MenuInventory of the Judy Malloy Papers, 1956-2010
Abstract
Judy Malloy is a poet and an early creator of online interactive and collaborative fiction. She is a founder of the Arts Conference on the WELL, and wrote Uncle Roger, the first online hyperfiction.
Collection includes documentation and materials from Malloy's publications and programs, including Uncle Roger and its name was Penelope, as well as materials from her nonfiction research, including her 2003 book, Women, Technology, and Art. Also includes exhibition files and correspondence files from Malloy's career as an artist, both from creating artists books and from her work in new media and hypertext. Correspondence files include letters, postcards, original artwork and clippings from other artists as well as electronic literature (e-lit) artists and writers.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Creator
- Malloy, Judy.
- Title
- Judy Malloy Papers, 1956-2010
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 9.6 Linear Feet, 7200 Items
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection Overview
The Judy Malloy Papers includes the personal and professional papers and materials from Judy Malloy, a groundbreaking artist, author, and poet working in electronic literature and online interactive formats.
The collection is still being acquired, with new additions being regularly added to this finding aid. Please consult Research Services with questions about this material.
Malloy's Printed Materials series includes both books and journal publications, with content both by and about Malloy, as well as some of her own reference material. Many books feature a chapter or contribution by Malloy, discussing or explaining her experimentation with online narratives and electronic fiction. Other articles discuss and reference her early contributions, including Uncle Roger and its name was Penelope. Some material relates to computer programming and early Internet research material. Finally, this series contains a cluster of books used by Malloy in her research for her 2003 publication, Women, Art, & Technology. These are grouped at the end of the series.
The Notebooks series includes Malloy's notes and drafts for her various writing projects, including Uncle Roger, its name was Penelope, and Brown House Kitchen. These notebooks reveal the changes each work underwent as it was edited and outlined.
The Early Artists Books series consists largely of notes and photocopies of some of Malloy's early books, as well as a folder with color slides of a selection of her art.
Malloy's Writings and Programming series is largely focused on her new media work, with large amounts of material from her creation and publication of Uncle Roger, the first electronic hyperfiction. These files include her original work, as told on the Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN), as well as later versions and program printouts. Similar documentation is available for its name was Penelope, originally exhibited by Malloy in 1988-1989 and eventually published by Narrabase Press in 1990 and Eastgate in 1993. This subseries also includes an artist book for Penelope. Smaller amounts of materials exist for Malloy's other e-literature and programs, including You!, Brown House Kitchen, Molasses, Forward Anywhere, and Wasting Time. There is also a small amount of material relating to Malloy's printed works, including Women, Art & Technology.
The Exhibitions series includes documentation and materials from Malloy's installations and exhibitions of her artists books as well as exhibitions of her new media and electronic fiction. These have been divided thusly in the Detailed Description, and subsequently arranged chronologically. Materials include postcards, plans, correspondence, news clippings and press coverage, contracts, and other materials relating to the exhibit.
Talks and Readings is a small series with materials from various speaking engagements. The most significant was Malloy's participation in the Telluride Ideas Festival in 1993.
The Correspondenceseries includes much more than correspondence, and is in fact more of a name file of Malloy's relationships throughout the artist and e-lit communities. Her general correspondence includes letters from her childhood and college travels, as well as some miscellaneous files of correspondence with various curators and others regarding her exhibitions. The bulk of the series, however, consists of Malloy's artist correspondence and Art Com Electronic Network correspondence. These files include letters, postcards, prints, news clippings and press coverage, and occasional pieces of original art sent to Malloy throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The ACEN artist files include email and letters, some exhibition documentation, and some software-related documentation that overlaps with the Software by Others series. The Correspondence series is grouped by General, Artists, and ACEN Artists, and subsequently sorted alphabetically.
The Software by Others series includes software and accompanying documentation by several ACEN artists, many of whom included inscriptions or autographs for Malloy. Finally, the Personal Materials series includes some information on Malloy's family and calendars with notes about her activities. These series are fairly small.
