[spectre] Human Readable Messages_[Mezangelle 2003-2011] Reviewed by Rob Myers.

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Human Readable Messages_[Mezangelle 2003-2011]

Reviewed by Rob Myers.

"Human Readable Messages_[Mezangelle 2003-2011]" is a book published by 
Traumawien containing almost a decade of Mez Breeze's "Mezangelle" 
writings. Mezangelle is hand-crafted text with the aesthetics of 
computer code or protocols. What marks Mezangelle out is how deep its 
use of those aesthetics go and how effectively it uses them.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/human-readable-messages#

"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.

Mez has exhibited extensively since the early 90s [eg Wollongong World 
Women Online 1995, ISEA Chicago + ARS Electronica 1997, The Metropolitan 
Museum Tokyo 1999, SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2000, _Under_Score_ @The Brooklyn 
Academy of Music 2001, +playengines+ Melbourne Australia 2003, p0es1s 
Berlin 2004, Dissention Convention @Postmaster Gallery New York 2004, 
Arte Nuevo InteractivA Mexico 2005, Radical Software @Turin Italy 2006, 
DIWO @ the HTTP Gallery London 2007, New Media Scotland 2008, the Laguna 
Art Museum California + Alternator Gallery Canada 2009, & Federation 
Square Melbourne + Arnolfini Gallery Bristol 2010]. 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 the Executive Editor of the "_Augmentology 
1[L]0[L]1_" project, a Synthetic Ecology Strategist, Reality Engineer 
and Game Theorist who practices _Poetic Game Interventions_ [the 
creative manipulation of MMO parameters in order to disrupt or comment 
on various aspects of augmented states]. http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker

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