Rot and Root

Mez's work is, at its textual base, indebted to the old concretists and constructivists; it's at text-level visual poetry, and yet when multimedia like flash and dhtml gets thrown into the mix, something miraculous happens. Mez is primarily a writer, but a writer with a clear idea of the very core of interactive media--this work is a whole; it is not simply text transfigured with pretty pictures, be they moving to sound or no. Mez sculpts in these new media. She constructs a hypertext much like Joyce must have constructed Finnegan's Wake. There are, in her language, certain resonances that carry themselves from the bounds of the page into the quickness of motion and the ambiance of noise.

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