Press Release: 2nd July 2008

Netwurker Mez Begins New Artist Residency
Online at http://www.twitter.com/mediascot from the 1st July -31st July 2008

“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, 1995ISEA, 1997 Chicago USA ARS Electronica, 1997The Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo Japan 1999 SIGGRAPH, 1999 & 2000 \_Under\_Score\_ @The Brooklyn Academy of Music, USA 2001+playengines+, Melbourne Australia 2003p0es1s, Berlin Germany 2004Arte Nuevo InteractivA, Yucatan Mexico 2005Radical Software @Turin Italy, 2006DIWO @ 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 2008Her 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

ENDS

For more information, photography or interviews please contact Kristina Johansen, Tel: +44 (0) 131 477 3774, email kristina@mediascot.org

Notes to Editors

1. New Media Scotland is the national development agency for art, science and technology. Through working with artists and supporting the presentation of work their work in this field,we foster greater public understanding of the role that technology is playing in contemporary culture.

2. New Media Scotland is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. Registered in Scotland SC197570 - Scottish Charity No. SC029114. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

3. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter web site,via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Facebook.

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