Published in Overland Issue Photonic Overland · Uncategorized #Carnivast Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell Follow this link to launch the poem. Mez Breeze Not since the work of James Joyce has any one person so creatively explored layers upon layers of dimensional linguistic meaning as the writer/artist Mez Breeze.”’(Séamas Cain at ICIS 2012) Mez Breeze is the Creative Director of Mez Breeze Design (mezbreezedesign.com), an agency which provides boutique digital product and design services (including illustration, text, games, transmedia, and digital interactive media). Mez is also currently an Advisor to The Mixed Augmented Reality Art Research Organisation and is currently Senior Research Affiliate with The Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. Mez has shown her ground-breaking creative works widely, and her awards include the 2001 VIF Prize (Germany), the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001 (Germany), 2002 Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize (Australia), co-winner of the 2006 Site Specific Index Page Competition (Italy) and the Burton Wonderland Gallery Winner 2010 (judged by Hollywood Director Tim Burton). Her works reside in Collections as diverse as The World Bank and the PANDORA Electronic Collection at the National Library of Australia. Duke University have recently extended to Mez an invitation to develop a comprehensive career archive to be housed there at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. More by Mez Breeze › Andy Campbell Andy Campbell is the Director of Digital Media for One to One Development Trust, a UK arts/media charity whose pioneering digital fiction project Dreaming Methods has been online for 15 years. Dreaming Methods houses over 30 works of collaborative electronic literature and experimental narrative games, including new episodes of the award-winning series Inanimate Alice in association with The Bradfield Company, and #PRISOM with Australian digital artist Mez Breeze which made the shortlist for the Western Australia Premier Book Awards 2014 for Best Digital Narrative. More by Andy Campbell › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 25 September 202325 September 2023 · The university Solidarity but only among managers, or the future of the university sector Hannah Forsyth The process continued during Covid. Jobs were being cut due to the threats posed by the pandemic, yet more scholars were being recruited. Nice people, good at their job. But why are we doing this, we kept asking. Management kept telling us we have a funding crisis (which often turned to a surplus in the end), so why are we also on a hiring spree? All along it looked like it could end badly, for all of us. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 September 2023 · Friday Features Activating the poetic spirit as friendship John Kinsella I’ve always had the aching feeling that—as a text to be shared among friends and maybe eventually ‘enemies’—the soul-body dialogue poem is a way of arguing towards spiritual certainty in the face of earthly corruption and doubt.
