Arriving Simultaneously on Multiple Far-Flung Systems, 2018
"...An ethereal narrative emerges based on individual decision. The resulting form reflects the viewer’s desire for a certain path. The act of reading poetry and choosing what portion comes next alters the traditional form and a feeling of intimacy emerges between the viewer and the computer... -- Mary Gagler, Curator, Technology Becomes Them
"...Malloy's most technically and visually sophisticated work for the web to date, while carrying on her hallmark tradition of intense, compact writing" - Richard Kostelanetz, A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Routledge "Form and content achieve a near-perfect suture in the first selection in the Eastgate Web Workshop: Judy Malloy's lOve One..." - Rita Raley, Postmodern Culture
its name was Penelope, BASIC, 1989; Eastgate, 1993 "Penelope's compounded, disjunctive structure corresponds with and seems to arise from the narrator's restless splitting off of attention, under the opposed attractions of sexual and esthetic desire.....The analogy between the on-screen texts of Penelope and sequences of photographs prompts the reader's reflection up on the nature of each medium...the words of a text screen float on a motile surface, poised for instantaneous change into another, not fully predictable writing." - Barbara Page, Postmodern Culture
Uncle Roger
"Part of what has made this such an endearing and enduring work is Malloy’s instincts
for structure and humor, pacing and plot. She chose to write a fragmented story about
non-linear and associative things: parties, dreams, human interactions, food, the comings
and goings of a cat, and more. She populated this world with a few memorable
characters, but none more so than Uncle Roger himself...” – Leonardo Flores |
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