Judy Malloy

Judy Malloy
Born	Judith Ann Powers January 9, 1942 Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Middlebury College
Children	Sean Langdon Malloy
Parent(s)	Barbara Lillard Powers Wilbur Langdon "Ike" Powers
Relatives	Walter Powers (cousin)
Website	http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/

Judy Malloy is a poet whose works inhabit the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art. Malloy is a pioneer in both new media literature and hypertext fiction. She was an early creator of online interactive and collaborative fiction on The WELL and Arts Wire .

Her work has been exhibited and published internationally including the 2008 Electronic Literature Conference, San Francisco Art Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, São Paulo Art Biennial, the Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Walker Art Center, Visual Studies Workshop, Berkeley Art Center, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Centenary of Carmen Conde, Cartagena, Spain, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum and the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Houston Center for Photography, Richmond Art Center, San Antonio Art Institute, A Space, Toronto, Canada, National Library of Madrid, Eastgate Systems, E. P. Dutton, Tanam Press, Seal Press, MIT Press, The Iowa Review Web, and Blue Moon Review. 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. It was a finalist in Prix poesie-media 2009, Biennale Internationale des poetes Val de Marne, France, May, 2009.

Biography

Born as Judith Ann Powers in Boston a month after Pearl Harbor, Malloy was raised in Massachusetts. Her mother was a writer and editor and her father, a Normandy veteran, worked as Assistant District Attorney in two Massachusetts counties and then as Chief Assistant US Attorney for Massachusetts. Malloy skied and played tennis, summering in New Hampshire, Cape Cod and the Berkshires. Malloy felt an early calling to the visual arts and began painting and sketching as a child.

After graduating from Middlebury College with a degree in literature and work in studio art and art history, Malloy took a job at the Library of Congress. In 1965 she met electronics engineer Jim Malloy. They traveled to Europe and married in Nürnberg in 1968.

In the next few years, while writing and making art, Judy Malloy worked as a technical information specialist at the NASA contractor Ball Brothers Research Corporation, running their technical library and learning FORTRAN programming in order to identify relevant content for research.

Moving to the East Bay in the early 1970s, Malloy was divorced in 1977. She lived in Berkeley where, in addition to installations and performances, she developed a series of artists books that incorporated non-sequential narratives driven by words and images. She currently resides in El Sobrante, California.

Run down twice incidents

When she was an union activist and working on the Super lucy performances in Berkeley, a station wagon ran into her on a bike. She was thrown on the street and bounced on her head.

While working on the OK Genetic Engineering project she had critical disc problems and back pain. It the pain was so bad that she remembers crying. She almost died from a toxic shock reaction to a myelogram in which the doctor said it was the worse he had ever come across.

July 1994, she got run down in Tempe, Arizona while working for Arts Wire and for Xerox PARC on electronic literature and the document of the future, as a consultant/artist.

These incidents gave her a severed artery, open fractures, causing her leg to be broken in 13 areas. While in the ambulance, it was said that she would have to take her leg off, however, in the prison hospital they put it together with extensive rods, pins, skin and muscle grafts and an arterial bypass. The following year, it started to break. First, the pin called for a replacement. Second, another pin broke and the rod had slipped painfully into her ankle which had to be replaced as well.

In 2000 of January, she fell on a hill. The bottom of her femur got cut off and fell into her knee camp. Calling for help at this moment no one came, forcing her to drag herself up the hill. The surgery for this was complicated due to the many serve leg injuries and fractures she had.

Online

In 1986, Malloy wrote and programmed Uncle Roger, the first online hyperfiction project with links that took the narrative different directions depending on the reader's choice. Uncle Roger was mentioned as the start of a future art form by the Wall Street Journal in their 1989 centennial publication.

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. Malloy was the initial editor of Leonardo Electronic News, 1991–1993, now Leonardo Electronic Almanac. For Leonardo, she worked to make the work of new media artists more visible, creating the artist's "Words on Works" (WOW) Project, published in Leonardo Electronic News and Leonardo.

In 1989, Malloy's hyperfiction work its name was Penelope was exhibited at the Richmond Art Center, gaining publication in 1993 by Eastgate Systems. Also in 1993, Malloy was invited to XEROX PARC as artist-in-residence, where she developed Brown House Kitchen, an online narrative written in LambdaMOO. Malloy then wrote l0ve0ne, published in 1994 by Eastgate Web Workshop as their first work. Malloy created Making Art Online in 1994. One of the first arts websites, Making Art Online is currently hosted by the Walker Art Center.

Between 1993 and 1996, while working with PARC, Malloy and Cathy Marshall (hypertext developer) collaborated on Closure Was Never a Goal in this Piece, an article published in the book Wired Women, which documented their experiences working on their other project, Forward Anywhere: Notes on an Exchange between Intersecting Lives, a hypernarrative work based on electronic communication that passed between the two in which they sought "to exchange the remembered and day-to-day substance of our lives". In an essay entitled, "Closure was never a goal in this piece" written by the two collaboratively, they dialogue back and forth on their own individual experiences when creating the piece, "Forward Anywhere," excerpts can be found in the site itself.

Malloy worked for Arts Wire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) from its early origins in 1993. She began serving as editor of the online periodical Arts Wire Current in March 1996. She continued as editor through the periodical's name change to NYFA Current in November, 2002, until March 2004.

Judy Malloy is the editor of Women, Art & Technology, a documentation on 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. Published in 2003 by MIT Press in 2003. Her most recent work is the new media poetry trilogy Paths of Memory and Painting which she finished in 2010.

Art California Web

Judy Malloy acts as the current host of the Art California Web, in partnership with the California Studies Association. The website acts as a portal to information regarding artist and art organizations in California. The primary focus is non-profit arts, with a list of over 6,000 artists and organizations, including mainstream. The focus is to encourage California art.

Selected works

• Artists Books (1977–1993)
• Landscape Projects (1978–)
• Installations (1979–1995)
• Judy Malloy ; illustrated by Martha Alexander ; (1980). Bad Thad. Dutton. ISBN 0525261486.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Uncle Roger (1986–1987) (2003 revised edition)
• Bad Information (1986–1988)
• OK Research, OK Genetic Engineering (1988) information art describes technology
• YOU! (1991), online poem with multiple contributors, programmed and produced by Judy Malloy
• Wasting Time, A Narrative Data Structure (1992)
• its name was Penelope (1993)
• l0ve0ne (1994)
• name is scibe (1994) a collaboratively created hyperfiction by Judy Malloy, Tom Igoe, Chris Abraham, Tim Collins, Anna Couey, Valerie Gardiner, Joseph Wilson and Doug Cohen
• The Roar of Destiny Emanated From the Refrigerator (1995–1999) an epic hyperpoem
• Forward Anywhere (1995), a collaborative hyperfiction by Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall
• Dorothy Abrona McCrae (2000)
• Interlude — Dorothy and Sid (2001)
• A Party At Silver Beach (2002)
• Afterwards (2003)
• edited by Judy Malloy (2003). Women, Art, and Technology. Leonardo Books. MIT Press. ISBN 0262134241. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Revelations of Secret Surveillance (2004–2007)
• Concerto for Narrative Data (2005–2006, 2008)
• The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen (2006–2007)
• where every luminous landscape (2008)

See also

• Digital poetry
• Electronic literature
• Hypertext fiction

External links

• Judy Malloy website
• Art California Web
• Archived issues of Arts Wire Current