Scholars Contemplate the Irish Beer

"Judy Malloy is an electronic literature poet/researcher. 

Judy Malloy's intervention on Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge is driven by the provocative question (as contained in a source code notation): 'How would a poet drinking Guiness rewrite Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge?' Her answer is revealed in white text on a blue screen, echoing the blue lakes and skies that fill the text itself. While much of the work is grounded in Ireland's landscapes and, naturally, its beer, the faerie of Ireland also make an appearance in the text's nouns. Unlike many other works in the Taroko Gorge collection, Judy Malloy's piece omits the traditional list of other authors and interpretations, and with that change invites us to see Nick Montfort's code not as a poem awaiting remix but as an authoring system open for many types of generative manipulation." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Three