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The
Data Bleeding Texts _The
Data][h!][bleeding T.ex][e][ts_ _The
Data][h!][bleeding T.ex][e][ts_ r remnants from email performances
d-voted to the dispersal of writing that has been n.spired and
mutated according 2 the dynamics of an active network. .
some of The Texts are presented via a flash3 format, which require
the flash plugin. go here if you haven't already got a flash plugin
installed. Please do not use netscape 6 to view these texts. also,
have the sound turned up! .the
texts that have been chosen 4 n.clusion r only a very small portion
of a large body of my online work that has been evolving over a
period of 6 years. this work reworks many of my email list texts
archived @ the mo[ve.men]tion site. .be
a][h!][ware that the texts make use of the polysemic language/code
system termed _mezangelle_, which evolved/s from multifarious email
exchanges, computer code re:appropriation
and net iconographs. to _mezangelle_
means to take words/wordstrings/sentences and alter them in
such a way as to extend and enhance meaning beyond the predicted or
the expected. it's similar to making "plain" text
hypertextual via the arrangement and dissection of words &
n.sertion of symbolic and actual code manipulation. the use of
fragments like programming language-shards & operating system
echos - such as ][knit 1][Pearl][2][ tree-structures, wildcard refs,
booleanisms, unix shell commands, bare html conventions,
ascii][esque][ tracks [as well as the repeated allusions 2
hyperlinks and html code via bracketing & directory slashings] -
all act 2 illustrate the x.pansion of software potentialities of
co:d][iscours][e in an environment x.clusively reliant on it.
mezangelling attempts to expand traditional text parameters through
layered/alternative meanings embedded in languages and the codes
that create them, with notions of language play, software
n.vocations and identity swapping being the key to comprehension;
various fiction avatars have been used in the construction of these
texts, & they shift through many incarnations such as
data[h!]bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.exe, ova.kill,
net.w][ho][urker, Purrsonal Areah Netwurker, etc. the real-life
author is mez ][mary-anne breeze][. As
florian cramer says: "The beauty of "mezangelle" is
that it uses elements of programming language syntax as material,
i.e. reflecting formal programming language without being one. For
the reader of mez's "netwurks", it remains all the more an
open question whether the "mezangelle" para-code of
parentheses and wildcard characters only mimics programming
languages or is, at least partially, the product of programmed text
filtering.". Jim Andrews asserts that: "The term 'code
poetry' has been used in connection with Mez's writing…as in using
the devices often found in computer languages (like deep bracketing)
and applying them meaningfully to natural language. These devices,
in computer languages, are often used to represent data structures
in code (like trees or other 'graphs') and also manage processes on
these data structures (like insertion/deletion/tree balancing). Mez
takes these ways of representing often non-linear structures and
introducing/managing process in these structures and
applies/deranges them in natural language--there is little computer
language in her work. Like the text contains its own neath
text." les schaffer's take on mezangelle is "mez's style
is just the most delightful play on coding.
I think of her as a cross between James Joyce and...Larry
Wall - author of the Perl programming language and a linguist by
training.....". Finally Talan Memmott says: "Mez's essay
and method indicates an awareness of the hyper-status of inscription
and document as they apply to the Internet...Brackets and
alternative spellings interrupt the transmission as the process
overcodes and reveals polysemic potentialities within the primary
message." Website: http://netwurkerz.de/mez/datableed/complete
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