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BIO
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." (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 [eg 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]. 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 a Synthetic Ecology Strategist, Futurist and Game Theorist who practices _Poetic Game Interventions_ [the creative manipulation of MMO parameters in order to disrupt or comment on various aspects of augmented states].
http://unhub.com/netwurker/
http://unhub.com/netwurker/
Re: Naked Code
Quoting Jason Van Anden <jason@smileproject.com>:
> A: Am I to assume this same logic is what compels you to use your "own"
> language to express your "self"? Does an author who uses words created
> communally by his culture not have the right to own his story? Am I
> generalizing again?
>
> j
>
j,
....am more.than.happy.2.chat. re:_self_x.pression.motivators + logic _after_ an
actual response 2 my ini.[*]ial Q.....am x.tremely curious as 2 how u
n.ternalise ur code.ownership claim[s] whilst m.ploying programming languages
not.developed.by.ur.own.self.
chunks,
][mez][
> A: Am I to assume this same logic is what compels you to use your "own"
> language to express your "self"? Does an author who uses words created
> communally by his culture not have the right to own his story? Am I
> generalizing again?
>
> j
>
j,
....am more.than.happy.2.chat. re:_self_x.pression.motivators + logic _after_ an
actual response 2 my ini.[*]ial Q.....am x.tremely curious as 2 how u
n.ternalise ur code.ownership claim[s] whilst m.ploying programming languages
not.developed.by.ur.own.self.
chunks,
][mez][
Re: Naked Code
> From mez and jeremy's posts I gather that if I prefer not to expose my code
> I am either incredibly selfish or insecure. That the artist who chooses to
> create art that requires programming has the added responsibility to the
> community of sharing your code - and that if you are unwilling to comply you
> should be disqualified from receiving funding.
--qs break.down--re:guard.ing.my."assessment":
Q: how du u n.tegrate the use of communally.disseminated.n.structive.data [ie
using a programming language not constructed.by.u with functions not.structured
by u] with ur need 2 own.ur.own.code?
A: <n.sert here pls>
> I am either incredibly selfish or insecure. That the artist who chooses to
> create art that requires programming has the added responsibility to the
> community of sharing your code - and that if you are unwilling to comply you
> should be disqualified from receiving funding.
--qs break.down--re:guard.ing.my."assessment":
Q: how du u n.tegrate the use of communally.disseminated.n.structive.data [ie
using a programming language not constructed.by.u with functions not.structured
by u] with ur need 2 own.ur.own.code?
A: <n.sert here pls>
Re: Naked Code
Quoting Jason Van Anden <jason@smileproject.com>:
> Here are some cost/benefit analysis thoughts on the subject:
>
> 1.) Overhead: aka documenting the code. As Jim Andrews points out, open
> source is only useful to others if the code is legible and well documented -
> which requires extra effort on its creator's behalf. This is work. Perhaps
> its selfish - but golly, what a drag.
n.credibly disappointing.orientation.
[u.r.discoun.ting(le): slip.pages+uberness.of.the _accident[all.code]]
> 2.) What is the benefit to the artist? Is it a good thing to enable others
> to easily create derivative works based upon your labors? Am I being funded
> to be a teacher or an artist?
ur.share.share.ethic:OFF.
[such.high.individualisationism.is.unattractive+des.truc(k.in.acollaborative.china.shoppe)tive]
[artistic.n.deavours.may.be.n.structive//share_trajectoried]
[cultural.stances.rn't.formed.thru.the.cult.of.the."i"]
> 3.) My code is my code. I love my code - I mean love it. I like to tinker
> with it, play with it, do whatever I please with it. What if I don't want
> to share it? Its mine. As far as I am concerned - I share the output - the
> process belongs to me. (For the record, I have made some of my code publicly
> available - not that anyone was really that interested).
"I" "I" "I"
_such.ego.manifestering.reduces.collaborative.input+any.adjusting.2.non-capitalistick-tocking_
how.do.u.learn.thru.such.self.glorification.parameters?
