Name Philadelpho Menezes Role Poet | Died 2000, Brazil | |
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Occupation poet, visual poetry, new media poet, theorist, university professor Books Poetics and Visuality: A Trajectory of Contemporary Brazilian Poetry Literary movement Concrete poetry, Sound poetry | ||
Philadelpho Menezes - "poema não música"
Philadelpho Menezes (born in 1960 in São Paulo, Brazil, died in 2000 following a car accident). Brazilian poet, visual poet, pioneer of new media poetry, professor in the Communication and Semiology post-graduation program at the Pontifical University of São Paulo. He performed research for his post-graduate degree at the University of Bologna, in Italy (1990). With Brazilian artist Wilton Azevedo Philadepho Menezes created a pioneer intermedia-poetry CD-ROM: "InterPoesia. Poesia Hipermidia Interativa" (1998). In Italy he collaborated with the first net-poetry project: Karenina.it, by Italian artist Caterina Davinio.
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Publications
His doctorate thesis was published under the title "The Crises of the Past: Modernity, Post-Modernity, Meta-Modernity." He published his first book of poems, "4 achados construídos" (four found and built) in 1980. Other publications are:
CD Rom
Cultural Festivals
He organized important cultural festivals about international experimental poetry, new media poetry, avant-gardes, such as: