In the Twitter Stream
by By Linda Carroli

"Mez knows no bounds as she skims the confluence of virtuality, technology and textuality. This morning her status declares that she is "twitter streaming new theory". She sidesteps the monumentality of theory's usual vehicle (the essay) and delivers intermittent compressed moments of sumptuous thoughts in her (in)famous word-wrangling style. This is the first Facebook writing/word experiment I have seen that explores engaging theory in this personalised and self-reflexive way.

"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

"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]"