"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 http://knott404.blogspot.com/." (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. Select venues include: 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 and Federation Square Melbourne 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 Gamer Theorist who practices _Poetic Game Interventions_ [the creative manipulation of MMO parameters in order to disrupt or comment on various aspects of augmented states].

1. current fictionesque wurk:

a) _cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][_ is "netwurk repository" that's been in operation since 2003. these "wurks" r inscribed using the infamous polysemic language system termed _mezangelle_. this language evolved/s from multifarious email exchanges, computer code flavoured language + net iconographs. 2 _mezangelle_ means 2 take words>wordstrings>sentences + alter them in such a way as 2 /x/tend + /n/hance meaning beyond the predicted +/or /x/pected. _mezangelling_ @tempts 2 /x/pand traditional text parameters thru layered/alternative/code based meanings /m/bedded in2 meta-phonetic renderings of language. _cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][ /m/ploys a base standard of code>txt in order 2 evoke imaginative renderings rather than motion-based>flashy graphics.

b) another of my current creative projs is _feralC_: an ARG "socumentary" consisting of faux.social_networking [profiles/elements] that follows [in a mocumentary-type fashion] /n/tities who rewrite previously held assumptions regarding basic human psychological/linguistic functioning via their communication output. the proj was originally slated 4 construction back in 2006: due 2 copyright concerns>hiccups from the [then] commissioning organisation the project wasn't realised as intended. in _feralC_'s present incarnation, the underlying motivations of the project involves the fracturing of identity perceptions [ie the individual as geocentric>as text-immersed>as functioning through non_geophysically based social_networks] 2 allow for a reassessment of definitions of identity>self. the project mechanics center around multiple synthetically_dependent "chars" [characters] who begin 2 "narrative-act" via threaded social connections._feralC_ is commissioned by Arnolfini + goes live May 2010.

In development: a set of "phrasings" [Transformational Articles Sets] that weave the idea of "The Geonormative": a re-conceptualisation> expansion of the _Virtuality Continuum_ towards a _Presence Co-ordinate System_.

The development of the concept of _Synthetics_ is crucial to this system [working extract]: "Synthetics are not virtual representations of "real" people: instead, they are reality-gradated presences that fluctuate in a Presence Coordinate System that spans the virtual and the phenomenologically "real". Synthetics allow for identity formation that utilizes projective structures [avatars, game characters, social networking profiling] to create variable personality constructs. These personality constructs may align closely with a Geonormative/Geotypical manifestation [ie similar to the top-level entity that inhabits the character/virtual body] or may only glancingly resemble the "actual [real]" person. Geonormatives/Geotypicals are entities who believe all human [social] interactions must use a geophysical presence as a standardised baseline. An example: entities who manifest physically in a geographical location can be defined as "real" [Geotypicals] as opposed to those who define their "realness" through a stratified set of consciousness and action[s]/behaviours sets that manifest only in a synthetic plane [Synthetics]...".

These Transformational Articles Sets are to be published at ebr and _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ [August 2010] under a creative-commons license.