Augusto de Campos (born 14 February 1931,

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) is a Brazilian writer who (with his brother

Haroldo de Campos Haroldo Eurico Browne de Campos (19 August 1929 – 16 August 2003) was a Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Brazilian literature since 1950. Biography He did his secon ...

) was a founder of the

Concrete poetry Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct mea ...

movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist.

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In 1952 he founded the literary magazine '' Noigandres'' with his brother. Then in 1956 he and his associates declared the beginning of a movement. Since then he has had a number of collections and honors. From the 1950s to 1970s his main works were directed towards

visual poetry Literary theorists have identified visual poetry as a development of concrete poetry but with the characteristics of intermedia in which non-representational language and visual elements predominate. Differentiation from concrete poetry As the li ...

but from 1980 on, he intensified his experiments with

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, presenting his poems on electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, computer graphics, and multimedia events, involving sound and music, as the plurivocal reading of CIDADECITYCITÉ with his son Cid Campos (1987–91). Four of his holographic poems in cooperation with the holographer

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were included in the exhibitions TRILUZ (1986) and IDEHOLOGIA (1987). A "videoclippoem", O PULSAR, with music by

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, was produced in 1984 at an

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high resolution computer station. BOMB POEM and SOS, with music by Cid Campos, were animated at a

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computer station of the University of São Paulo (1992–93). His cooperation with Cid, begun in 1987, resulted in POESIA É RISCO (Poetry is Risk), a CD launched by PolyGram in 1995. The recording was developed into a multimedia performance under the same title, a "verbivocovisual" show of poetry/music/image, with video editing by Walter Silveira, and was presented in several cities in Brazil and abroad. An installation assembling his digital poetic animations.

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(MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina *

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, Madrid, Spain *The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA, USA

Awards

In 2015 Augusto de Campos received Brazil's Order of Cultural Merit. In 2017 he was honoured by the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry (award of the Hungarian PEN Club).

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Brazilian artists Graphic poetry 1931 births Living people University of São Paulo alumni 20th-century Brazilian poets Brazilian male poets Tropicália Signalism 20th-century Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-artist-stub

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