"A good example of creative misuse of Web 2.0 is this blog/poem by artist Mez...The artist has creatively used the snap link previewer, a new little gizmo that you can install free on your site (the company in return collects data on who links to what etc) to augment the poetry."

-bina-93

"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

"Mez (aka Mary-Anne Breeze) ties experimental language to avatar creation and collaborative networking to explore complex and often contested political and social themes. The originality of her approach with its rich integration of the various aspects of her praxis has repercussions beyond aesthetics....Mez's precursors in print fiction include Kathy Acker [among other works, Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless] whose surreal and terrible prose seems to have been semantically dismantled by Mez's more technologically engaged praxis. Both stretch language and genre until only thin tendrils of reference to mainstream literature remain. These thin tendrils are even more nebulous in Mez's case, since she distributes her work, and indeed, shares "ownership" of her work, in ways that exist beyond the scope of the capitalist print fiction industry."

-Language rules by Geniwate

"I only consistently read 4 Aussie poets - Jack Tranter, mez breeze, Sam Byfield [for eg] and I qualify this group as some of the greatest poetry being written today... [Australia] to me [is] a land steeped in Literature, writing English – but the break-throughs have been only recent – mez breeze’s work, fx – here’s a poet who has taken the notion of ‘communication’ in poetry to its extreme – ...she is in the midst of creating poetry anew..."

-William Fairbrother in The Critical Poet

"On 4/16, Snap...introduce[s] a major upgrade to Snap Preview Anywhere that was inspired in no small part by Mez’s use of link previews to illustrate text, rather than using links to send people away." [peter angles, market director, snap.com]"

"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

"Mez's ID.xorcism, written in her by now famous "mezangelle" language shows us one more time the possibility to use the Net as a non-linear reading tool and that coding can be artistically and culturally oriented, through its creative re-interpretation. _ID.Xorcism_ is a project that flows in front of us, and we have to run after it without the possibility to "own it", a rapid creative flux that goes beyond, "passes us", exactly when we try to stop it to understand it.....A seductive game made of many multiple cyborgs.
_ID.Xorcism_ is a playful experiment too. It's about the idea of identity as fixed, unique and unchanging, that is neutralized (Identity.eXorcism?) in many other possible ways of appearing more fluid and displaced, more sensuous, slippery and mirror of our time."

- Tatiana Bazzichelli, jury member of 2006 Site Specific Award.