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— Saito (@SaitoGroup) July 10, 2015

[On"Human Readable Messages"] "[A] classic...A sea of linguistic invention: unsurpassed technical innovation in terms of print language. Reading the various passages for the first time I felt I was privy to a new form of expression not merely a creole or amalgam, something really new. Mez is brilliant." - Michael J. Maguire

"One of this week’s readings is a very strange looking piece by a writer called “Mez”, which utilizes the language and typography of ‘code’ to make its point about the potential differences between online and print forms...Mez’s website contains some examples of her work and details of the language she calls _mezangelle_ and which contains elements of email code, HTML and other more sophisticated programming languages."

- From: HAM422 - A group blog on creative writing and new media

"I'll see the Neuromancer movie if and only if
][mez][ writes the screenplay."

-RUR on the William Gibson forums, Posted May 24, 2007 07:50 PM

"As you can see, the code-snippet only shows previews to linked pages on other domains. So Mez created a quick-and-easy blog dis[ap]posable, put up a few technically very simple HTML pages on another server, and linked to them from her poem. Ta-da: instantly a new genre is born.....there's something about taking disposable, ready-made, super-easy bits and pieces and putting them together as Mez has done that's just really fascinating. Yes, you can do that. Very simply. And by putting the link preview thing to a purpose other than its intended purpose (as Duchamp did with his pissoir) Mez has me seeing it all anew." - Jill Walker on jill/txt

"How often have you expectantly visited a so called "innovative, new media" website with its tags of "highly interactive and engaging content" only to find that its creator's idea of interactivity is to force-feed the user a new page of information every time they click a "next page" button? This is definitely not the case with Australian net artist (net.artist) Mez's recent venture into the realm of the hypertextual with her _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_, a captivating anthology of non-linear literary works distributed through email lists.

In the creation of texts and poetic forms, Mez utilises her unique "mezangelle" language which appropriates features of code and programming syntax then combines these with plays on symbols and language to alter or enhance meanings. Upon initial contact with "mezangelle," many viewers may find it unsettling due to its ambiguous punctuation, abstract grammar, syllabic dissection and the subsequent slowed reading speed. However, once whatever original discomfort is overcome, the ingenuity of the "mezangelle" language as a literary technique or device really starts to assert itself. It allows Mez to extend her work beyond the boundaries of more conventional literary mediums and coaxes the viewer to construct new meanings for themselves of what it is they're engaging with on screen.

The works (net.wurks) contained within _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_ can be viewed as either singular texts, or as enhanced (n.hanced) works which utilise JavaScript and Flash to extend the user's conceptualisations even further. Rollovers and segments of audio are also effectively implemented within these enhanced works, with the sound samples used having at times a grating, yet organic quality about them which can be quite unnerving.

Originally, the navigation and interface design of _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_ may be fairly confusing and unorthodox (particularly the difficult to read fonts and the directory of enhanced texts, with its arrays of what appear to be linked buttons), until it is realised that Mez has not set out to create a site that conforms to usability guidelines and commercially driven ideologies. This is a site that allows the user parallel or simultaneous understandings of the content, while instigating "non-linear and imaginative order" into the vocabulary of electronic communication.

Mez's _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_ is an excellent example of the notion of web "spaces" as opposed to web pages and through the use of the "mezangelle" language system and syntax, it is a highly thought-provoking and stimulating collection of textual works. Intended to expand and extract upon a user's perceptions and conceptualisations, these works will leave you feeling somewhat enlightened and enriched by their required level of comprehension and engagement."

- Scott Esdaile, fine Arts forum.

"...jodi's work is good _because_ jodi have the code under control, just as mez is an _author_, machine-aided, style-enhanced...just as antiorp/nn [is] the most collaborative entity in the series....they exhibit a clear sense of ideological tightness and closure."

- Andreas Broeckmann

"Mez's mezangelle language, conceived in cyberspace, is now being noticed globally - even the traditional print based poetry community is becoming aware of mezangelle as a new literary device, and if not new, certainly an extension of the last big phenomenon of poetry, parataxis within lines of poetry as characterised by the work of the language poets in the 1970s and 1980s and which now permeates to mainstream poetry.

As such it is difficult to read. I resisted for many months, hitting the delete button each time I'd see a mez post....but I allowed myself the space to receive this text, purely by her persistence, wondering if i'd hit the delete button one too many times, and I found my way in to her work.

Equally important as the mezangelle language has been the method of collection of the texts, the method of generation of the texts, and the collaborative aspect of the work. This is inseparable from the work itself, and totally exposed out there, poetry in the act of being made - the process becomes equally as important as the product."

-komninos zervos, Lecturer in poetry and cyber studies, Griffith University.

"The mysterious Mez is a netizen who, rumor has it, lives in Wollongong Australia, but whose presence is felt world wide via her e-mails to various web art and culture lists, and her remixes of these e-mails (along with additional text) into literary works in web form. Mez's style, which makes liberal use of square brackets and other punctuation to divide words at their linguistic joints and offer multiple possible recombinations, is more than just superficial strangeness. Her years of practice at the keyboard (I have read her chat that she averages something like six hours a day in e-mail and other networked writing) have developed her into a deeply skilled stylist with a unique and intelligent relationship to written language......

Mez's writing rips out of the screen from the first instant and never looks back. It is a refreshing reminder that we are free to forego the tired preambles and summaries and careful tropes and conventional scaffolding of writing and plunge right into the beautiful, awful heart of language --- the way we do in our most intimate e-mails and most secret journals. Mez's writing earns the highest accolade from other writers --- imitation. Mez's style (she calls it Mezangelle) is infectious, and it would be no surprise to see it attract other practitioners, in the same way that music styles (Reggae, Techno) gather adherents and become movements."

- Rob Wittig's curatorial statement in START HERE> An exhibition of electronic literature curated by 7 Chicago electronic writers and digital artists for the Version>02 Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

" 'Sky Scratchez' is a collaboration between Mez and myself...

The writing (as in words) is almost exclusive Mez's. (with the exception of
a few pop-up segments of my own, which are commentary [of a sort] on Mez's writing... )

The functionality and the design of the piece is almost exclusively mine, though heavily inspired by my reading of Mez's 'sky scratchez' words."

-Talan Memmott, Beehive