Augusto de Campos was born in São Paulo in 1931 and is a poet, translator, critic. In 1952, with his brother Haroldo and Décio Pignatari, he launched the literary magazine "Noigandres," which became the origin of the Noigandres Group that introduced the
international movement of concrete poetry to Brazil. The second issue of that magazine in 1955 contained his series of color poems "Poetamenos" (Minuspoet), which represented the first manifestation of concrete poetry in Brazil. His work has since been included in many international exhibitions, and in world-known anthologies such as "Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology," edited by Stephen Bann (London, 1967), "Concrete Poetry: A World View," edited by Mary Ellen Solt (Bloomington, Indiana, 1968), "Anthology of Concrete Poetry," edited by Emmet Williams (New York City, Something Else Press, 1968). Recent exhibitions of his work include "Marseille," "Poésure et Peintrie" and "2e. Biennale d'Art Contemporain" in Lyon, France (1993). Campos has been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Texas at Austin; Bloomington, Indiana; Madison, Wisconsin; and New York. He has participated in performances of poetry and music with Cid Campos in Miami (Center For the Fine Arts, Florida University) in 1994, Yale University in 1995, Amsterdam (Musiek Centrum De Ijsbreker) in 1996, and Paris (Cité de la Musique) in 1999. Since 1980, he has intensified his experiments with new media, presenting poems using electric billboards, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, animated digital clips and in multimedia events involving sound and music. Samples of his work may be found in his website:
http://www.uol.com.br/augustodecampos