> These are mostly personal - but so is making art.
+ the output of making.art? is it just for u alone?
>Why is new media
> different? I am not sure that because we create using a readable language
> it should be a requirement that we share it.
so sad this obsession with ownership. cutting of the collective
hands.2.smite.the.code.face.
hi-lights.political.fascistic.ends.seeded.in.greedy.liberalism.
just.....*sigh*
> Is the art not enough?
Is ur ego just.2.much?
non-I'ingly,
][mez][
> Here are some cost/benefit analysis thoughts on the subject:
>
> 1.) Overhead: aka documenting the code. As Jim Andrews points out, open
> source is only useful to others if the code is legible and well documented -
> which requires extra effort on its creator's behalf. This is work. Perhaps
> its selfish - but golly, what a drag.
n.credibly disappointing.orientation.
[u.r.discoun.ting(le): slip.pages+uberness.of.the _accident[all.code]]
> 2.) What is the benefit to the artist? Is it a good thing to enable others
> to easily create derivative works based upon your labors? Am I being funded
> to be a teacher or an artist?
ur.share.share.ethic:OFF.
[such.high.individualisationism.is.unattractive+des.truc(k.in.acollaborative.china.shoppe)tive]
[artistic.n.deavours.may.be.n.structive//share_trajectoried]
[cultural.stances.rn't.formed.thru.the.cult.of.the."i"]
> 3.) My code is my code. I love my code - I mean love it. I like to tinker
> with it, play with it, do whatever I please with it. What if I don't want
> to share it? Its mine. As far as I am concerned - I share the output - the
> process belongs to me. (For the record, I have made some of my code publicly
> available - not that anyone was really that interested).
"I" "I" "I"
_such.ego.manifestering.reduces.collaborative.input+any.adjusting.2.non-capitalistick-tocking_
how.do.u.learn.thru.such.self.glorification.parameters?
> These are mostly personal - but so is making art.
+ the output of making.art? is it just for u alone?
>Why is new media
> different? I am not sure that because we create using a readable language
> it should be a requirement that we share it.
so sad this obsession with ownership. cutting of the collective
hands.2.smite.the.code.face.
hi-lights.political.fascistic.ends.seeded.in.greedy.liberalism.
just.....*sigh*
> Is the art not enough?
Is ur ego just.2.much?
non-I'ingly,
][mez][
Fwd: [iDC] The Social Machine of Events
>
>Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:04:17 -0500
>From: Trebor Scholz <trebor@thing.net>
>To: IDC list <idc@bbs.thing.net>
>
>
>Event organizing. Over the past year many experiments with conferencing
>formats took place. They were aimed at escaping the same old
>predicaments. People are fed up with the orthodoxy of traditional,
>hierarchical proceedings of keynote speakers, panels, and unconcentrated
>topical orientation! There is the soporific style of delivering a
>30-page paper to an audience that could have read this text online
>beforehand. Paperism! There is the work-shy re-inscription of yet the
>same players of the virtual intelligentsia over and over again! Peeps
>and masters! Why look at proposals of the
>Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:04:17 -0500
>From: Trebor Scholz <trebor@thing.net>
>To: IDC list <idc@bbs.thing.net>
>
>
>Event organizing. Over the past year many experiments with conferencing
>formats took place. They were aimed at escaping the same old
>predicaments. People are fed up with the orthodoxy of traditional,
>hierarchical proceedings of keynote speakers, panels, and unconcentrated
>topical orientation! There is the soporific style of delivering a
>30-page paper to an audience that could have read this text online
>beforehand. Paperism! There is the work-shy re-inscription of yet the
>same players of the virtual intelligentsia over and over again! Peeps
>and masters! Why look at proposals of the
_nation.state[ments.ripping.speciation.a.new.one]_
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_scratch_p.ad[d]_b[n]oob.manga_ 08:09pm 30/01/2006
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/no.obs.lapping.happying
