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][ ][ . .these t.ex][e][ts r _code wurk_ remnants 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 flash format, which require the flash plugin. go here if you haven't already got a flash plugin installed. if u r using netscape 6/6.1/6.2 in order 2 view the t.ex][e][ts, u'll get a strange low-fi version. also, have the sound turned way up. . ][ . .the t.ex][e][ts/code wurks that have been chosen 4 n.clusion r only a very small portion of a large body of online net.wurk that has been ][r][e.volving since 1995. this wurk re.wurks many of my code poems/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.....". .
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