<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>I'm an on-&-off, off-&-on type of Empyre subber [due to e-ether fluctuations + sporadic attn currencies, etc etc]. Some of you will know me from my codeworks + language/bit mangling, and some of you might know me from my literary game output. Some of you might not know of me at all, and for those, here's the official bio-release for the mez-newbs [apologies in advance for the egofied-slant]:<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><br><p style="padding-left:30px">"Mez Breeze crafts boutique <a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/29/a-frissonic-monday-mbd-update-whodathunkit/" target="_blank">digital design</a> including <a href="http://www.writingqueensland.com.au/mez-breeze-on-transmedia-and-gaming-narratives/" target="_blank">transmedia</a>, <a href="http://www.awg.com.au/news-18/latest-news/639-game-writers-on-game-writing-part-1.html" target="_blank">games</a>, graphics, non-fiction, <a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/25/mbd-mid-week-update-happenings-shenanigans/" target="_blank">experimental storytelling</a>, <a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/04/theissue-showing-at-beyond-the-interface/" target="_blank">interactive fiction</a>, and other <a href="http://cordite.org.au/essays/sidestepping-the-known/" target="_blank">genre-defying output</a>. Current and past clients/<a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/18/this-week-at-mbd-digital-fictions-peer-reviewing-publications-reviews/" target="_blank">projects</a> include the <i><a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/09/02/provocare-murderous-feminism-in-liminal-fiction-the-writing-platform/">Queensland Government/Queensland Creative Industries</a></i>, <i>The 2015 Digital Writers’ Festival, <a href="http://www.futureofthebook.org.au/#/a-non-guardian-age/" target="_blank">if:book Australia</a>, The Next Web, WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon </i>(sponsored by <a href="http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/" target="_blank">Blizzard Entertainment</a>)<i>, AppStorm, <a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/12/08/countdown-begins-to-inanimate-alice-the-last-gas-station-beta/" target="_blank">Inanimate Alice</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.thewritingplatform.com/2015/05/the-impacts-of-interactive-storytelling-a-case-study-of-jupiter-ascending/" target="_blank">The Writing Platform</a></i>.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez_Breeze" target="_blank">Mez Breeze</a>
is the Lead Digital Content Creator of Mez Breeze Design. In August
2015, Mez – along with fellow collaborator Andy Campbell – was awarded <a href="http://thespacearts.tumblr.com/post/125921970387/mez-breeze-and-andy-campbell-selected-for-the" target="_blank">the Tumblr International Prize</a> and <a href="http://www.thespace.org/news/view/space-open-call-two" target="_blank">The Space’s “Open Call” Commission</a> for their in-development transmedia project <i><a href="http://allthedelicateduplicat.es/" target="_blank">Pluto</a></i>. When choosing <i>Pluto</i> as the winning work, Danielle Strle, Director of Product for Community and Content at <i>Tumblr, </i>said:<i> “Award</i><span class=""><i>ing
the Tumblr Prize to Mez and Andy is a total honor and we are excited to
be a part of such a thrilling experiment that will foster our continued
support of digital art and media.”</i></span><b><span class=""> </span></b>
</p><p style="padding-left:30px">Mez was also shortlisted for both the <i>2015 Thiel Grant Award for Online Writin</i>g and the 2015 “Games Development” Category of the <i>MCV Pacific Women In Games List</i>, which profiles the:<i> “…most influential women across all facets of the Australian and New Zealand Games Industries.”</i> Her globally-exhibited works reside in
Collections as diverse as The World Bank, Cornell’s Rose Goldsen Archive
at Cornell University, and the National Library of Australia.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px">In 2001, Mez was invited to complete the first Australian Digital Writing/New Media <a href="http://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mez11.jpg" target="_blank">Artist-In-Residency</a> at Wollongong City Gallery, as well as winning the JavaArtist of the Year Award for:<i> “…artists who combine
artistic expression and statements with substantial power, technological
activity, and excellence in sustained work.”</i> In 2002, Mez co-won the Newcastle New
Media Poetry Prize and (in 2006) the Italian Site Specific Design
Competition. In 2010, filmmaker Tim Burton judged her digital project <i>Sk(c)innamon</i> a winner of the “In a Burton Wonderland” Exhibition Competition.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px">Since 2011, Mez Breeze Design has partnered with <i>Dreaming Methods</i> to produce wearable and mobile-oriented projects. Their jointly produced <i><a href="http://prisom.me" target="_blank">#PRISOM</a></i>
is a game designed for Wearable Augmented Reality Displays which was
commissioned for the 2013 International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented
Reality. <i>#PRISOM</i> made the Finals of the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards in the “Digital Narrative” Category.<i> #PRISOM</i> has also been recently showcased at the <a href="http://notgames.colognegamelab.com/exhibition.html" target="_blank">“Not Games Fest”</a>
hosted by the Cologne Game Lab’s Institute for Game Development and
Research at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, and at <a href="http://transitiomx.net/muestra_en.html?Conexion=42" target="_blank"><i>Transitio_MX06</i></a> alongside acclaimed game projects such as <a href="http://www.stanleyparable.com/" target="_blank"><i>The Stanley Parable</i></a>, <a href="http://papersplea.se/" target="_blank"><i>Papers, Please</i></a> and <a href="http://transitiomx.net/muestra_en.html?Conexion=29" target="_blank"><i>Atari-Noise</i></a>.
</p><p style="padding-left:30px">Mez’s networked, interactive and game-based projects are taught worldwide. Her <a href="http://cordite.org.au/essays/sidestepping-the-known/" target="_blank">pioneering</a> <a href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/net.writing" target="_blank">codeworks</a> are <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mez+Breeze%22&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1" target="_blank">discussed and analysed in publications</a> varying from <a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/poetry-unexecutable-code" target="_blank">academic journals</a> to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qC0_AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22The+John+Hopkins+Guide+to+Digital+Media%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM6KeBx8PKAhUBOBoKHclzBrAQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=Mez&f=false">digital handbooks</a>. She was a Founding Contributor at ARGology, the <a href="http://www.argology.org/about/">International Game Developers Association’s Alternate Reality Games SIG</a> providing “…<i>much needed information about alternate reality games for developers, journalists, researchers and players”. </i>She
is currently an Advisor to The Mixed Augmented Reality Art Research
Organisation, a Senior Research Affiliate of The Humanities and Critical
Code Studies Lab, and was a Judge of Bournemouth University’s 2014 New
Media Writing Prize. Mez is also in the process of developing a
comprehensive career archive with Duke University’s Curator Collection
team. This archive (titled <i>“The Mez Breeze Papers”</i>) is to be housed at the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library."</p></div><br></div><br>Chunks,<br></div>Mez<br>--<br><a href="http://mezbreezedesign.com">mezbreezedesign.com</a><br><div><div> <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Renate Terese Ferro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Hello all,<br>
On the 1st of January we opened the empyre discussion board up to invite all of our subscribers to post their recent bio’s and project updates. It has been great to hear from many of you. Today is the last day to make those posts. Hope to hear from more of you.<br>
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> Happy New Year empyre.<br>
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