_the data][h!][bleeding texts_

"_the data][h!][bleeding texts_" is "a multimedia poem [that] gives a voice to a body and mind imagined through computational conditions. Mary Anne Breeze / Mez / Netwurker has developed a language practice known as mezangelle, which she uses in this poem to create a cyborg lyric voice. The implied metaphor in the title is that data has a body and it is bleeding, perhaps it has been wounded. Mapped onto electronic texts, the displayed texts are the skin, while the code is the rest of the body, including the blood. What we read is a combination of computer and natural languages, both of which are executable." -- From I Love E-Poetry

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The Iowa Review Web

Published in 2001 by The Iowa Review Web in Volume 3.

This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Lynne Nugent at the Iowa Review in Summer 2016.

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http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/TIRW/tirweb/hypermedia/mez/datahtexts/index.gif

Cauldron & Net

Published in 2002 by Cauldron & Net in Volume 4.

Claire Dinsmore gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in Spring 2019.

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Journal

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