Hypertext is text displayed on a computer with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Other means of interaction may also be present, such as a bubble with text appearing when the mouse hovers over a particular area, a video clip starting, or a form to complete and submit. The most extensive example of hypertext today is the World Wide Web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext.

This is my first experience with hypertexts,as a reader.This one,particularly,is too long but it’s amazing because the history is very interesting and it engages you to the history.The author makes you participle of his history making you feel as another character.I like this kinds of histories because you feeling you as another character means that is a good history and that are enjoying it.
The comprenhension of the reading of the text is good because Judy Malloy’s language is simple and easy to understand.Anyway,I didn’t know some words;but the most of them,I understood it without the aid of the dictionary.
She uses a standard and,sometimes,colloquial variant of language because he uses actual vocabulary.
This new way of reading has been different and difficult to understand in the begining but,finally,thanks to this hypertext I can conclude that I love it.
I would recommend hypertext reading to those who have never experienced this before.
The erotism makes the history more attractive.
The dreams and nightmares makes you feel like scared.
The memories and thaughts show that she is a very reflexive person,but too that she lives subject to her past.
The most difficult is where start reading and where stop because this hypertext is long and has too much links to follow.
Another difficulty is to follow the history without getting lost because a long history has a lot of argument and a lot of things that happen in.
Another difficulty is that is a hypertext and is my first experience reading and analyzing one of this kind of texts.
Another difficulty is that you have to choose one hypertext and there are several.
http://peherjo.blogs.uv.es/2010/01/09/conclusion/

JUDY MALLOY lleva escribiendo libros experimentales desde 1975. En sus primeras obras utilizaba fotos, texto y dibujos en tarjetas de ficheros 3×5 o libros electromecánicos que se leían pulsando botones. Cuando los ordenadores personales se extendieron desde mediados de los ochenta, empezó a utilizar estructuras de bases de datos informáticos para hacer “narrabases”: narrativas verdaderamente no secuenciales. Sus libros artísticos, instalaciones de información, performances y narrabases se han expuesto internacionalmente, y su obra ha sido publicada por E.P. Dutton y Tanam Press. Su hipertexto Its name was Penelope está publicado en Eastgate Systems. Malloy fue “artista residente” en Xerox PARC en 1994. Ahora trabaja como Coordinadora “Front Desk” para Arts Wire, un sistema online de comunicación para las artes, y como editora asociada de LEONARDO.

http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/hipertul/malloyma.html

I’ve decided to focus my paper on the aspect of space in Judy Malloy’s “Uncle Roger” because I think it’s the easiest aspect to analyze and study this hypertext.
The prestige of the author made me think on working about some work realized by her.She is the most important hypertext writer and her works are very well developed and are easy to understand.
“Uncle Roger”(1986) is very difficult to follow because you have too much links to follow and the action is non-linear and because it’s too long,but it’s very interesting and easy to understand.
It consists on three parts or “files”,in which one are taking place different parties observed by the narrator of the history.
We can deduce that is a story of Sillicon Valley because the relation of what the narrator explains and Sillicon’s Valley culture.
As a reader you can go through the history as other character more;this is the interaction between public and author.
The only thing negative is that it’s too long with 188 links to follow and to analyze.
Now,lets go into a general analysis of Uncle Roger.
Jenny,the narrator of Uncle Roger is the babysitter,who takes care of Caroline Broadthrow,Louise’s and Tom’s daughter.
In the first “file” or part she describes the party in Woodside,its guests and all about them and about her dreams,most of them erotic,with Jeff.
Her Uncle Roger behaves as he doesn’t know Jenny and this is extrange to her.
In the second “file”,they are all celebrating Tom’s birthday,two weeks later,and she has memories with Jeff and David,written on a notebook.Uncle Roger is here again and he behaves as he doesn’t recognize her again.
In the last file,she is working in the offices of San Francisco and speaks about her workmates and her dreams and nightmares.
http://peherjo.blogs.uv.es/2010/01/09/introduction-3/

