Author Details
Mez Breeze
Sydney, Australia
Email: netwurker@hotkey.net.au
Web site: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/
Mez Breeze (also known as Mez, Netwurker, traumachine and by other avatars) is an artist familiar both to the Net art and to the hypertext communities, and she has won awards in both fields, including a nomination for the Electronic Literature Organisation's Award in 2001. Her work has been called codework - language art might be another way of describing it. She works in spaces not commonly thought of as spaces for art or literature: in email, mailing lists, MOOs and chat spaces. Her writing is poetic and sometimes fragmentarily narrative, in a language between English and something a computer might write, which she calls Mezangelle.
In her contribution to this issue of JoDI, Inappropriate Format][ing][: Craft-Orientation vs. Networked Content[s], Breeze describes a bias towards works that are not completed and self-contained, which causes many critics and artists to ignore networked art. After describing a project she was involved in herself, she offers a criticism of Talan Memmott's Translucidity in this perspective.