RESTRICTIONS: It should be noted that while this collection includes electronic media, these disks have been separated from the manuscript material in order to be migrated to Duke's Electronic Server for preservation. If you are interested in accessing this material, contact Research Services in advance.
Administrative Information
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Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research, but original electronic media is restricted. All disks have been removed from the collection for preservation.
However, collection may contain materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Contents of the Collection
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Expand AllPrinted Materials, 1979-2010
Printed materials including books and journals with articles or poetry by Malloy. Also includes her computer programming books and manuals, reference materials for various projects, and some items that reference her and her work.
Malloy's work discussed, pages 93-98.
Includes Malloy, Writing Public Literature in an Evolving Internet Environment, pages 181-189.
Includes Malloy's work, The Roar of Destiny, pages 44-45.
Limited edition fine press book. Includes video. Malloy's work is discussed and illustrated in Text 4: Linnea Dayton, Interactive Fiction: Past, Present, and Future.
His work was influential on Malloy's card catalogs.
Includes Malloy's Anyway you look at it, ADM has your antenna..., pages 76-79. Article is documentation of Technical Information, Malloy's 1981 installation.
Includes Malloy's Electronic Fiction in the 21st Century, pages 137-144. Folder also includes edited draft with notes from Cliff.
Includes Malloy and Cathy Marshall's Closure was Never a Goal in this Piece, pages 56-70.
Also includes some correspondence with Richard.
Judy Graham's work is signed, page 132.
Includes inscription for Judy Malloy.
Includes second folder with information on the Cultures in Cyberspace virtual panel.
Includes part of an inscription from Christine Maxwell. Malloy was a primary paid consultant on this book.
Includes Malloy's Information as an Artists Material, pages 48-49
Includes Malloy's OK Research/OK Genetic Engineering/Bad Information, Information Art Defines Society, pages 371-375.
Includes Malloy, Uncle Roger, An Online Narrabase, pages 195-202. Also contains thanks from Carl on page 113.
Articles by Malloy include: Artware-Intelligent, Responsive Works of Art are Changing our Ideas about Art, February 1993. Art Online, A Look at Artists, The Arts Community, and Collaborative Artwork in a New Medium-Electronic Networks, March 1993. Manipulating Words with Computers, November 1993.
Includes Malloy's Travels with Contemporary New Media Art.
Notebooks, 1981-1989 and undated
Spiral notebooks with Malloy's notes from planning art installations, as well as separate notebooks with character development, plot structures, and programming notes for Malloy's works Uncle Roger and its name was Penelope.
Includes small photographs of the card catalogs and other artists books in the installation, as well as installation notes, floor plans, and instructions on creating the installation.
Includes art notes, as well as a photograph of Malloy photographing an art work.
4 notebooks with notes from the writing and programming of Uncle Roger. Includes preliminary notes on the characters for Uncle Roger; notes on The Blue Notebook file structure and plot; notes to Fred Truck about setting up the ACEN datanet version as well as the UNIX shell version. Also includes some notes from an unfinished story, and draft emails regarding an article for the Whole Earth Review.
3 notebooks and 1 notebook cover with drafts and programming notes from the development of Penelope. Includes changes made following the Richmond Art Center Show in 1989, as well as programming notes for Song, the last file of the piece.
Undated notebook for the work created in LambdaMoo while working for the Xerox PARC as an artist-in-residence. Unfolding insert is a plot of how the food served keyed the narrative. Second notebook, dated 1993-1994, mainly includes the manuals used by Malloy to learn the programming language.
Early Artists Books, 1976-1990
Slides, photocopies, and supporting material from some of Malloy's artists books. Includes a small amount of original art.
Color slides with photographs of Malloy's art and artists books. Descriptions below include the format of each piece, the title, and the date.
Original is pen and ink on a large sheet of ricepaper, which was then folded like a map, with a folder made for it.
Original piece that is a quilt made from Xeroxes of drawings.