Overviews
1. Margaret Morse: The Poetics of Interactivity
2. Patric Prince: Women and the Search for Visual Intelligence
3. Sheila Pinkel: Women, Body, Earth
4. Anna Couey: Restructuring Power: Telecommunications Works Produced by Women
5. Kathy Brew: Through the Looking Glass
Artists’ Papers
6. Steina: My Love Affair with Art: Video and Installation Work
7. Joan Jonas: Transmission
8.Dara Birnbaum: The Individual Voice as a Political Voice: Critiquing and Challenging the Authority of Media
9. Jo Hanson: Small Leaps to Ascend the Apple Tree
10. Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison: Shifting Positions towards the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness
11. Sonya Rapoport: Process(ing) Interactive Art: Using People as Paint, Computer as Brush
12. Lynn Hershman: Touch-sensitivity and Other Forms of Subversion
13. Nancy Paterson: Bicycle TV: Expo ’92 Installation
14. Pauline Oliveros, Acoustic and Virtual Space as a Dynamic Element of Music
15. . Rebecca Allen with Erkki Huhtamo I Always like to go where I am not supposed to be
16. Donna Cox: Algorithmic Art, Scientific Visualization and Tele-immersion: an Evolving Dialogue with the Universe
17. Agnes Hegedus: My Autobiographical Media History – Metaphors of Interaction, Communication and Body Using Electronic Media
18. Judith Barry: Reflections on some Installation Projects
19. Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen: Do While Studio
20. Brenda Laurel: Technological Humanism and Values-driven Design
21. Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss: Imagine a Space Filled with Data
22. Char Davis: Landscape, Earth, Body, Being, Space and Time in the Immersive Virtual Environments Osmose and Ephemere
23. Cecile Le Prado: Sound Installations and Spatialism
24. Pamela Z: A Tool is a Tool
25. Nell Tenhaaf: Production and Reproduction
26. Alluquere Rosanne Stone: Your Words, My Silent Mouth: Trying to Make Narrative Sense out of Nonnarrative Work
27. Valerie Soe: Video arte povera: Lo-Fi Rules!
28. Kathy Rae Huffman: Face Settings: an International Co-cooking and Communication Project by Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman
29. Diane Fenster and Celia Rabinovitch: The Alchemy of Vision
30. Linda Austin and Leslie Ross: Pigs, Barrels and Obstinate Thrummers
31. Dawn Stoppiello with Mark Coniglio: Fleshmotor
Concluding Essays
32. . Jaishree K. Odin: Embodiment and Narrative Performance
33. Simone Osthoff: Women and Media Arts in Brazil
34. Martha Burkle Bonecchi: Technology has Forgotten Them: Third World Women and New Information Technologies
35. Carol Stakenas: Crossing the Threshold: Examining the Public Space of the Web Through Day Without Art Web Action
36. Zoe Sofia: Contested Zones: Futurity and Technological Art
www.wordcircuits.com/dir/authors.htm
Forward Anywhere, coauthored with Cathy Marshall (Eastgate Systems, 1996). Hypertext fiction. There’s also an earlier Web version of the work, which is implemented somewhat differently and is less complete.
l0ve0ne (Eastgate Web Workshop, 1994). Hypertext fiction.
My Name is Scibe, written collaboratively with Tom Igoe, Chris Abraham, Tim Collins, Anna Couey, Valerie Gardiner, Joseph Wilson, and Doug Cohen (Arts Wire, 1994). Hypertext fiction.
its name was Penelope (Eastgate Systems, 1993). A narrative about an artist’s life. The sections appear in a random order that differs with each reading, reflecting the randomizing nature of memembers.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9905″

The text is divided in three different “files”,where the actions take place:
– “A Party in Woodside”.
– “The Blue Notebook”.
– “Terminals”.

