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lisbon 2001

emanuel dimas de melo pimenta

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Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, 44, is an architect, urban planner and composer of classical contemporary music. He won the Marketing Prize in 1977 by the Brazilian Association of Marketing; the APCA Prize in 1986 by the Art Critics Association of Sao Paulo; and the Lac Maggiore Prize in 1994 by the Regional Government of Lombardia, the International Association of Art Critics, the Unesco and the Council of Europe, in Locarno, Switzerland. In 1993 his works were selected by the Unesco, in Paris, as one of the most representative intermedia researches of the world. He is member of the SACD - Societè des Autheurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in Paris. He is also member of the European Environmental Tribunal, in Brussels, where he has worked as a member of the board since 1995. He is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, he is member and advisor for the AIVAC - Association Internationale pour la Video dans les Arts et la Culture, in Locarno and Lausanne; and founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry - ISIS Symmetry, with main offices in Budapest. He studied, among others, with Hans Joachim Koellreutter (Paul Hindemith, Marcel Moyse), Eduardo Corona, Eduardo Kneese (Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius), Decio Pignatari, Holger Czukai (Karlheinz Stockhausen) and Roti Nielba Turin. He took part in various workshops and master classes with Kenzo Tange, Oscar Niemeyer, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Charles Moore among others. He worked with John Cage from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He is composer for Merce Cunningham, in New York, since 1985. He is also composer for the Appels Company, in New York, since 1990. His musical compositions have been played by important musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, Maurizio Barbetti, John Tilbury, Martha Mooke, John DS Adams, Michael Pugliese and the Manhattan Quartet among others. He is also Editorial Director of RISK Arte Oggi, in Milan. He is member of the jury of the BES Fellowship - Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - since 1995. In the early 80s Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept "virtual architecture", later largely used as specific discipline in diverse universities all over the world. Mr.Pimenta has been invited, as professor and lecturer, by several institutions, among then the University of New York, the University of Lisbon, the University of Lausanne, the University of Tsukuba, the University of Sao Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verita Foundation in Switzerland and the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel. His works are included in the Universalis Encyclopaedia, in the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley) as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. He has his works, cd-roms, cds, books and papers published in England, in the United States, in Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy and Spain. Articles on his works have been published in different newspapers and magazines, like the New York Times, Le Monde, Le Parisien, O Estado de Sao Paulo and O Globo among others. He developes projects of architecture, urban planning and contemporary music using Virtual Reality and Cyberspace technologies. He is also curator for the Bienal de Sao Paulo Foundation and Experimenta 2001 in Lisbon among other institutions.

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Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, 44, is an architect, urban planner and composer of classical contemporary music. He won the Marketing Prize in 1977 by the Brazilian Association of Marketing; the APCA Prize in 1986 by the Art Critics Association of Sao Paulo; and the Lac Maggiore Prize in 1994 by the Regional Government of Lombardia, the International Association of Art Critics, the Unesco and the Council of Europe, in Locarno, Switzerland. In 1993 his works were selected by the Unesco, in Paris, as one of the most representative intermedia researches of the world. He is member of the SACD - Societè des Autheurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in Paris. He is also member of the European Environmental Tribunal, in Brussels, where he has worked as a member of the board since 1995. He is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, he is member and advisor for the AIVAC - Association Internationale pour la Video dans les Arts et la Culture, in Locarno and Lausanne; and founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry - ISIS Symmetry, with main offices in Budapest. He studied, among others, with Hans Joachim Koellreutter (Paul Hindemith, Marcel Moyse), Eduardo Corona, Eduardo Kneese (Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius), Decio Pignatari, Holger Czukai (Karlheinz Stockhausen) and Roti Nielba Turin. He took part in various workshops and master classes with Kenzo Tange, Oscar Niemeyer, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Charles Moore among others. He worked with John Cage from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He is composer for Merce Cunningham, in New York, since 1985. He is also composer for the Appels Company, in New York, since 1990. His musical compositions have been played by important musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, Maurizio Barbetti, John Tilbury, Martha Mooke, John DS Adams, Michael Pugliese and the Manhattan Quartet among others. He is also Editorial Director of RISK Arte Oggi, in Milan. He is member of the jury of the BES Fellowship - Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - since 1995. In the early 80s Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept "virtual architecture", later largely used as specific discipline in diverse universities all over the world. Mr.Pimenta has been invited, as professor and lecturer, by several institutions, among then the University of New York, the University of Lisbon, the University of Lausanne, the University of Tsukuba, the University of Sao Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verita Foundation in Switzerland and the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel. His works are included in the Universalis Encyclopaedia, in the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley) as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. He has his works, cd-roms, cds, books and papers published in England, in the United States, in Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy and Spain. Articles on his works have been published in different newspapers and magazines, like the New York Times, Le Monde, Le Parisien, O Estado de Sao Paulo and O Globo among others. He developes projects of architecture, urban planning and contemporary music using Virtual Reality and Cyberspace technologies. He is also curator for the Bienal de Sao Paulo Foundation and Experimenta 2001 in Lisbon among other institutions.
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