Judy Malloy was born on Judith Ann Powers; January 9,1942 and is an American poet whose works embrace the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art.
19 Facts About Judy Malloy
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Judy Malloy was an early creator of online interactive and collaborative fiction on The WELL and the website ArtsWire.
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Judy Malloy has served as editor and leader for books and web projects.
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Judy Malloy's mother was a journalist and newspaper editor, and her father, a Normandy veteran, worked as an assistant district attorney in two Massachusetts counties and then as Chief Assistant US Attorney for Massachusetts.
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Judy Malloy skied and played tennis, summering in New Hampshire, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires.
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Judy Malloy felt an early calling to the visual arts and began painting and sketching as a child.
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Judy 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.
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Judy Malloy has written electronic literature works for over three decades.
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In 1986, Judy 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.
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In 1995, Judy Malloy moved this and other "narrabase" projects to the Web.
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Also in 1993, Judy Malloy was invited to XEROX PARC as an artist-in-residence, where she developed Brown House Kitchen, an online narrative written in LambdaMOO.
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Judy Malloy then wrote l0ve0ne, published in 1994 by Eastgate Web Workshop as their first work.
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Between 1993 and 1996, while working with PARC, Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall collaborated on this work, which was a hypernarrative based on emails between them in which they sought "to exchange the remembered and day-to-day substance of our lives".
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Judy Malloy wrote of this project that it was aa response to Xerox PARC's artist-in-residence program.
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Judy Malloy worked for Arts Wire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts from its early origins in 1993.
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Judy Malloy began serving as editor of the online periodical Arts Wire Current in March 1996.
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Judy Malloy continued as editor through the periodical's name change to NYFA Current in November, 2002, until March 2004.
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Judy Malloy edited the July 2016 MIT Press book, Social Media Archeology and Poetics.
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Judy Malloy was shortlisted for the 2017 Hayles Prize Social Media Archeology and Poetics, MIT Press, 2016.