Uncle Roger

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L'un des tout premiers hypertexte de fiction, considéré comme un des classiques du genre. Assez daté d'un point de vue visuel, il n'en reste pas moins un exemple en matière d'hypertexte de fiction. Cette version en ligne de l'oeuvre de 1986 a été révisée afin de mettre en ligne de nouveaux fragments de texte et en constitue donc la version définitive.

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Hosting website:

The Well

Hosting website URL:

http://www.well.com/

Date of last consultation:

August 29, 2006

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
jmalloy@mail.well.com
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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«Uncle Roger was coming towards me. He was wearing a bright red wool tie that Aunt Sally had knitted last Christmas. I opened my mouth. Uncle Roger put his finger to his lips and brushed past me, pressing a note into my hand as he passed.»

Notes

Uncle Roger - 2003 Revised Edition In 1989, in the centennial issue of the The Wall Street Journal, Michael Miller's "A Brave New World: Streams of 1s and 0s" reviewed the computer accomplishments of the era. "One new genre is the 'database novel' the creation of Berkeley, Calif. conceptual artist Judy Malloy," he wrote. "In her free-form work 'Uncle Roger' readers decide the order in which paragraphs appear on their PC screens. They can scroll through from beginning to end, or they can pick a word or phrase and follow it through the text. (A recent excerpt in the Whole Earth Review consists of a string of scenes that all feature the phrase 'men in tan suits')." [1] The three files of the first electronic hyperfiction, Uncle Roger, originally appeared from 1986-1987 on Art Com Electronic Network on the WELL. Portions of the original Uncle Roger were funded by the California Arts Council and Art Matters. In the tradition of Greek comedy, Uncle Roger is a bawdy narrative for adults. The work is mainly set at a series of parties that are observed by a narrator, who in telling the story intertwines elements of magic realism with Silicon Valley culture and semiconductor industry lore. The web adaption, originally implemented in 1995, has a different look and feel than the original that I programmed in both UNIX shell scripts and BASIC. In 1986, the original Uncle Roger offered the reader a collection of keyword links that produced chains of linked lexias and ran on the black and green or black and yellow text-based monitors of the era. The web version is redolent of the early web, and, in order to preserve some of the web's history, in this 2003 revision, I have resisted the temptation to completely redo it. The text here -- expanded to include material from the original that was not included in the first web edition and also somewhat edited for web audiences -- is now the authorized version of the narrative.-- Judy Malloy 1. Miller, Michael "A Brave New World: Streams of 1s and 0s" Wall Street Journal Centennial Issue, June 23, 1989

Biography

Malloy, Judy

Née sous le nom de Judith Ann Powers à Boston, Malloy a été élevée dans le Massachusetts. Judy Malloy est une poète dont les oeuvres s'inscrivent à la rencontre de l'hypernarrativité, du réalisme magique et l'art numérique. Elle a été une des premières collaboratrices de The Well et Arts Wire, des fictions interactives et collaboratives. Malloy a été rédactrice en chef de projets papier et en ligne. Ses œuvres littéraires ont été exposées dans le monde entier.

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