Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (born 1957) is a Brazilian musician, architect, and intermedia artist. His works have been included in art collections and have been recognized by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of New York, the Ars Aevi Contemporary Art Museum, the Venice Biennale, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others.

Career

Pimenta develops music, architecture, and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies. His concerts of music integrate visual art and have been performed in various countries in the last twenty years, beginning with his concert at the São Paulo Art Biennial, in 1985, with John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Pimenta has collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham. He has been composer for several companies such as the Appels Company in New York. His concerts have been performed at the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York, the Palais Garnier, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, the Festival of Aix en Provence, and the São Paulo Museum of Art.

In the early 1980s, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept “virtual architecture”, later largely used as specific discipline in universities all over the world. Since the end of the 1970s he has developed graphical musical notations inside virtual environments.

Positions

He has served as a curator for the Biennial of São Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Triennial of Milan, and the Belém Cultural Center.

Pimenta is a founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. He is member of the jury of the BES Fellowship (Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, the Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) since 1995. He his director of the contemporary music festival Holotopia, in Naples.^[1] He is also founder and director of the Foundation for Arts, Sciences and Technology – Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal. He was editorial director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi from 1995 to 2005. He is also member of the advisory editorial board of the science magazine Forma, in Tokyo, and of the art and philosophy magazine Technoetic Arts, in Bristol, England.

Projects

• Abell 2218^[2]
• Deep Ocean^[3]
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. X, in 2004^[4]
• Kirkos^[5]
• RAWWAR (random accelerating world, world and revolution)^[6]
• Zyklus,^[7]

Publications

Pimenta's work has been featured or appeared in:

• Encyclopædia Universalis (Britannica) since 1991
• Sloninsky Baker’s Music Dictionary (Berkeley)
• Chronology of the Western Classical Music
• Allmusic - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds
• The New York Times
• Le Monde
• Le Parisien
• O Estado de São Paulo
• O Globo
• Il Sole 24 Ore

References

External links

• Official site