[-empyre-] empyre last call: post your bio and projects: Mez Breeze
mez breeze
netwurker at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 06:23:18 AEDT 2016
Hi All,
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]:
"Mez Breeze crafts boutique digital design
<http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/29/a-frissonic-monday-mbd-update-whodathunkit/>
including transmedia
<http://www.writingqueensland.com.au/mez-breeze-on-transmedia-and-gaming-narratives/>,
games
<http://www.awg.com.au/news-18/latest-news/639-game-writers-on-game-writing-part-1.html>,
graphics, non-fiction, experimental storytelling
<http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/25/mbd-mid-week-update-happenings-shenanigans/>,
interactive fiction
<http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/04/theissue-showing-at-beyond-the-interface/>,
and other genre-defying output
<http://cordite.org.au/essays/sidestepping-the-known/>. Current and past
clients/projects
<http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/06/18/this-week-at-mbd-digital-fictions-peer-reviewing-publications-reviews/>
include the *Queensland Government/Queensland Creative Industries
<http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/09/02/provocare-murderous-feminism-in-liminal-fiction-the-writing-platform/>*,
*The 2015 Digital Writers’ Festival, if:book Australia
<http://www.futureofthebook.org.au/#/a-non-guardian-age/>, The Next Web,
WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon *(sponsored by Blizzard Entertainment
<http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/>)*, AppStorm, Inanimate Alice
<http://mezbreezedesign.com/2015/12/08/countdown-begins-to-inanimate-alice-the-last-gas-station-beta/>*
and *The Writing Platform
<http://www.thewritingplatform.com/2015/05/the-impacts-of-interactive-storytelling-a-case-study-of-jupiter-ascending/>*
.
Mez Breeze <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez_Breeze> is the Lead Digital
Content Creator of Mez Breeze Design. In August 2015, Mez – along with
fellow collaborator Andy Campbell – was awarded the Tumblr International
Prize
<http://thespacearts.tumblr.com/post/125921970387/mez-breeze-and-andy-campbell-selected-for-the>
and The Space’s “Open Call” Commission
<http://www.thespace.org/news/view/space-open-call-two> for their
in-development transmedia project *Pluto
<http://allthedelicateduplicat.es/>*. When choosing *Pluto* as the winning
work, Danielle Strle, Director of Product for Community and Content at *Tumblr,
*said:* “Award**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.”*
Mez was also shortlisted for both the *2015 Thiel Grant Award for Online
Writin*g and the 2015 “Games Development” Category of the *MCV Pacific
Women In Games List*, which profiles the:* “…most influential women across
all facets of the Australian and New Zealand Games Industries.”* 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.
In 2001, Mez was invited to complete the first Australian Digital
Writing/New Media Artist-In-Residency
<http://cordite.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mez11.jpg> at Wollongong
City Gallery, as well as winning the JavaArtist of the Year Award for:*
“…artists who combine artistic expression and statements with substantial
power, technological activity, and excellence in sustained work.”* 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 *Sk(c)innamon* a winner of the “In a Burton Wonderland”
Exhibition Competition.
Since 2011, Mez Breeze Design has partnered with *Dreaming Methods* to
produce wearable and mobile-oriented projects. Their jointly produced *#PRISOM
<http://prisom.me>* is a game designed for Wearable Augmented Reality
Displays which was commissioned for the 2013 International Symposium on
Mixed and Augmented Reality. *#PRISOM* made the Finals of the 2014 Western
Australian Premier’s Book Awards in the “Digital Narrative” Category.*
#PRISOM* has also been recently showcased at the “Not Games Fest”
<http://notgames.colognegamelab.com/exhibition.html> hosted by the Cologne
Game Lab’s Institute for Game Development and Research at the Cologne
University of Applied Sciences, and at *Transitio_MX06*
<http://transitiomx.net/muestra_en.html?Conexion=42> alongside acclaimed
game projects such as *The Stanley Parable* <http://www.stanleyparable.com/>,
*Papers, Please* <http://papersplea.se/> and *Atari-Noise*
<http://transitiomx.net/muestra_en.html?Conexion=29>.
Mez’s networked, interactive and game-based projects are taught worldwide.
Her pioneering <http://cordite.org.au/essays/sidestepping-the-known/>
codeworks
<http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/net.writing>
are discussed
and analysed in publications
<https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mez+Breeze%22&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1>
varying from academic journals
<http://jacket2.org/commentary/poetry-unexecutable-code> to digital
handbooks
<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>.
She was a Founding Contributor at ARGology, the International Game
Developers Association’s Alternate Reality Games SIG
<http://www.argology.org/about/> providing “…*much needed information about
alternate reality games for developers, journalists, researchers and
players”. *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 *“The Mez Breeze Papers”*) is to be housed
at the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library."
Chunks,
Mez
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu>
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