New Media Scotland's new Twitterist-in-residence, Netwurker Mez will begin her stream of tweets from the 1st July.
_Event Info_ Host: New Media Scotland Type: Music/Arts - Jam Session _Time and Place_ Start Time: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 12:00pm End Time: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:00pm Location: http://twitter.com/mediascot City/Town: Edinburgh, United Kingdom _Contact Info_ Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _Description_ "Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists" (Florian Cramer). We are proud to announce our second Twitter artist residency is Australian-based artist Netwurker Mez. The impact of her unique code/net.wurks [constructed via her pioneering net.language "mezangelle"] has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall. Mez has exhibited extensively since the early 90s: Wollongong World Women Online, 1995 ISEA, 1997 Chicago USA ARS Electronica, 1997 The Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo Japan 1999 SIGGRAPH, 1999 & 2000 _Under_Score_ @The Brooklyn Academy of Music, USA 2001 +playengines+, Melbourne Australia 2003 p0es1s, Berlin Germany 2004 Arte Nuevo InteractivA, Yucatan Mexico 2005 Radical Software @Turin Italy, 2006 DIWO @ the HTTP Gallery London, 2007 Y O U . O W N . M E. N O W . U N T I L . Y O U . F O R G E T . A B O U T . M E. Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana 2008 Her awards include the 2001 VIF Prize (Germany), the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001 (Germany), 2002 Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize (Australia) and winner of the 2006 Site Specific Index Page Competition (Italy). Mez is also an online journalist + constructor of _Augmentology_ [see: augmentology.com]. * To follow Netwurker Mez's tweets visit: http://www.twitter.com/mediascot * To read her own meta_tweet commentary regarding the Residency follow: http://www.twitter.com/netwurker Limited availability Netwurker Mez t[weet]shirts will be released daily from the 1st - 31st July. http://www.mediascot.spreadshirt.net -- : http://augmentology.com : http://knott404.blogspot.com : http://netwurker.livejournal.com
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