Waldemar Cordeiro

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Waldemar Cordeiro – Auto-Retrato (self-portrait) Probabilístico , 1967
34,5 × 29,5 × 31 cm

Born 1925 in Rome, Italy.
Died 1973 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Waldemar Cordeiro is perhaps the most important name of electronic arts in Brazil for the historic perspective. In the 1950’s, he was already one of the most prominent members of the Brazilian avant garde scene, as the main theorist of concrete art.

At 1960’s, he advocated the learning of programming languages by the artist in order to extract the maximum relationship with the new machines that were being invented. In 1971, he organized the Arteônica event in São Paulo, the first major exhibition and conference on art / technology in Brazil. Arteônica was a pioneering event (and not just in terms of Brazil) at a meeting of all minds that were now considering the radical changes that were occurring in the arts.

Cited in: bit international. [Nove] tendencije - Comput..., Computergraphik Computerkunst, A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Maga...
Part of artist groups(s): New Tendencies
Programming languages/software used: FORTRAN

1925 Born in Rome, Italy.

/ ????/ Began his training in Rome, at the School of Fine Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma), taking a course in engraving at the Scuola di San Giacomo and studying with the painter, De Simone.

1946 Moved to São Paulo, Brazil, working as Journalist.

1952 Together with Anatol Wladyslaw (1913 – 2004), Leopoldo Haar (1910 – 1954), Lothar Charoux (1912 – 1987), Féjer (1923 – 1989), Geraldo de Barros (1923 – 1998) and Luiz Sacilotto (1924 – 2003), he founded the Grupo Ruptura (Rupture Group).

1952 Exhibited work of a concrete character, launching a manifesto at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo – MAM/SP (São Paulo Museum of Modern Art).

1960’s Introduced the use of the computer in the visual arts to Brazil, carrying out his first researches at the end of the 1960s.

1971 Held the Arteônica – O Uso Criativo dos Meios Eletrônicos em Arte (Artonics – the Creative Use of Electronic Media in Art) show in São Paulo, which resulted in a book of the same title.

1972 Became a lecturer at the Universidade de Campinas – Unicamp (University of Campinas), where he directed the Centro de Processamento de Imagens do Instituto de Artes (Image Processing Centre of the Institute of Arts).

Exhibitions:

  • 1969 – São Paulo, Brazil – Computer Plotter Art, at Usis’ Gallery (considered the first computer art exhibition realized on Latin America).
  • 1970 – London, UK – Computer Graphic 70, na Brunek University.
  • 1970 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Computer Graphic Artman.
  • 1970 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Computer Graphic Roof of Groenland.
  • 1970 – London, UK – Computer 70 Olympia.
  • 1971 – São Paulo, Brazil – Arteônica, at Faap.

Source:

Links:

Arteônica: Electronic Art (Manifesto), by Waldemar Cordeiro: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/cordeiro.html

Auto_Retrato_Probabil_ico_1967

Waldemar Cordeiro – Auto-Retrato (self-portrait) Probabilístico , 1967
34,5 × 29,5 × 31 cm

 
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