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For Immediate Release
Contact; Judy Malloy
tel: 510-758-1878
Email: jmalloy at artswire.org
web site:
http://www.artswire.org/jmalloy/dorothy/thewords.html


81 YEAR OLD PAINTER TELLS STORY ONLINE

El SOBRANTE, CA -- Internet pioneer Judy Malloy has finished
the online hypernarrative Dorothy Abrona McCrae.

Purportedly the memoir of an 81 year old legendary "Bay Area
Figurative" painter, the hypernarrative Dorothy Abrona McCrae
  -- http//www.artswire.org/jmalloy/dorothy/thewords.html --
is the story of a life spent making art.

Set in Dorothy's studio/residence in the Gold country foothills,
the narrative is punctuated by visits from students, artist
colleagues, and curators, Dorothy's story moves from descriptions
of her paintings, to a retrospective of her work at a new
contemporary art center, to the return of stray cats and old
lovers.

The work was begun as an online serial in April, 2000.  A new
installment was added each month. The final installment is woven
into a backdrop of Christmas shopping, country Christmas
traditions, foothills wineries, and holiday celebrations.

Dorothy Abrona McCrae takes advantage of the computer's
capabilities for the fluid display and manipulation of narrative
information.  The interface is elegant yet non-obtrusive,
allowing the reader to page through Dorothy's memories and
recollections using either a "typewriter bar" at the end of each
lexia, or a changing collection of links to the right and to the
left of each lexia.

Telling stories in the Homeric tradition, while situated in a
contemporary electronic community, has been at the heart of Judy
Malloy's work for many years, since she began working this way,
publicly telling Uncle Roger (a narrative of sex and politics in
Silicon Valley) in 1986 on Arts Com Electronic Network on the
WELL.  In narrative voice, Dorothy Abrona  McCrae returns to
the clear visual artist's viewpoint which Malloy used  in her
hypernarrative Its name was penelope.(Eastgate Systems, 1993)

Her work has been published and exhibited and reviewed
internationally including E.P. Dutton; Tanam Press; St. Martin's
Press; Seal Press; The National Endowment for the Arts, Franklin
Furnace, NY; A  Space, Toronto; Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil;
P.P.O.W., NY; the Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art; and
ISEA2000. Her hyperfictions its name was Penelope and Forward
Anywhere (with Cathy Marshall) are published by
Eastgate Systems and have been widely reviewed.

She has been an artist in residence at Xerox PARC (designing
electronic literary structures) and is on the literary advisory
board of the Electronic Literature Organization. She is currently
the Editor of the online arts ezine, Arts Wire Current.

Conceived as a work of public literature on the Internet, Dorothy
Abrona McCrae is free and open to all interested readers.

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What the critics say about Malloy's work:

"Nicely evocative ... the effect is remarkably close to the
subjective   quirkiness of memory, of past moments floating
unpredictably to the      surface." -- Richard Grant, Washington
Post Book World

"Malloy uses the fluidity of the hypertextual medium to
create a poetic text, which, in spite of its fragmentation and
discontinuity, leads to a reading experience that is very
satisfying because it allows the reader greater creativity as to
the form the reading will take....In Malloy's text, the visual is
transformed into the verbal.  The border between text and image
dissolves, and image becomes the text." -- Jaishree K. Odin,
Modern Fiction Studies (MFS)

Forward Anywhere is not just jottings about how each author would
like her past to be seen, but rather a subtly worked epistolary
text whose own concerns seem to take precedence over those of the
two individuals. Read forward or randomly, it both coheres and
surprises." -- Marek Kohn,   The London Independent

"Judy Malloy explores the intricacies of gender and interpersonal
relations, using a collage technique to elude facile analyses or
constructions of narrative line. Computers drift in and out of the
"Roar of Destiny" as structural cues, as elements within it, and
as psychic affects that hack consciousness in the form of
hallucinatory dreams." -- Paul Hertz, Leonardo Electronic Almanac