The action mainly takes place in four spaces described through the narration:
– Broadthrow’s House,Woodside,California.
– Restaurant of hotel.
– Offices of a company.
– Room of Jenny;places of her thoughts,memories,dreams
and nightmares.
The titles of each part give us an idea of what they’ll contain.
We remark that all the dreams,thoughts,memories and nightmares are taking place in Jenny’s mind.
In A Party in Woodside,we find “party” and “Woodside” as references to introduce us where the history will be taken place and what is going to happen.Every part is a party from 1-74.
PARTY 1
The party was in Caroline Broadthrow’s house,in Woodside:”Broadthrow’s party”.
PARTY 2
With the location”Woodside,California”,we know that Caroline Broadthrow’s family live in California.
PARTY 3
“My room at the house in Woodside is in the back of the garage where Tom and Louse keep their two Mercedes”;it refers to her own room and private space in the house.
PARTY 4
“Greek Delicatessen”;Louise is inside,buying olives.The sales man is behind the counter.
PARTY 5
“Tinnywind or Tinnywild”;imaginary living place,”Western beaches” and “Eastern Seacoast”;where Tinnywild is;are space marks of imaginary places in Jenny’s mind,in her dreams.
PARTY 6
“I was opposite a girl with short, neat brown hair and a small white collar on her red plaid dress”;Jenny’s seat in the party.
PARTY 7
He walks through the street of his imaginary town,always in her mind.
PARTY 8
“Massachusetts”;the action isn’t taking place there.
PARTY 9
“Station” and “train” refer to public spaces,in a memory,in her mind.
PARTY 10
“Uncle Roger invited me to his home”and “the living room”refer to a visit to Uncle Roger in “California”.
PARTY 11
The house,where the party takes place,is describes as an interior space.
PARTY 12
“Jeff and I were standing in a shallow pool; water came up to our waists”;dream about Jeff in a swimming pool.
PARTY 13
“Train”,”Washington,DC” and “San Francisco” refer to places in her dream.
PARTY 14
“Here in Woodside” and ” Inside, the floors are covered by dense blue grey carpets, and all the walls are painted pale pink” refer to the house in Woodside.”Massachusetts, near Broadthrow headquarters” refers to the second house and “The Cottage” and “New Hampshire” refer to the third house.
PARTY 15
“The cottage in New Hampshire”,Broadthrows’s summer residence
“Paris”;he went to visit Louise,in August;”Huntsville”;where was Tom and “Mexico”;where Leslie,the former babysitter,went unexpectedly.
“At the San Francisco airport”;where she was with Mark,Caroline and Louise,two weeks ago.
PARTY 16
“On the car door”;it takes place in a car.
PARTY 17
“Mark was sitting on the couch; Beside him […] Mark’s English teacher, Miss G”;it describes the place of sitting Mark and his English teacher.
“I went back to the long boat in Tinnywind harbor”;it takes place in Tinny Harbor.
PARTY 18
“Small islands”,”Tinnywind harbor”,”rowboat”,”little island”,”one tree on the island”and “sat on the warm sand”;refer to Tinnywind,her imaginary place where she is living.
PARTY 19
It describes the position of the cat(“sitting on the windowsill”)and Uncle Roger(“outside”),changing after(“Louise let Uncle Roger in”),in Broadthrow’s house(“Broadthrow’s front door”).
PARTY 20
“New York”;Louise thinks Uncle Roger is there.
PARTY 21
Jenny describes what Uncle Roger and his grandfather usually do.
PARTY 22
“Haiti”;Uncle Roger suggests Jenny to go there,tomorrow.
PARTY 23
“There are three upstairs” it refers to the high of the house and the “bathrooms”,where Uncle Roger needs to go.
