before. New features will be deployed over the course of the summer, and a more visually appealing redesign of the site is in the works.

This Consortium for Electronic Literature (CELL) workshop presents international projects that document, curate, and present research on electronic literature: born-digital literary forms such as hypertext fiction, kinetic poetry, interactive drama, location-based narrative, multimedia literary installations, and other types of poetic experiences made for the networked computer.

We are looking forward to the ELMCIP Workshop on Electronic Literature and Pedagogy, which will be held at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Karlskrona, Sweden from June 14-17. The workshop will be a gathering of experts, theorists, and authors who have taught electronic literature in a variety of institutional contexts in Europe and abroad.

Over the course of the next week, we are upgrading the platform of the Knowledge Base and ELMCIP site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The changes should result in better performance, and will open the door to some improvements we have planned for later this year, including more features for logged-in users of the database and better export capabilities for sharing the information in the Knowledge Base with other international projects in the field.

Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP), a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation, seeks submissions of electronic literature from European writers and practitioners for its upcoming anthology. We are looking for innovative literary works by European authors that take advantage of digital media and computation.

Submissions will be accepted from April 12 to September 30, 2011.

The Electronic Literature Research Group at the University of Bergen department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic studies welcomes you to attend two special events celebrating the launch of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.

The ELMCIP project just concluded a very productive seminar on Electronic Literature Publishing at the University of Jyväskylä in central Finland.

In a few minutes, the second ELMCIP seminar will begin in Jyväskylä, Finland. The topic is Electronic Literature Publishing, and it will start by a presentation of a new report on publishing of electronic literature in Europe compiled by Markku Eskelinen and Giovanna di Rosario.