Mez
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- The correct title of this article is mez. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
mez (real name Mary-Anne Breeze, born April 29, 1970 in Goulburn, Australia) is an Australia net artist working also under the identities (or, as she calls them, avatars) netwurker, data[h!bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.exe, Purrsonal Areah Netwurker, and others. She is best known for her codework based on her self-invented language mezangelle which she publishes on mailing lists like _arc.hive_, Nettime and syndicate. These work, or "wurks" as she calls them, have language play and identity swapping as a central element. Because of their dense poetical language, they are also acclaimed and influential in digital poetry.