Mez Breeze

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Mez Breeze is an Australian-based artist who works with net.art. She is considered one of the best innovative artists working in new media.

1 Biography
2 Gaming Research
3 Mezangelle
4 Sites about Mez Breeze
5 Notes

[edit] Biography

Mez Breeze was born Mary-Anne Breeze. She has many other nicknames as well. These nicknames are known as avatars. They include the following: mz post modemism, mezchine, ms Tech.no.whore, flesque, e- mauler, Netwurker Twin, Gossama, and mezflesque.exe.^[1] She received degrees in both Applied Social Science [Psychology] at the Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia in 1991 and Creative Arts at the Wollongong University in Australia in 2001. In 1994, she received a diploma in Fine Arts at the Illawarra Institute of Technology, Arts and Media Campus in Australia. She creates code poetry and is a Futurist.^[2]^[3] She explores environments that involve online socializations or encounters. Such encounters involves the modification of online gaming environments such as World of Warcraft, EVE Online, and Second Life. Some other online encounters involve social networking and alternate gaming software such as Facebook, Passively Multimedia Online Game (PMOG), and Twitter. The texts or jargon produced during these encounters are what drove Mez to create her type of net poetry.^[4] She has won several awards including the "JavaArtist of the Year 2001"^[5]^[6], the Newcastle Digital Poetry Prize and an Honorary Mention in the read_me 1.2 Software Art Award.^[7]

[edit] Gaming Research

Some of her research on the gaming environment can be found here.

[edit] Mezangelle

Mezangelle is an artistic poetry in the 1990's that has been compared to the works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, E.E. Cummings, and Larry Wall.^[8] It uses Internet text language found in ASCII codes, online games, and other forms of Internet communication.