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Mez Mez i(A65471 works by)
Writing name for: Mez Breeze
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_ Mez , Virginia : Center for Digital Discourse and Culture , 2002 Z986885 2002 single work multimedia

This creative multimedia work consists of several parts: _cquench_, _haggard_, _monitored_, _userperv_, _reAD_ and _siqlick_.

The introduction to the work states: "...the texts presented here act as residual traces from net.wurk practices that thrive in the online environment in which they ][initially][ gestated.... u have the option of viewing these net.wurks as singular _texts_ or selected _n.hanced_ packages. the _n.hanced_ wurks contain various n.teractive elements that require u [the user] to x.plore [and]; x.tract meaning via mouseovers, clickable regions, audio fragments [and]; x.tended "click-N-hold" areas."
1 di][e][lation manifesto-:-a sliver of the future f][br][eeder Mez , 2001 single work multimedia
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 2 2001; "The allegorical figuration of the traumatic irruption of the Real seems to lie at the heart of ..., >di][e][lation manifesto-:-a sliver of the future f][br][eeder< . Here the mouse click serves to destabilize the interactor. ... Web navigation usually proceeds from the interactor's recognition of a significant "button," ... But the visual clues, made up either of garbled word chunks or opaque code-like punctuation series, are barely clues at all. Once the interactor does click on the right buttons, however, popup windows appear. And here is where the traumatic irruption of History seems to be figured: what we get when we click on a button is either a scrollable mini-window containing more disjointed text OR a popup window containing a Flash movie, each one featuring some new alien creature who comes closer and closer to our faces,...The question of who exactly the future feeder/breeders will be now becomes disturbingly indeterminate and alien. A manifesto normally claims to clarify the issues of the future; this wo/manifesto instead gives birth to some future rough beast."

Source: Body Info Web: The Internet Poetry of Mez. by George Hartley, paper presented @ the Modern Language Association International Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 28, 2001.
1 Three Texts Mez , 2001 single work prose
— Appears in: American Terror: Writings in the Immediate Aftermath , September 2001;
1 y separately published work icon Data][h!][bleeding Texts Mez , Wollongong : Mez , 2001 Z1002651 2001 single work multimedia This is an interactive multimedia website. The introduction to the work states it contains: "t.ex][e][ts r remnants from email performances d-voted to the dispersal of writing that has been n.spired and mutated according 2 the dynamics of an active network."
1 Net.Wurking an Active Discourse Mez , 2001 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin : Fine Writing & Provocative Ideas , vol. 60 no. 2 2001; (p. 175-180)
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