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The Jew’s Daughter Programmed and crafted by the author, Judd Morrissey. Mechanics of reconfiguration designed in collaboration with Lori Talley The Jew’s Daughter is an interactive, non-linear, multi-valent narrative, a storyspace that is unstable but nonetheless remains organically intact, progressively weaving itself together by way of subtle transformations on a single virtual page. The Jew’s Daughter can be read online at www.thejewsdaughter.com. Since it’s release The Jew’s Daughter. has been incorporated into several university syllabi within literature, creative writing and experimental programming departments. Juror Statement, ASCI.org’s Digital 2000 By, John Ippolito, Artist, Curator of Media Arts, Guggenheim Museum, NYC Most online narratives follow the “illustrated hypertext” model, in which lexias of text accented by static or moving images offer links to other lexias with similar formats. Judd Morrissey offers a welcome alternative: a navigation system in which rolling over a highlit word subtly changes the entire narrative on the page. Finally, online fiction that reads like Alain Robbe-Grillet instead of Vannevar Bush. Review The New Republic: “Whither E-Literature: Automatic Writing,” Keith Gessen The Jew’s Daughter employs a cousin of the link, but its fluid page (which on certain browsers actually takes over your entire screen) manages what the linked page has always failed to do: It insists on its own urgency. New York Times: Arts@Large: “Pushing Hypertext in New Directions,” Matthew Mirapaul Because the transformation takes place just at the edge of the reader’s peripheral vision, the effect seems that much more magical. There are practical results, though: all 225 sections of the story can be read without turning a page. The Barcelona Review: “The Book, The writer, His Tools and the Future of Publishing.” M.G. Smout The word organic comes to mind (referring to The Jew’s Daughter) but what it reminded me of was trying to block a tiny stream with one hand and though you’re half successful, to stop the water that is getting through your fingers you use the other hand, and once that dam fills and leaks you move the first hand and place it behind the other, and so on.

The Jew’s Daughter

Programmed and crafted by the author, Judd Morrissey. Mechanics of reconfiguration designed in collaboration with Lori Talley

The Jew’s Daughter is an interactive, non-linear, multi-valent narrative, a storyspace that is unstable but nonetheless remains organically intact, progressively weaving itself together by way of subtle transformations on a single virtual page. The Jew’s Daughter can be read online at www.thejewsdaughter.com.

Since it’s release The Jew’s Daughter. has been incorporated into several university syllabi within literature, creative writing and experimental programming departments.

Juror Statement, ASCI.org’s Digital 2000
By, John Ippolito, Artist, Curator of Media Arts, Guggenheim Museum, NYC

Most online narratives follow the “illustrated hypertext” model, in which lexias of text accented by static or moving images offer links to other lexias with similar formats. Judd Morrissey offers a welcome alternative: a navigation system in which rolling over a highlit word subtly changes the entire narrative on the page. Finally, online fiction that reads like Alain Robbe-Grillet instead of Vannevar Bush.

Review
The New Republic: “Whither E-Literature: Automatic Writing,” Keith Gessen

The Jew’s Daughter employs a cousin of the link, but its fluid page (which on certain browsers actually takes over your entire screen) manages what the linked page has always failed to do: It insists on its own urgency.

New York Times: Arts@Large: “Pushing Hypertext in New Directions,” Matthew Mirapaul

Because the transformation takes place just at the edge of the reader’s peripheral vision, the effect seems that much more magical. There are practical results, though: all 225 sections of the story can be read without turning a page.

The Barcelona Review: “The Book, The writer, His Tools and the Future of Publishing.” M.G. Smout

The word organic comes to mind (referring to The Jew’s Daughter) but what it reminded me of was trying to block a tiny stream with one hand and though you’re half successful, to stop the water that is getting through your fingers you use the other hand, and once that dam fills and leaks you move the first hand and place it behind the other, and so on.