XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC
Resumo:107-1


Oral (Tema Livre)
107-1Waldemar Cordeiro: O homem que não é B.B.
Autores:Rachel Price (PU - Princeton) ; Rachel Price (PU - Princeton)

Resumo

This proposed presentation examines Brazilian landscape architect, concretista and pioneer of computer art Waldemar Cordeiro’s notions of virtuality, situating his early digital work--done on an IBM at USP--in the context of his prior experiments in landscape, concrete art and poetics, as well as the conflicts of his moment. The reflection is approached through Cordeiro's seminal work 'A mulher que não é B.B." How does Cordeiro's notion of a digitalized (virtual, non-"concrete") transformation of an iconic anti-Vietnam war image of a woman who was most definitely not B.B.--Brigitte Bardot--respond to a medium that emerged out of cybernetics' and early computation's links to military intelligence?