#n(l)ew(d)bie.slapping_vs_no.observational.l[m]apping#
[gamer.code.on]
/l[ooking]f[4]g[r(and{y})ou(nd.u)p]
#s/he(bie.jeebies)ep.para[normal](behaviour)meter[run.nings]#
[crust.gender+ thrust.g.eek.concret"isms".all.over.the.3d.place]
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emo.tonal.m[l]a(yhap)tch------x-----t[coping]riguer.set.syn[er.jism]aptic
______-subset: coping.set.triggers.*may[hap]*.bond.synaptically
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[insert: trauma.mech(ic)an(ery) *ism]
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r.igor*tremor*lip
[audio.s({t}onic)mattering.precurs[or.ton]ed
hea[r(eal)t(ime)]d*sonar*b[h]ound[s.of.+.off.luv]
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[same.page.observance: affective.management.reaction]
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*broad.stroking.stone[d].chip.t[eche]wins.+.flint.pers[bl]o[oD]NA[s]
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eye.ste[e]al*soul*leak*smash
lever.bond.thru.c[elegant.t]ryst.al.blast.strength
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_cog. fly.knit.wheel.seep.ages_ 06:31am 17/01/2006
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_the[h]o[a]ry.skinning + [bric.oh.]large.seepage_
_BAN vs PAN vs GAN_
...................Body Area Networking: coded meat structur[h]ing[es]
...................Personal Area Networking: sucker.identity.punching
...................Genetic Area Networking: rna.helix.[sche]dueling
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_predation\predator.intro_ 06:10am 11/01/2006
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#predator.inject [breakage.with.traditional.other.species.pred(n)ation]#
homo-sapien_rewriting.darwin.clean_slate.coding_
nation.state[ments.ripping.speciation.a.new.one]
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_thick.memoir.cableing.nost[||neur]algia.bloody_
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker/
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_scratch_p.ad[d]_b[n]oob.manga_ 08:09pm 30/01/2006
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/no.obs.lapping.happying
#n(l)ew(d)bie.slapping_vs_no.observational.l[m]apping#
[gamer.code.on]
/l[ooking]f[4]g[r(and{y})ou(nd.u)p]
#s/he(bie.jeebies)ep.para[normal](behaviour)meter[run.nings]#
[crust.gender+ thrust.g.eek.concret"isms".all.over.the.3d.place]
--
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_trigger.se{chi}t[t{er}ing(Ls)]_ 05:23pm 23/01/2006
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emo.tonal.m[l]a(yhap)tch------x-----t[coping]riguer.set.syn[er.jism]aptic
______-subset: coping.set.triggers.*may[hap]*.bond.synaptically
--
[insert: trauma.mech(ic)an(ery) *ism]
--
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*
r.igor*tremor*lip
[audio.s({t}onic)mattering.precurs[or.ton]ed
hea[r(eal)t(ime)]d*sonar*b[h]ound[s.of.+.off.luv]
*
--
[same.page.observance: affective.management.reaction]
--
*
*broad.stroking.stone[d].chip.t[eche]wins.+.flint.pers[bl]o[oD]NA[s]
*
*
eye.ste[e]al*soul*leak*smash
lever.bond.thru.c[elegant.t]ryst.al.blast.strength
--
____________________-do.knot.[due|al]cr.os.s.-xx
x
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_cog. fly.knit.wheel.seep.ages_ 06:31am 17/01/2006
_______________________________________________
_the[h]o[a]ry.skinning + [bric.oh.]large.seepage_
_BAN vs PAN vs GAN_
...................Body Area Networking: coded meat structur[h]ing[es]
...................Personal Area Networking: sucker.identity.punching
...................Genetic Area Networking: rna.helix.[sche]dueling
-
-
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_predation\predator.intro_ 06:10am 11/01/2006
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#predator.inject [breakage.with.traditional.other.species.pred(n)ation]#
homo-sapien_rewriting.darwin.clean_slate.coding_
nation.state[ments.ripping.speciation.a.new.one]
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_thick.memoir.cableing.nost[||neur]algia.bloody_
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker/
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