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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."
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Author note: .be a][h!][ware that the texts make use of the polysemic language system termed _mezangelle_, which evolved/s from multifarious email exchanges, computer code flavoured language 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. mezangelling attempts to expand traditional text parameters through layered/alternative meanings embedded in language, with notions of language play and identity swapping being the key to comprehension; various fiction avatars have been used in the construction of these texts, and 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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The work was produced in part via the 2001 Artist-In-Residency at Wollongong City Gallery.
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