l0ve0ne: Creating Electronic Literature on the Early World Wide Web
Submission Type
Paper
Start Date/Time (EDT)
20-7-2024 10:30 AM
End Date/Time (EDT)
20-7-2024 11:30 AM
Location
Hypertexts & Fictions
Abstract
Thirty years ago, my web-based hyperfiction l0veOne was the first work to be published in the Eastgate Web Workshop. L0veOne was a road trip in its journey-based narrative lexias, in its metaphors of radically changing cyberspace, and in its exploration of the paths for electronic literature that the World Wide Web engendered. Focusing on the creation of l0ve0ne in the early World Wide Web environment but also documenting other early web-based creative work and platforms -- such as the1994 ANIMA website hosted by the Center for Image and Sound Research in Vancouver, BC Canada -- this personal account explores initial changes in authoring and audience that occurred with the introduction of the World Wide Web. It documents the role of browsers in public access to the internet, details content and authoring issues in l0ve0ne, and concludes with observations on the World Wide Web-based authoring of four other early works: Stuart Moulthrop’s Hegirascope, composer John Maxwell Hobbs’ Web Phases, Michael Joyce’s Twelve Blue, and Olia Lialina’s My Boyfriend Came Back from the War.
Recommended Citation
Malloy, Judy, "l0ve0ne: Creating Electronic Literature on the Early World Wide Web" (2024). ELO (un)linked 2024. 22.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/hypertextsandfictions/schedule/22
l0ve0ne: Creating Electronic Literature on the Early World Wide Web
Hypertexts & Fictions
Thirty years ago, my web-based hyperfiction l0veOne was the first work to be published in the Eastgate Web Workshop. L0veOne was a road trip in its journey-based narrative lexias, in its metaphors of radically changing cyberspace, and in its exploration of the paths for electronic literature that the World Wide Web engendered. Focusing on the creation of l0ve0ne in the early World Wide Web environment but also documenting other early web-based creative work and platforms -- such as the1994 ANIMA website hosted by the Center for Image and Sound Research in Vancouver, BC Canada -- this personal account explores initial changes in authoring and audience that occurred with the introduction of the World Wide Web. It documents the role of browsers in public access to the internet, details content and authoring issues in l0ve0ne, and concludes with observations on the World Wide Web-based authoring of four other early works: Stuart Moulthrop’s Hegirascope, composer John Maxwell Hobbs’ Web Phases, Michael Joyce’s Twelve Blue, and Olia Lialina’s My Boyfriend Came Back from the War.
Bio
Judy Malloy -- https://people.well.com/user/jmalloy/ -- is an electronic literature pioneer. Her work, which has also included information art, artists books, installation, performance, and arts writing, has been exhibited/published Internationally including, among many others, the Library of Congress; Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; the Sao Paulo Biennial; Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art; Walker Art Center; Hammer Museum; Universite Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne; the Center of Contemporary Art in Barcelona; FILE; Ars Electronica, ISEA; Eastgate Systems; Dutton; The Iowa Review Web; shortlisted for the Biennale Internationale des poetes en Val de Marne Prix poesie-media; shortlisted for the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2018 Robert Coover prize for the year's best work of electronic literature. Malloy teaches in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art and Technology Department and has also taught at Princeton University; The Rutgers Camden Digital Studies Center; and The San Francisco Art Institute. Her books include “Women Art & Technology” and “Social Media Archeology and Poetics” (both published by MIT Press). Recent papers/chapters have been published by Bloomsbury Press, The Digital Review , and Convergence. She had been an artist in residence and consultant in the document of the future at Xerox PARC, and her work is archived at Duke University.