Augusto de Campos
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Augusto de Campos is a Brazi
lian writer who (with his brother Haroldo de Campos
) was a founder of the Concrete poetry
movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist.
In 1952, he founded the literary magazine Noigandres with his brother. Then in 1956 he and his associates declared the beginning of a movement. Since then he has had a number of collections and honors.
From the 50's to 70's his main works were directed to viusal poetry but from 1980 on, intensified his experiments with the new media, presenting his poems on electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, computer graphics, and multimedia events, involving sound and music, as the plurivocal reading of CIDADECITYCITÉ (with Cid Campos), 1987/1991.
Four of his holographic poems (in cooperation with the holographer Moysés Baumstein
) were included in the exhibitions TRILUZ (1986) and IDEHOLOGIA (1987). A videoclippoem, PULSAR, with music by Caetano Veloso, was produced in 1984 in an Intergraph high resolution computer station. BOMB POEM and SOS, with music by his son, Cid Campos, were animated in a Silicon Graphic Computer Station of the University of São Paulo, 1992-3. His cooperation with Cid, begun in 1987 resulted in POESIA É RISCO (Poetry is Risk), a CD launched by PolyGram in 1995 and developed in a multimedia performance with the same title, a "verbivocovisual" show of poetry/music/image, which gained video-editing by Walter Silveira, and has been presented in several cities in Brazil and abroad. An installation assembling his digital poetic animations.
-----. "ABC of AdeC: Reading Augusto de Campos." Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 73, Special issue: Brazilian Writing and Arts (2006), 236-44.
Brazi
Brazi is a commune in Prahova County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Băteşti, Brazii de Jos, Brazii de Sus , Negoieşti, Popeşti and Stejaru.In 1948 it had a population of 1,530....
lian writer who (with his brother Haroldo de Campos
Haroldo de Campos
Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...
) was a founder of the Concrete poetry
Concrete poetry
Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on....
movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist.
In 1952, he founded the literary magazine Noigandres with his brother. Then in 1956 he and his associates declared the beginning of a movement. Since then he has had a number of collections and honors.
From the 50's to 70's his main works were directed to viusal poetry but from 1980 on, intensified his experiments with the new media, presenting his poems on electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, computer graphics, and multimedia events, involving sound and music, as the plurivocal reading of CIDADECITYCITÉ (with Cid Campos), 1987/1991.
Four of his holographic poems (in cooperation with the holographer Moysés Baumstein
Moysés Baumstein
Moysés Baumstein was a Brazilian artist.Moysés worked in many fields: from literary creation to painting, from film making to holography....
) were included in the exhibitions TRILUZ (1986) and IDEHOLOGIA (1987). A videoclippoem, PULSAR, with music by Caetano Veloso, was produced in 1984 in an Intergraph high resolution computer station. BOMB POEM and SOS, with music by his son, Cid Campos, were animated in a Silicon Graphic Computer Station of the University of São Paulo, 1992-3. His cooperation with Cid, begun in 1987 resulted in POESIA É RISCO (Poetry is Risk), a CD launched by PolyGram in 1995 and developed in a multimedia performance with the same title, a "verbivocovisual" show of poetry/music/image, which gained video-editing by Walter Silveira, and has been presented in several cities in Brazil and abroad. An installation assembling his digital poetic animations.
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Further reading
- Perrone, Charles A. Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.
-----. "ABC of AdeC: Reading Augusto de Campos." Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 73, Special issue: Brazilian Writing and Arts (2006), 236-44.