There is more to life than blogs ;) - and though there is sadly not a lot of activity in the Nordic countries when it comes to producing online and digital literature and poetry, there are some nordic artists and writers out there doing some really beautiful and great work. In the ELINOR (Electronic LIterature in the NORdic countries) network, that I have been part of for the last couple of years, we have had some clever people working with us, collecting what they could find of work within this field. Links and descriptions of all the works are online now at Elinor.nu. The catalogue will be officially launched at the University of Bergen today. A great feature of it is that you can add works to the collection, so if you find any work missing, let us know through the form on the website!

Cutting and pasting from Jill, who has been the network coordinator and who put a lot of work into making the catalogue happen (thanks, Jill!), here is the list of contributors that I also want to extend a thank you:
The descriptions were written by (and most of the works collected by) Marko Niemi (Finland), Karen Wagner (Denmark), Maria Engberg (Sweden) og Hans-Kristian Rustad (Norway). Solveig Smedstad did a lot of work coordinating all this and creating a brochure earlier this year, and she’s also helped migrate the catalogue to its permanent system. Pixelpikene did the design and programming.

The Elinor network for electronic literature in the Nordic countries was initiated by Jill Walker, Susana Tosca, Raine Koskimaa, Patrick Svensson, Søren Pold, Thomas Brevik and yours truly.

Fyi, as a local supplement to elinor.nu, the best place to look for Danish electronic poetry and artwork is AfsnitP, don't forget to visit there once in while!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:29