Waldemar Cordeiro

Waldemar Cordeiro, 1979.

Originally a member of the Brazilian avant-garde scene that developed Concrete art in Brazil in the 1950s, Waldemar Cordeiro (1925, Rome, Italy – 1973, São Paulo, Brazil) 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, retrospective exhibition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2025.
• Waldemar Cordeiro. A Singular Constellation, retrospective exhibition, The Mayor Gallery, London, 2024.
• 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