A short interview with ][mez][

A few question to  ][mez][

>1- what is your background ?

i'm interested in experimentation generally, which x.plains my
extensive word mangling [aka the infused _mezangelle_ language that
crosses code with ascii & then projects this thru a networked-based
chatpoesis convention-blender].

my background bio reads like this:

"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, CTHEORY's Digital Dirt, ISEA_97
Chicago USA, ARS Electronica_97, The Metropolitan Museum Tokyo Japan,
SIGGRAPH_99&00, _Under_Score_ @ The Brooklyn Academy of Music USA 01,
+playengines+ Melbourne Australia 03, p0es1s Berlin Germany 04,
Dissention Convention @ Postmaster Gallery New York USA 04, Arte
Nuevo InteractivA Yucatan Mexico 05 + in Radical Software @ Turin
Italy 06. Her awards include the 2001 VIF Prize by the
Humboldt-Universitat, the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001, 2002
Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize and a highly commended in the 2006
Artifical A.Gender Online Exhibition Competition.
She was also a finalist for the 2001 Electronic Literature Organizations Fiction
Award, 2002 READ_ME Artistic Software Award and the Ngara New Media
Poetry Prize 2004.


>2 - tell me more about your work
>when do you create?
>where do you find your inspiration?
>who influences your work?
>who supports your work?

1stly, i'll just give you a brief run-down of
mezangelle....mezangelled texts r produced & trans.lated in2 a
variety of lvls, each coded within their own meaning trajectories.....t

sometimes i'll wurk x.clusively within email editors 2 create a
mezangelled piece, which i'll then send out & hope 4 co-collaborators
2 contribute 2 it....other times i'll send a direct englishpoetic
translation of the mezangelled text straight after....& then i can
even merge these 2 in a more multimediacinteractive format..... ppl
can then choose 2 utilize their own personal cues/x.traction
abilities according 2 the form that is more appropriate [ie email
text or translated poetic text or even flash if i mutate it that
far]..............i'll b.gin with the initial concept which may
spring from lines of textcode that i've been noting in separate
email-editor files...then the structure usually m.merges from this,
via a method of appropriation [ie mimicking of a international relay
chat transcript or actually using 1 that i may have participated in,
or a stretch of stylistically (or executably) -breathtaking
code]..........

.... i use the net 2 cast code/net.wurks [ie works utilizing the grit
& grain of the network & the computer code that underlies it], the
link between "reality" [geophysicality] + the virtual is both
meaningful [in terms of a type of cross-pollination of the 'real"
leeching in2 my practice] + cursory....[4 eg the avatars/ID labels i
use may have only the most tentative of connections with my
geophysically-defined self....these identity tags signify a
substantial change in the informational/data flow & can be utilized
by a readerabsorb.her as a way of dealing with the meaning loadings
involved in any given wurk-phase]....[for instance, several
net.wurked pieces of mine came with the identifier tag of
_app][lick.ation][end.ag_....this unpacks/translates in2 the
taglabels of  _appendage_, app [abbreviation for application] end,
_app.lick.ation_ etc - all avataresque names indicating segmented
x.pressive allusions - that when taken in tandem with the code.wurks
sent 2 various mailing lists, give clues to the way the wurks
should/could be interpreted]...........

in general, before attempting to create a more "multimedia" oriented
work [ie like the final incarnation of _][ad][Dressed in a Skin
C.ode_] i always create smaller, more net-directed pieces which i
term either net.wurks or code.works. these largely text/code based
pieces are constructed using the hybrid code/poetic dynamic
[language] entitled mezangelle which is constructed via a mixture of
code splicing [ie fragments of programming language-shards - mostly
Perl - + operating system & email formats, tree/directory-structures
+ wildcard references, booleanisms, unix shell commands, html + java
script conventions and ascii] and parsed poetic language including
repeated allusions 2 hyperlinks via bracketing of meanings and word
splicing.


>4- tell me about your projects for the future.

....my language use is a ][crucial][ by-product of responding 2 data
fluctuations swirling thru the niche of the net which i
n.habit.....my future wurks with use these strands of reoccurring
infomatics, or occurrences involving surrounding  n.tities in wotever
format presents itself 2 me @ the time...my current obsession is
concedptual fodder from MMORPGS......the selection of incidents &
stylistics vary according 2 which programmer languagesnet.scripting
formulasnet.tendrils i'm manipulatingapingabsorbingx.posing.

>thank you very much


thank u!

][mez][


_thick.memoir.cableing.nost[neur]algia.bloody_
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker/

][mez][ partecipate at share 2006 in Turin with her work

_[net]blog to log][ah!rhythm][_, 2006 -
http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker/


and she also joined the online project gallery 2006
with the work  
_ID.xorcism_

description:_de.sire.blandishments_ in xy + xy c.u[(s)pt]ps_ 
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/xor/xor.html