PARTY 24
“By the bar that separates the kitchen form the dining room”;it refers to a description of the house.
PARTY 25
“Jane was sitting beside Caroline on the white couch”;it refers to where Jane and Caroline are sitting.
PARTY 26
“Massachusetts”;where Jack came out from.
PARTY 27
“Texas”;where is Jack from.
PARTY 28
“Went out the front door”,”Under his arm” and “He left”;it refers to Uncle Roger’s leaving.
PARTY 29
“Lying on my pillow now”,it refers to the situation of Puffy,the cat.
PARTY 30
“I sat down beside Caroline and Jane”,”Louise was standing over us” and”Caroline got up”are references to the places where people are sit.
PARTY 31
“Jack showed me around their new home in Sunnyvale”,it refers to an excursion to Sunnyvale.
PARTY 32
It refers to the conversation with Jane(“I moved a little closer to Jane on the white couch”):she grew up in Massachusetts(“from Massachusetts, near where I grew up”) and she worked in Boston,in a lab(“in a lab on route 128 in Boston”).
PARTY 33
“Jack and Jane’s house was paneled with brown plastic wood and on the mantel there was a photograph of Jack and the Secretary of Defense”;this is a description of Jack and Jane’s house(Broadthrows).
PARTY 34
“A party on a cruise ship”;here we have a mark of fictional and real space.
PARTY 35
“Rose has got her hand on your husband’s crotch again”;Rose is touching Jane’s husband.
PARTY 36
“The woman who sat down on the couch beside Jane”,a woman speaking with Jane.
PARTY 37
“Bathroom”;Jane needs to go there.
PARTY 38
Jenny is inside the party(“me sitting on the couch”) and Jeff comes in(“Jeff came in”).
PARTY 39
“Jeff sat down beside me on the couch”;Jenny and Jeff are talking.
PARTY 40
“How do you like California?”;Jeff asks Jenny about California.
PARTY 41
“Puffy jumped into Jeff’s lap”;the cat is with them.
PARTY 42
“He had been born in San Jose and lived there all his life”;Jeff was born in San Jose and lived there.
PARTY 43
“Tom came over”;Tom is with them,now.
PARTY 44
“Puffy jumped off Jeff’s lap and ran under the couch”;Puffy changes his position.
PARTY 45
“Sitting on a silver chair”;it refers to Caroline’s position.
PARTY 46
“Headed up the stairs”;Caroline and Jenny are going there.
PARTY 47
“To the party”;it refers to the fact that they are still in the party.
PARTY 48
“Then I went back to the party to say goodnight. As I walked into the room”;space changes as Jenny goes back to the party.
PARTY 49
“My room”,”through the garage”,”past the two Mercedes”,”into my little room” and “back home in Boston”;they refer to the different spaces where the action takes place.
PARTY 50
“The swimming pool in my dream was surrounded by an ivy covered fence and large maple trees.The grass was bright yellow-green”;it refers to a description about the swimming pool where Jenny’s dream takes place.
PARTY 51
“On the bureau in his residence, Uncle Roger has a ceramic egg”,”sitting in a little basket full of yellow straw”,”a small piece of paper” and “is stuck in the straw”;it refers to Uncle Roger’s bureau in his residence.
PARTY 52
“Lying on the sand beside the water on a small island in Trinnywind Harbor”;it refers to her dream with Jeff in Tinnywind Harbor.
PARTY 53
“I was in Venice, Italy”;”lobby of my hotel”;”into a gondola”;”out of the gondola”;she dreams that she is in Venice,waiting for Tom.
(There are 74 parties but in the other 21 parties there aren’t any space marks or are there in the same place and have the same space marks than previously noted)

