the solo showcase of the Australian
MEZ – Mary Ann Breeze
was launched in 2001 and can be accessed directly here
MEZ was one of the three winners
of JavaArtist of the Year 2001 Award.
Her biography can be accessed directly here
Netart
Solo feature of the month MARCH 2020 – MEZ – Mary Ann Breeze
Recipient of JAYA’01 – The JavaArtist of The Year 2001 Award
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MEZ – Mary-Anne Breeze
“Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists.” (Florian Cramer).
The impact of her unique code/net.wurks [constructed via her pioneering net.language “mezangelle”] has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall.
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.be a][h!][ware that the texts make use of the polysemic language/code system termed _mezangelle_, which evolved/s from multifarious email exchanges, computer code re:appropriation and net iconographs. to _mezangelle_ means to take words/wordstrings/sentences and alter them in such a way as to extend and enhance meaning beyond the predicted or the expected. it’s similar to making “plain” text hypertextual via the arrangement and dissection of words & n.sertion of symbolic and actual code manipulation. the use of fragments like programming language-shards & operating system echos – such as ][knit 1][Pearl][2][ tree-structures, wildcard refs, booleanisms, unix shell commands, bare html conventions, ascii][esque][ tracks [as well as the repeated allusions 2 hyperlinks and html code via bracketing & directory slashings] – all act 2 illustrate the x.pansion of software potentialities of co:d][iscours][e in an environment x.clusively reliant on it. mezangelling attempts to expand traditional text parameters through layered/alternative meanings embedded in languages and the codes that create them, with notions of language play, software n.vocations and identity swapping being the key to comprehension; various fiction avatars have been used in the construction of these texts, & they shift through many incarnations such as data[h!]bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.exe, ova.kill, net.w][ho][urker, Purrsonal Areah Netwurker, etc. the real-life author is mez ][mary-anne breeze][.
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mezangelle language system and its ][r][evolution[1995-2001]. the texts presented here act as residual traces from net.wurk practices that thrive, react N shift according 2 fluctuations in the online environment in which they ][initially][ gestated.
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Mez has been at the center of the center-less discourse about networks, writing and codework ever since the listserv started to be a vehicle for the dissemination of artistic ideas among artists. Rather than explore or critique network communication from an implied “outside,” however, mez has situated herself within the very operations of the network, her writing never entirely separating itself from the protocols that govern the transportation and presentation of words and images. The bountiful work of mez is everywhere but nowhere, the mystical overtones are intentional as she calls her digital-creole “mezangelle”, and this most software-aware project is actually software independent, as mez has no patience or capacity for operating within the fixity of an “application,” not to mention that of the person, place or nation-state.
Author description: _cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][_ is a “netwurk repository” that’s been in operation since 2003. these “wurks” r inscribed using the infamous polysemic language system termed _mezangelle_. this language evolved/s from multifarious computer code>social_networked>imageboard>gamer>augmented reality flavoured language/x/changes. 2 _mezangelle_ means 2 take words>wordstrings>sentences + alter them in such a way as 2 /x/tend + /n/hance meaning beyond the predicted +/or /x/pected. _mezangelling_ @tempts 2 /x/pand traditional text parameters thru layered/alternative/code based meanings /m/bedded in2 meta-phonetic renderings of language. _cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][ /m/ploys a base standard of code>txt in order 2 evoke imaginative renderings rather than motion-based>flashy graphics.
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][selec][text documents rite][ual][s of passage thru stylistically driven e-communication. It is also a writing crè][ative][che, 1 that reveals & critiques the very mechanism/form][s][ that it m.mploys in order to exist.
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V[R]ignettes: A Microstory Series (2019)
Originally titled A Million and Two, V[R]ignettes is a series comprised of Virtual Reality crafted microstories. Each individual microstory, or vignette, is designed to encourage a kind of ‘narrative smearing’ – where traditional story techniques are truncated and mutated into smears (kinetic actions and mechanics, collage-like layered building blocks, visual distortions, dual-tiered text annotations) which requires a reader to make active choices in order to navigate each microstory space (storybox).
An anthology of VR works that integrate 3D illustration with poetic text and a reading experience of visceral intensity. Each piece explores unique textures, atmospheric sound design, and texts that are by turns enigmatic, impassioned, and humorous. The navigation is intuitive, recalling page turns, but also allows for free non-linear exploration.” – Judges’ commentary about the project winning the Queensland University of Technology Digital Literature Prize as part of the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards.
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Mez
has exhibited extensively since the early 90s [eg Wollongong World Women Online 1995, ISEA 1997 Chicago USA, ARS Electronica 1997, The Metropolitan Museum Tokyo Japan 1999, SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2000, _Under_Score_ @The Brooklyn Academy of Music USA 2001, +playengines+ Melbourne Australia 2003, p0es1s Berlin Germany 2004, Dissention Convention @Postmaster Gallery New York USA 2004, Arte Nuevo InteractivA Yucatan Mexico 2005, Radical Software @Turin Italy 2006 + DIWO @ the HTTP Gallery, London 2007]. Her awards include the 2001 VIF Prize [Germany], the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001 [Germany], 2002 Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize [Australia], winner of the 2006 Site Specific Index Page Competition [Italy] + awarded the 2007 “Deep Structure: Deep Play” Neutral Ground/Soil Digital Media Commission [Canada]. Mez is also an online journalist [@ Furtherfield, Metamute, CyberSociology Magazine, and fineArt Forum], co-moderator of the _arc.hive_ experimental mailing list and online curator and lecturer in Netwurking.
MEZ article on NOEMA
