mezangelle

“Internal Damage Data” uses the structure of a multiple choice questionnaire for self assessment of internal damage to shape the first part of the poem. For each question, Mez uses option C (maybe, unsure, other…) to develop her poem, seeking to transcend the traditional yes/no binaries in such questionnaires. In the part depicted above, she uses algorithms to structure her poem: using the logic and language of programming to guide the reader’s experience of the poem.

[From the "I Love EPoetry" “Internal Damage Data” and “Fleshis.tics” by Mez Breeze Entry.]

#PRISOM is a Synthetic Reality Game where a player is set loose in a Glass City under infinite surveillance. It is designed to encourage players to ponder the increasing global adoption of PRISM-like surveillance technology. Every one of the “#WhatDoYouDo” scenarios that you’ll encounter when playing the game stem from real-life scenarios, including the ongoing unconstitutional treatment and [in some cases] incarceration of those keen to expose the nature of heavily surveilled and overtly monitored societies

Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 10:22:47 +1100
From: mez
Subject: term.i.nation net.wurk[er] (gmx)

/M strength & f.lesh[ion]ed
/trans *.itive + w[k]eep.ing
/string lac[x].tos[s]ing + poi.son.ed

/pet (com) .itive
/pe[a]t (hevy) (primo leviesque)
[a (s)p(r)ock.et full of sX.pense]

||tilting border(lined)s + wilting g(r)amma.t[id]olatry||
||[st]itching limb[ic system]s in c[d]o(g)ursing pro.grammes
||p.lum[i.nous]met + kah.quay n.gorged

*** Con.nec[ks + throats of blood-gold]ting[les] 2 101.101.1.101 (666)
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*** Un[lye]able 2 re.sa[l]ve (g)lo(b).c.al host
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*** Can.cell[s + market .genes](is.)ed connect

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#Carnivast is an interactive electronic literature application for desktop computers and Android devices that explores code poetry as a series of beautiful and complex 3D shapes and textures.

“Clone-ing God & Ange-Lz” is graphical and scheduled in its presentation, transforming language and images in over time in ways that subvert traditional ways of portraying such figures. Short sound loops, animated images, and animated images of text with formatting and language changes enhance her mezangelle language practice with visual information, as can be seen in words like “prayah” (emphasis added 2.high[lite] the you.z of Y.t tXt in “ah”). (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

This guest performance in the New Media Scotland Twitter account during her residency in July 2008 featured a daily tweet for each day of the month— making a sequence of 31 silky lines mezangelle.

_Twitterwurking_comprised of sequential “tweets” posted via a microblogging platform called Twitter. The work itself was written in my mezangelle language- a type of merging of programming languages/code with poetic elements. The Twitterwurk sought to incorporate specific users into the narrative by typing the “@” symbol before their name. The users were then made aware of this focused reply and thus deliberately enfolded into the tweetstream/project.

Quoted from I ♥ E-Poetry and "_Twitterwurking_" documentation.