Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist whose works of electronic literature, performance, and site-based installation have been widely and internationally presented. He is the author of experimental works for web and cd including "The Jew's Daughter" (Electronic Literature Collection, 2006), "My Name is Captain, Captain" (Eastgate Systems, 2002), and "The Error Engine," an in-progress experiment in writing and artificial intelligence. He is currently working in collaboration with Goat Island performance group on a collaborative writing, archiving, and text-visualization project, "The Last Performance [dot org]," for which he was a recipient of the inaugural Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers' Grant in 2006.
Judd is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Writing, Art and Technology Studies, and Performance. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary art-making and curatorial collective, OPENPORT, and an Associate Member of Goat Island performance group.
He received his MFA from Brown University. His work has been included in symposiums and festivals such as Visionary Landscapes: the Electronic Literature Organization 2008 conference and Media Arts Show (Vancouver, Washington), OPENPORT 2007 (Chicago), Art 44/46 2007 (Chicago), E-fest 2006 (Providence), Site Unseen 2006 (Chicago), E-poetry 2005 (London), Nottdance 05 (Nottingham, UK), Cerisy 2004 (Normandy, France), Computers and Writing 2004 (Honolulu, Hawai'i), The Book Reconsidered (Boston), E-poetry 2003 (West Virginia), Language and Encoding (University of Buffalo), ELO State of the Arts Symposium (Los Angeles), DAC2001 (Providence), p0es1s: International Exhibition of Digital Poetry (Germany), File2001 (Brazil), and Digital2000 (NYC, Philadelphia). Installation and exhibition venues have included House of World Cultures (Berlin), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, Il), Chicago Cultural Center, Taxi Gallery (Cambridge, UK), Mobius (Boston), and the DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, Ma). His pieces have been reviewed by The New York Times, The New Republic, RAINTAXI, The Iowa Review, and TENbyTEN magazine.