The Blue Notebook contains experiences of the characters,written and described in this notebook.Every part is a blue,from 1-75.
We always have descriptions about erotic situations.
BLUE 1
“A restaurant in a hotel just off the highway that runs down the East side of South Bay”;there are references to where the characters are celebrating Tom’s birthday and where they are sitting(“I was down at the end of the last table;he was at the head of the table;Louise was sitting at his right”).
BLUE 2
They are in a restaurant:”the restaurant”.
BLUE 3
“At the second table, Jack and Rose sat together”,”Dorie sat across from Rose”,”Sitting next to Dorie and across from Jack was Uncle Roger”;here there are references to the positions of the guests.
BLUE 4
“Three men in tan suits and Denis sat at the third table”;it refers to the position of Dennis and three of the rest of the guests.
BLUE 5
“Alburquerque”;it refers to a place.
BLUE 6
“Balloons were tied behind Tom’s chair” and “potatoes and a small pile of presents in front of him”;refer to positions of somethings in the table of the restaurant.
BLUE 7
“Hawaii”;Uncle Roger explains she has been there once.
BLUE 8
“Restaurant” and “hotel lobby”;refer to descriptions of some parts of the restaurant.
BLUE 9
“Sitting at a small sticky table outside a café, in San Jose; a jelly doughnut in front of me”;it refers to a memory in Jenny’s mind and there is a spatial change.
BLUE 10
“David’s apartment”,”Bathroom on one side” and “Small kitchen on the other side”;it refers to a staff distributed,in David’s apartment;all is written in her blue notebook.
BLUE 11
“He was standing by the window pulling on his pants”;it refers to David’s position.
BLUE 12
“Went to the window”,”Square” and “Lake” are referred to a conversation Jenny-David.
BLUE 13
“David’s refrigerator”,”passenger side”,”driver’s side”,”into the car”,”place up North” and “David kept his boat”;it refers to David’s boat,the main space for the action,now.
BLUE 14
“David was looking at the road”,”left the highway and were driving along the edge of a steep rocky hill”,”wasn’t much traffic on the road” and “rolled down my window”;the action takes place into David’s car and in the road.
BLUE 15
“On a back porch above the rocks”,”hole between rocks”,”back seat of the car” and “lay down on his sleeping bag”;it refers to some note in her notebook.
BLUE 16
“Sally jumped out the car window; she ran down the cliff; I got out of the car”;the action takes place outside the car.
BLUE 17
“Outside the town where David’s parents had their summer house”;the action takes place in David’s parents summer house.
BLUE 18
“The café in San Jose; all around, the streets were torn up; The cafe was an oasis of piles of dirt […]; There was some powdered sugar on my sweater; I brushed it off; Jeff was standing there”,”blue notebook in my pocketbook”,”on the table”,”the action is taking place in a memory about a café”.
BLUE 19
“Since the party in Woodside”;is like a flashback into the past.
BLUE 20
“A waiter mopped up the area in front of Dorie”,”pushed his chair out from the table”,”on his lap”,”around the table”,”beside his plate”;it refers still to tom’s birthday,in the restaurant of a hotel.
BLUE 21
“We all sat around a big table”;Uncle Roger and Grandy had the birthday party together.
BLUE 22
“Went out in the harbor in the old green rowboat”;this is about a memory,that takes place in Jenny’s mind.
BLUE 23
“The bathroom”,”corridors”,”ladies room”,”inside”,”lying on the couch” and “this is the ladies room, Uncle Roger”;refer to the fact that Jenny needs to go into the ladies toilet and Uncle Roger is in.
BLUE 24
“Ladies room”,”on chrome shelf under the green marble bordered mirror”;they are descriptions about the bathroom.
BLUE 25
“At the table outside the café”;they are speaking about when Jenny met Jeff,in a terrace,outside the café.
BLUE 26
“We drove North”,”driveway”,”in the parking”,”we went in”,”next to a faded list”,”a vending machine against the wall”,”next to the vending machine on an old table was a Mr. Coffee machine”,”cluttered office”,”cluttered office”,”the doorway of his office”;these are references about the company where Jeff worked,in San Jose,the offices and that day they spent together.
BLUE 27
“The road” and “driveway”;Jenny and David were inside the car.
BLUE 28
“Pulled out of my pocketbook”,;change in the position of the notebook.
BLUE 29
“Log cabin”,”on the mantel of the cabin”;she describes what happened there.
BLUE 30
“To the leather couch in front of the fireplace”,”on the couch”,”we lay quietly on the couch”;it refers to her thought in that erotic situation.
BLUE 31
“Put in my pocketbook” and “the doorway of his office”;there is a change of space and position of the notebook.
BLUE 32
“Blue 54 in San Jose”;the action takes place in San Jose.
BLUE 33
“Office door”;now we are back to the offices.
BLUE 34
“Ladies room of the restaurant”;now we are back to the ladies toilet in the restaurant,to the conversation between Uncle Roger and Jenny.
BLUE 35
“In the corridor”,where Jenny hears footsteps of two ladies(“two ladies entered the ladies room”);and in (“toilet stalls”)where they move.
BLUE 36
“I went into an adjacent stall”;Jenny changes her position.
BLUE 37
“In Haiti”;it refers to Uncle Roger, who was there.
BLUE 38
“The toilet”,”the toilet in my stall”;where Uncle Roger and Jenny still are.
BLUE 39
“San Francisco office”,”there”,”I don’t want to work in your office”;where Jenny will start to work.
BLUE 40
“That party in Woodside”;another flash back again,in the time;to the party in Woodside.
BLUE 41
“Woodside”,”at school”,”his car”,”California Coastline”;she remembers the days working for the Broadthrows.
BLUE 42
“The beach”;David suggests her to go to the beach with him.
BLUE 43
“The beach was empty”;they planned to go to the beach and have a picnic here.
BLUE 44
“A stream of red wine soaked the sand”;they are in the sand of the beach speaking and having lunch.
BLUE 45
“Go back East”;we have an spatial reference,because she,back to the reality,doesn’t know exactly what to do:going with David to the East or going to work to the offices in San Francisco.She has doubts.
BLUE 46
“Back to the table in the restaurant”;she has changed her position.
BLUE 47
We are back to the reality:signing “Happy birtday”to Tom and with the memories of Jenny,as normally.

This part of the history is mainly about dreams and memories.

(There are 75 blues but in the other 28 blues there aren’t any space marks or are there in the same place and have the same space marks than previously noted)

In “Terminals”,there aren’t many spatial references to focus on because the actions take place on the same place.This file is divided in a scene and 58 terms.
The actions takes place in the offices of a company,where Jenny works in San Francisco,speaking about the company and the people in.
The few spatial marks there are,they are found in Jenny’s dreams,memories,thaughts and nightmares;in the memories about Jeff and Uncle Roger.
They are mostly descriptions of places and things that take place in:San Francisco,where she works;El Cerrito Plaza Shopping Centre,one of her reports;lunch room,in the offices;Woodside;Boston,a present of Uncle Roger was a trip to here;Jenny’s apartment,dream with Jeff;Airport,her mother’s waiting for her;Airplane,she went by this with Uncle Roger to San Francisco.
http://peherjo.blogs.uv.es/2010/01/09/space-analysis/