Index

Contents 

 

Acknowledgements 11 

 

1. Technicised Barbarians Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez 12 

 

i Code and Language 

2. Code and Language Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez 38 

3. Form, Function and General Project (1957) Décio Pignatari 43 

4. Concrete Poetry – Language – Communication (1957) Haroldo de Campos 46 

5. Poetry and Modernity: From the Death of Art to the Constellation. The Post-Utopian Poem (1997) Haroldo de Campos 61 

6. Art and Technology, Part iii (1967) Augusto de Campos 69 

7. On Some Aspects of Concrete Poetry (1957) Haroldo de Campos 74 

8. New Language, New Poetry (1964) Luis Ângelo Pinto and Décio Pignatari 77 

9. The Three Sides of the Coin: Brazilian Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s (1983) Eduardo Kac 88 

10. Two Lines of Contribution: Concretists in São Paulo / Neo-Concretists in Rio (1977) Aracy Amaral 101 

11. The New Possibilities (1977) Walter Zanini 111 

12. International Multimedia (1979) Walter Zanini 113 

 

ii Social Communication Systems 

13. Social Communication Systems Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez 116 

14. Art in Hard Times (1964-c. 1980) (2004) Aracy Amaral 121 

15. General Outline of the New Objectivity (1967) Hélio Oiticica 132 

16. Mail Art: Art in Synchrony (1981) Julio Plaza 141 

17. Mail Art and the Great Network: Art, Today, is this Statement (1977) Paulo Bruscky 145 

18. Artistic Xerography: Art without an Original (from the Invention of the Machine to the Xero/graphic Process) (1985) Paulo Bruscky 148 

19. Conversation with the Reader (1986) Júlio Plaza 153 

20. By Way of Conclusion (1986) Júlio Plaza 159 

21. Holopoetry and Perceptual Syntax (1986) Eduardo Kac 168 

22. Pretext for an Intervention (1984) Annateresa Fabris 171 

23. Museums and New Communication Media (1976) Walter Zanini 176 

24. Introduction to the 17th São Paulo Biennial (1983) Walter Zanini 179 

25. For a Creative Criticism / Curating Exhibitions as Creation (1989) Frederico Morais 182 

26. From the Body to the Ground (2001) Frederico Morais 189 

 

iii Moving Images 

27. Moving Images Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez 200 

28. Poets, Artists, Anarcho-Super8 -Filmmakers (2001) Rubens Machado Jr. 204 

29. Some Ideas around Expo-Projection 73 (1973) Aracy Amaral 210 

30. (Audiovisuals) (1973) Frederico Morais 218 

31. Block-Experiments in Cosmococa – Program in Progress (1973) Hélio Oiticica 224 

32. The Early Days of Video Art in Brazil (2000) Fernando Cocchiarale 235 

33. Testimonial: Regina Silveira (1984) Regina Silveira 240 

34. Testimonial: Anna Bella Geiger (1984) Anna Bella Geiger 246 

35. Videoart: The Brazilian Adventure (1996) Arlindo Machado 250 

36. The Video Theatre Project (1985) Otávio Donasci 264 

37. Video as a Utopian Television Project (2000) Yvana Fechine 271 

38. Videobrasil and Video in Brazil: A Side-by-Side Journey (2000) Solange Farkas 280 

39. Exploded Video and its Shards, Hovering Above Us (2008) Lucas Bambozzi 288 

 

iv Personal Computers 

40. Personal Computers Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez 296 

41. Investigative Poetics (2005) Christine Mello 302 

42. Time Capsule (1997) Eduardo Kac 311  

43. Itaulab Research: Paulista 1919, Abadia Virtual and Policarpo (2008) Marcos Cuzziol 316 

44. Technology and Contemporary Art: Bringing Politics Into the Conversation (2005) Arlindo Machado 322 

45. Make Way for Tactical Media! (2003) Ricardo Rosas and Tatiana Wells 339 

46. Gambiarra – Elements for a Reflection on Recombinant Technology (2006) Ricardo Rosas 343 

47. Free Studios (2006) Fabianne B. Balvedi, Guilherme R. Soares, Adriana Veloso and Flavio Soares 355 

48. re:combo Full Use Licence (2004) re:combo 365 

49. Art Machines (1999) Frederico Morais 376 

 

Notes 385 

Original Sources 395 

Works Cited 403 

 

 

donated by: 

Gabriel Menotti