Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist whose works of electronic literature, interdisciplinary performance, and installation have been widely and internationally presented. He is the creator of digital literary works including The Precession (work-in-progress, 2009-2011), The Jew's Daughter (Electronic Literature Collection, 2006), My Name is Captain, Captain (Eastgate Systems, 2002), and The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), a collaborative writing, archiving, and text-visualization project for which he was a recipient of the inaugural Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers' Grant in 2007.
He received his MFA from Brown University. His work has been included in a broad range of festivals, conferences and exhibitions with recent venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Landmark @ Bergen Art Museum, House of World Cultures (Berlin), Teatre & TD (Zagreb), and the Chicago Cultural Center. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago creating code-driven text work for the building's large-scale multi-screen digital facade. His work has been the subject of numerous critical studies and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, RAINTAXI, and the Iowa Review.
Judd teaches as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Writing, Art and Technology Studies, and Performance. He was an Associate Member of the seminal performance group Goat Island from 2004 until 2009 when the company disbanded.