Judy Malloy (born Judith Ann Powers; January 9, 1942) is an American poet whose works embrace the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art.
[4] Malloy moved to the East Bay in the mid 1970s and lived in Berkeley where, in addition to installations and performances, she developed a series of artist's books that incorporated non-sequential narratives driven by words and images.
[6] In 1986, Malloy wrote and programmed Uncle Roger, the first online hyperfiction project with links that took the narrative in different directions depending on the reader's choice.
[8] Uncle Roger was a three-part hypertextual "narrabase" (narrative database) that used keyword searching (including Boolean operators) and appeared on Art Com Electronic Network on the WELL.
This early work experimented with reader interaction, with "Forward" using hypertext links and Anywhere using a random number generator to present pieces in a random order.Women, Art, and Technology[19] Other Hypertext fiction includes lOveOne, 1994 The Roar of Destiny, 1997 Dorothy Abrona McCrae, 2000 A Party at Silver Beach (2003; 2012) Spring Day Notation, 2010 Emanated from the Refrigerator In 1988, Malloy became the coordinating editor of FineArt Forum, under the Leonardo publishing umbrella, and developed F. A. S. T. (Fine Art Science and Technology), a resource on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (The WELL) bulletin board.
[23][24] Malloy edited Women, Art & Technology (MIT Press, 2003),[25] as part of the Leonardo book series documentation of the central role of female artists in the development of new media.
The book lays out a historical outline of the female influence in art and technology including papers written by notable members of the field.
Her most recent work is the 2010 new media poetry trilogy Paths of Memory and Painting,[27] the first part of which appeared in 2008 under the title where every luminous landscape.
Malloy's where every luminous landscape (2008) was exhibited at The Future of Writing, University of California, Irvine, November, 2008 and the E-Poetry Festival, Barcelona, May, 2009.