Includes a small amount of material on Malloy's paper-based written works, but the majority of this series relates to Malloy's electronic works, hyperfiction, and computer programming.
The disks containing Malloy's works have been removed from the collection to be individually transferred to Duke's Electronic Records Server. This includes early versions of Uncle Roger, the Apple II versions of Uncle Roger, the software version and Eastgate releases of its name was Penelope, the Eastgate version of Forward Anywhere, and You!. Please contact a reference archivist for this material.
Essay by Malloy and resources used by her in the essay. Originally published on CDD website.
Book reviews, material from a Cyberfem Panel that Malloy hosted in 1999, and material about the exhibit The Tipping Point: Health Narratives from the South End, by artists Jen Hall and Blyth Hazen.
Uncle Roger was begun online on Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) on the WELL on December 1, 1986. It was first told as an online serial with the keywords provided in each lexia-based installment, so that the readers could create their own version of the work using their own database software.
The work consists of three parts: File 1, A Party in Woodside; File 2, The Blue Notebook; and File 3, Terminals.
A working hypertextual version was published online (programmed with UNIX Shell Scripts) on ACEN from 1987-1988 with each part appearing separately. The publication of File 2 was partially funded by the California Arts Council and Art Matters. At the same time, 1987-1988, disk versions of this work were self-published and distributed by Art Com -- first Apple II and then IBM PC. The disk version was also included in the traveling exhibition, Art Com Software, as well as in other exhibitions.
Uncle Roger was first adapted for the World Wide Web in 1995 and revised in 2003. It is available at http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/uncleroger/unclerog.html. The best overall reference for Uncle Roger is Judy Malloy, Uncle Roger, An Online Narrabase, in the journal issue Connectivity: Art and Interactive Telecommunications, Leonardo 24:2, 1991 (which is included in the Printed Materials series).
Its name was Penelope was created by Malloy in three different versions, with additional variations in the first two versions. The Exhibition version dates from 1988-1989. The Artists Software version was published by Malloy's Narrabase Press in 1990, and was distributed by Art Com. Finally, the Eastgate version began publishing in 1993.
This is the version used for the Richmond Art Center Exhibition.
Molasses
Malloy was invited to create this work in the offices of The Whole Earth Review using a Mac, HyperCard, and an Apple computer. She used the cards (drawings, photographs, and texts) from one of her card catalogs (HOME) and also created the audio for the work. It was exhibited at the Art Com Software Show along with Uncle Roger. She published it via Bad Information (Berkeley, CA) in 1988.
You!
You! was a collaborative narrative data structure, created in 1991. Exhibitions include Reflux, at the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1991), as well as INTERNET, in New York City (1995). It was also included on the CD that accompanied The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (2003). It is available on the web at http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/you/index.html
Brown House Kitchen
Created in LambdaMoo while working for XEROX PARC. The creation is documented in Malloy's article Narrative Structures in LambdaMOO, in In Search of Innovation: the XEROX PARC PAIR Experiment, edited by Craig Harris, 2000.
Wasting Time
A narrative data structure published in After the Book: Writing Literature Writing Technology, Perforations 1:3, Spring-Summer, 1992, guest edited by Richard Gess.
Other disks removed from this subseries include Stuart Moulthrop's Dreamtimeand Shawn Fitzgerald's Yet Still More. These floppy disks were originally from Perforations' After the Book.
XEROX PARC, 1991-1999
Articles, speech notecards, and other materials from Malloy's time as an Artist-in-Residence.
Draft of a speech given at XEROX PARC as part of a Computer Science Laboratory called Dealer.
Forward Anywhere
The Yellow Bowl, 1993-1995
The Yellow Bowl was exhibited at Interactive Art, FISEA, in Minneapolis, Minn., November 1993, and also at Digital Identities, Sheppard Gallery, at the University of Nevada in 1995. Although the work was under contract to Eastgate in 1994, it was never published, largely due to Malloy's accident.
l0ve0ne, 1994
According to Malloy, l0ve0ne is one of the fist officially published new media literature on the web.
