Augusto de Campos (1931, São Paulo) is a poet, translator, theorist, and critic. With his brother Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari, he founded the literary journal Noigandres in 1953 and established what became a global movement in concrete poetry, publishing and exhibiting widely in Brazil and internationally. His published work has been gathered in volumes including VIVA VAIA (1979), DESPOESIA (1994), and NÃO (2003). His museum exhibitions include participation in the First National Exhibition of Concrete Art at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo in 1956 and more recently the show TRANSLETRAS at the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, also in São Paulo. Since 1980, he has been increasingly interested in new, multi-, and inter-media experimentation, producing works including POESIA É RISCO in collaboration with his son, Cid Campos. Augusto has translated a broad range of poets and writers such as Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Arthur Rimbaud, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He is the author of numerous essays on poetry and translation. We are honoured that Augusto de Campos joins us a Special Contributor for Poetrishy #1.

André Vallias (1963, São Paulo) is a poet, graphic designer, and producer of interactive media. In the 1980s, he developed a series of designs with mathematical compositions and, from 1985, began creating visual poetry. In 1992, he organized the first international showcase of computer poetry, ‘p0es1e-digitale dichtkunst’, with Friedrich W. Block in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany. He lives in Rio de Janeiro and directs the website www.refazenda.com. We are proud to include in Poetrishy #1 this collaboration between André Vallias and Augusto de Campos.

For more than seventy years, Augusto de Campos has been exploring relationships between poetry and mathematics, including between concrete poetry and geometry and between poetry and computation. In his contributions for Poetrishy #1, Augusto de Campos combines his work with translation, concrete poetry, and digital poetry to demonstrate and explore longstanding links between poetry and mathematics. The video is a collaboration with André Vallias.

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