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"the data][h!][bleeding texts" by Mez Breeze

November 12, 2012
This multimedia poem gives a voice to a body and mind imagined through computational conditions. Mary Anne Breeze / Mez / Netwurker has developed a language practice known as mezangelle, which she uses in this poem to create a cyborg lyric voice. The implied metaphor in the title is that data has a body and it is bleeding, perhaps it has been wounded. Mapped onto electronic texts, the displayed texts are the skin, while the code is the rest of the body, including the blood. What we read is a combination of computer and natural languages, both of which are executable. image The animated text in “WEAP.ON,” for example, visually and temporally underscores the variant ways of reading the words with and within brackets.

Featured in Cauldron & Net.
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Entry by: Leonardo Flores
Categories: 2001, 2002, Cauldron & Net, e-poetry, Entries, Flash, HTML, javascript, kinetic, poetry, responsive, scheduled, static, 2001, 2002
Author(s): Mez Breeze

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