The Roar of Destiny, 1996-1999
File includes printouts of Unix directory that includes all the files that comprise The Roar. Also contains articles about the piece, dating 1998-1999.
Making Art Online
Work of information art that was one of the first art works available on the World Wide Web. Originally hosted by CSIR's Anima website. A version is now on the Walker Art Center website.
Exhibitions, 1970s-2000
Includes exhibitions and installations of Malloy's artists books and new media.
With Doyle Saylor; sponsored by La Mamelle, Inc. As part of the LOCATION project; partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Partially funded by National Endowment for the Arts.
Curated by Franklin Furnace. Show also traveled to University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Museum of Art, the Walker Museum, and others.
Ideas in this work were later used in Malloy's new media literature, such as its name was Penelope.
Many annual exhibitions and events.
Show traveled to the Institute for Contemporary Art (New Orleans), the Washington Center for Photography, the Houston Center for Photography, CameraWork (San Francisco), and others.
Show also exhibited at U.C. Santa Barbara, Hayward State University, Calif., and others.
Talks and Readings, 1982-1996
Includes general public speaking engagements as well as a folder from Malloy's participation in the Telluride Ideas Festival at Deep Creek Camp, Summer 1993.
Audio tape.
Includes materials from Radical Humor, at the New York University student center, 1982; Hypertext, a reading by Malloy, Christine Tamblyn, and Maria Hernandez, San Francisco Public Library, Park Branch, 1994; and The Impact of Technology on Art, U.C. Davis, where Malloy was a panelist, 1995. Also includes materials from The Women's Leadership Institution, 2001; UC Santa Cruz Hypertext 2004; Wired Women readings; and the State of the Arts Conference at Arizona State from 1994.
Includes notes and 3x5 cards from Malloy's panel presentation on Hypertext, Hypermedia, Defining a Fictional Form.
Malloy was an invited speaker; she spoke about electronic publishing. Includes a press release, notes from her session, flyers for a Deep Creek open house, lists of participants, and other materials.
Correspondence, 1950s-2000s
Includes personal correspondence from Malloy's childhood, as well as correspondence between Malloy and her contacts throughout the art world, with both traditional and new media artists.
Consists of an archive of mailings, clippings, postcards, letters, prints, and original artwork from various book artists, performance artists, and other friends of Malloy, dating largely from the 1970s-1980s. Organized alphabetically by last name.
Software written by other artists. All electronic media has been removed to be transferred to Duke's electronic records server.
Personal Materials
Three of Malloy's wall calendars and materials about Malloy's son, Sean Malloy.
Historical Note
Judy Malloy is an artist, poet, and early creator of online interactive and collaborative fiction. She is a founder of the Arts Conference on the WELL, and wrote Uncle Roger, the first online hyperfiction.
Chronology List
| Date | Event(s) |
|---|---|
| 1942 January 9 | Born Judith Ann Powers, Boston, Mass. |
| 1977-1993 | Created and exhibited numerous artists books |
| 1986 | Began writing and programming Uncle Roger |
| 1989 | its name was Penelope exhibited at Richmond Art Center |
| 1990 | its name was Penelope published by Narrabase Press |
| 1991 | Programmed and produced You! |
| 1991-1993 | Editor, Leonardo Electronic News |
| 1993 | its name was Penelope published by Eastgate |
| 1993 | Began working for Arts Wire |
| 1993 | Became Xerox PARC artist-in-residence |
| 1994 | Created Making Art Online website |
| 1995 | Created Forward Anywhere with Cathy Marshall |
| 2003 | Editor, Women, Art & Technology, published by MIT Press |
Subject Headings
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Judy Malloy Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Provenance
The Judy Malloy Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2010.
Processing Information
Processed by Meghan Lyon, November 2010
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, November 2010
Last updated by Meghan Lyon, January 2011
This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
Accessions included in this finding aid: 2010-0208, 2010-0229