ID.xorcism

Mez

Artist Statement

_de.sire.blandishments_ in xy + xy c.u[(s)p|t]ps_

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Biography

MEZ [Mary-Anne Breeze] is an international net.wurker and avataristic author of the networked "mezangelle" system. She has exhibited extensively since the early 90s [eg Wollongong World Women Online 1995, CTHEORY's Digital Dirt, ISEA_97 Chicago, ARS Electronica_97, SIGGRAPH_99&00, _Under_Score_ @ The Brooklyn Academy of Music 01, +playengines+ Melbourne 03, Art of the BioTec Era Adelaide 04, p0es1s Berlin 04 + Arte Nuevo InteractivA '05].

Mez is also an online journalist [e.g see Metamute, The Journal of Digital Information, CyberSociology Magazine, fineArt Forum, and Furtherfield Critique 05], co-moderator of the _arc.hive_ experimental mailing list and operates as an occasional curator and lecturer in Net/Codeworking. Her awards include the 2001 VIF Prize by the Humboldt-Universitat, the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001, and the 2002 Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize. 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.

More work can be found at http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker.