Philadelpho Menezes

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.

Philadelpho Menezes
Born	1960 São Paulo, São Paulo(State), Brazil
Died	2000 Brazil
Occupation	poet, visual poetry, new media poet, theorist, university professor
Literary movement	Concrete poetry, sound poetry, new media poetry

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:

• Poemas 1980-1982 ("Poems 1980-1982") (1984)
• Demolições (ou poemas aritméticos) [Demolitions (or arithmetic poems)], 1988
• Poetry and Visualization: Contemporary Brazilian Poetry, book essay, 1991
• Poesia Sonora – Poéticas experimentais da voz no Século XX. São Paulo, EDUC, 1992
• Poetics and new technologies of communication: a semiotic approach" in Face. Revista de Semiótica e Comunicação, D.1, 1998
• Poesia Intersignos-Do Impresso ao Sonoro e ao Digital. In: Exposição, Poesia Sonora, Seminário. São Paulo, Paço das Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, 1998
• Poesia intersignos, Timbre, São Paulo, Brasil, 1985

CD Rom

• Poesia sonora (do fonetismo às poéticas contempoâneas da voz), LLS, Univ. Catolica de São Paulo, Brasil, 1996
• Interpoesia (Poesia Hipermidia Interativa), PUC-SP y Univ. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 1997–98

Cultural Festivals

He organized important cultural festivals about international experimental poetry, new media poetry, avant-gardes, such as:

• "Sonorous Poetry: Experimental Poetry of the Voice of the 20th Century" (1992)
• "Inter-Sign Poetry" (1985)
• the "International Show of Visual Poetry of São Paulo" (1988)

References

• Philadelpho Menezes, Poesia Sonora – Poéticas experimentais da voz no Século XX. São Paulo, EDUC, 1992
• Philadelpho Menezes, "Poetics and new technologies of communication: a semiotic approach" in "Face. Revista de Semiótica e Comunicação", D.1, 1998, site: [www.pucsp br/~cos-puc/face]
• Philadelpho Menezes, "Poesia Intersignos-Do Impresso ao Sonoro e ao Digital". In: "Exposição, Poesia Sonora", Seminário. São Paulo, Paço das Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, 1998
• Philadelpho Menezes - Poesia Intersignos, Timbre, São Paulo, Brasil, 1985
• Caterina Davinio, Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities), Mantova (I), Sometti Publ., 2002
• "Guia para la lectura de la poesia intersignos", en compilación de César Espinosa Signos Corrosivos, Ed. Factor, Ciudad de México, México,1987
• "Uma abordagem tipologica da poesia visual", en catálogo I Mostra Internacional de Poesía Visual de São Paulo, Nobel, São Paulo, Brasil, 1988
• Poetica e visualidad (uma trajetória da poesía brasileña contemporánea), Editora da UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil, 1991
• Poetics and Visuality, San Diego State University Press, San Diego, California, USA, 1994, Trad. Harry Polkinhorn
• "Brazilian Visual Poetry", en revista "Visible Language", vol. 27, nr. 4, Rhode Island School of Language, Providence, USA, 1993
• "El experimentalismo poetico moderno (Poesía visual: en busca del arte actual)", capítulo V del libro A crise do passado. Modernidad, vanguarda, metamodernidad, Ed. Experimento, São Paulo, Brasil, 1994
• Roteiro de leitura: poesia concreta e visual, Editora Atica, São Paulo, Brasil, 1998
• "Poesia intersignos (Do impresso ao sonoro e ao digital)", en catálogo homónimo, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil, 1998

CD Rom

• Phjiladelpho Menezes, Poesia sonora (do fonetismo às poéticas contempoâneas da voz), LLS, Univ. Catolica de São Paulo, Brasil,1996.
• Philadelpho Menezes y Wilton Azeredo, INTERPOESIA (Poesia Hipermidia Interativa), PUC-SP y Univ. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 1997–98.

External links

• Review
• Karenina.it it, en
• Poevisioni 2000 it
• Art Tribus

See also

• Digital poetry
• Visual poetry
• Concrete Poetry