Waldemar Cordeiro

Originally a member of the Brazilian avant-garde scene that developed Concrete art in Brazil in the 1950s, Waldemar Cordeiro abandoned paint and canvas in the late 1960s to become one of the international pioneers of computer art.

Publications

• "Computer plotter art: primeira mostra na América Latina", São Paulo: Mini Galeria USIS, 1970. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• "Arteônica", in Arteônica – o uso criativo de meios eletrônicos nas artes, São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 1972. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • "Arteônica: Electronic Art", trans. Eduardo Kac, Leonardo 30:1, Feb 1997. Trans. of intro. (English)
• more

Literature

• Annateresa Fabris, "Waldemar Cordeiro: Computer Art Pioneer", Leonardo 30:1, Feb 1997.
• Adrian Anagnost, "Scattered Wall: Waldemar Cordeiro and Lygia Clark", in Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
• P.A.C. Arantes, "Waldemar Cordeiro and Arteônica: rewritings of digital art in Brazil and Latin America", AI & Society 37, 2022, pp 1085–1092. [1]

See also

• Brazil

Links

• Waldemar Cordeiro. Constellations. From Concrete Art to Computer Art, exhibition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2025.
• http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/4674
• http://waldemarcordeiro.blogspot.com/
• http://repository.unm.edu/bitstream/handle/1928/11532/Anagnost_Internationalism.pdf
• http://relaunch.compart-bremen.de/public/docUploads/fabris_Waldemar_Cordeiro__Computer_Art_Pioneer.pdf
• http://143.107.31.231/Acervo_Imagens/Revista/REV045/Media/REV45-05-1.pdf
• http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/en/pessoa297/waldemar-cordeiro