Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta, (b. 1957), architect, urban planner and composer of contemporary music. 1977 Marketing Prominence Award by the Brazilian Association of Marketing. 1986 APCA Prize by the International Association of Art Critics. 1994 Lac Maggiore Prize (Lombardia Regional Government - Milano; International Association of Art Critics, the Council of Europe, UNESCO). Selected by Rolex Awards for Enterprise, 1992-1993. In 1993 his works are selected by UNESCO as one of the 30 most important multimedia artists of the world. Active member of the New York Academy of Sciences (since 1991), member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 1990) among others. Co-founder and former member of the board of the ISIS Symmetry International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. Member of the board of the European Environmental Tribunal, in Brussels. Worked together with John Cage from 1985 to 1992. Composer for Merce Cunningham in New York since 1985. Composer for the Appels Dance Company, in New York, since 1990. His works, papers, books, architectural projects and compact discs are published in England, the United States, Brazil, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Germany and Japan. Developes projects of architecture, Virtual Reality and Cyberspace technologies. His works are included in the Universalis Encyclopaedia (Sorbonne), the Sloninsky Baker's Art Dictionary (Berkeley), the Seattle Computer Art Museum, the Bibliotèque Nationale de Paris, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation among others. Starts to research what it would be called "virtual environments" in 1975. In 1990, his book Virtual Architecture is published by ASA Art and Technology in the UK, with some of his projects of architecture and virtual reality between 1980 and 1990. Between 1981 and 1992 he creates a complete virtual planet, called WOIKSED since 1996 on net. In 1996 he created, with the support of the National Foundation for the Scientific Computation, the virtual museum Earth's Collection, with more than 30,000 images of spaces created or transformed by humankind in several countries all over the world (http://www.fccn.pt/museu). In this year he also launchs in Perugia, Italy, the Joseph Beuys Reflexion VRML site (http://www.fccn.pt/museu/beuys/beuys1.htm), with the support of the National Foundation for the Scientific Computation and Risk Arte Oggi (Milano).

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