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.

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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/