Philadelpho Menezes

Infobox Writer
name = Philadelpho Menezes


caption =
birthdate = 1960
birthplace = São Paulo, São Paulo(State), Brazil
deathdate = 2000
deathplace = Brazil
occupation = poet, visual poetry, new media poet, theorist, university professor
movement = Concrete poetry, sound poetry, new media poetry
notableworks =
influences = Concrete poetry
influenced = Brazilian experimental poetry

Philadelpho Menezes (born in 1960 in São Paulo, Brazil, dead in 2000, Brazil, in a car accident). Brazilian poet, visual poet, pioneer of new media poetry, professor in the Communication and Semiology post-graduation program at the Pontifical University of São Paulo. He performed research for his post-graduate degree at the University of Bologna, in Italy (1990). With Brazilian artist Wilton Azevedo Philadepho Menezes created a pioneer intermedia-poetry CD-ROM: "InterPoesia. Poesia Hipermidia Interativa" (1998). In Italy he collaborated with the first net-poetry project: "Karenina.it", by Italian artist Caterina Davinio.

Publications

His doctorate thesis was published under the title "The Crises of the Past: Modernity, Post-Modernity, Meta-Modernity." He published his first book of poems, "4 achados construídos" (four found and built) in 1980. Other publications are:
*Poemas 1980-1982 ("Poems 1980-1982") (1984)
*Demolições (ou poemas aritméticos) [Demolitions (or arithmetic poems)] , 1988
*Poetry and Visualization: Contemporary Brazilian Poetry, book essay, 1991
*Poesia Sonora – Poéticas experimentais da voz no Século XX. São Paulo, EDUC, 1992
*Poetics and new technologies of communication: a semiotic approach" in Face. Revista de Semiótica e Comunicação, D.1, 1998
*Poesia Intersignos-Do Impresso ao Sonoro e ao Digital. In: Exposição, Poesia Sonora, Seminário. São Paulo, Paço das Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, 1998
*Poesia intersignos, Timbre, São Paulo, Brasil, 1985

CD Rom

*Poesia sonora (do fonetismo às poéticas contempoâneas da voz), LLS, Univ. Catolica de São Paulo, Brasil, 1996
*Interpoesia (Poesia Hipermidia Interativa), PUC-SP y Univ. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 1997 - 98

Cultural Festivals

He organized important cultural festivals about international experimental poetry, new media poetry, avant-gardes, such as:
*"Sonorous Poetry: Experimental Poetry of the Voice of the 20th Century" (1992)
*"Inter-Sign Poetry" (1985)
*the "International Show of Visual Poetry of São Paulo" (1988)

References

* Philadelpho Menezes, "Poesia Sonora – Poéticas experimentais da voz no Século XX". São Paulo, EDUC, 1992
* Philadelpho Menezes, "Poetics and new technologies of communication: a semiotic approach" in "Face. Revista de Semiótica e Comunicação", D.1, 1998, site: [www.pucsp br/~cos-puc/face]
*Philadelpho Menezes, "Poesia Intersignos-Do Impresso ao Sonoro e ao Digital". In: "Exposição, Poesia Sonora", Seminário. São Paulo, Paço das Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, 1998
*Philadelpho Menezes - "Poesia Intersignos", Timbre, São Paulo, Brasil, 1985
*Caterina Davinio, "Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali" (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities), Mantova (I), Sometti Publ., 2002
*"Guia para la lectura de la poesia intersignos", en compilación de César Espinosa "Signos Corrosivos", Ed. Factor, Ciudad de México, México,1987
*"Uma abordagem tipologica da poesia visual", en catálogo "I Mostra Internacional de Poesía Visual de São Paulo", Nobel, São Paulo, Brasil, 1988
*"Poetica e visualidad" (uma trajetória da poesía brasileña contemporánea), Editora da UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil, 1991
*Poetics and Visuality, Universidad de San Diego, California, USA, 1994, Trad. Harry Polkinhorn
*"Brazilian Visual Poetry", en revista "Visible Language", vol. 27, nr. 4, Rhode Island School of Language, Providence, USA, 1993
*"El experimentalismo poetico moderno (Poesía visual: en busca del arte actual)", capítulo V del libro "A crise do passado. Modernidad, vanguarda, metamodernidad", Ed. Experimento, São Paulo, Brasil, 1994
*"Roteiro de leitura: poesia concreta e visual", Editora Atica, São Paulo, Brasil, 1998
*"Poesia intersignos (Do impresso ao sonoro e ao digital)", en catálogo homónimo, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil, 1998

CD Rom

*Phjiladelpho Menezes, "Poesia sonora (do fonetismo às poéticas contempoâneas da voz)", LLS, Univ. Catolica de São Paulo, Brasil,1996.
*Philadelpho Menezes y Wilton Azeredo, "INTERPOESIA" (Poesia Hipermidia Interativa), PUC-SP y Univ. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 1997 - 98.

Links

* [http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/ensaios/ensaiosantigos/clemente.htm Review]
* [http://www.imediata.com/BVP/Philadelpho_Menezes/index.html]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/manifesto.htm Karenina.it it, en]
* [http://xoomer.alice.it/cprezi/poevisioni2000catalogo.htm Poevisioni 2000 it]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/tecnopoetry.html Art Tribus]

See also

*Digital poetry
*Visual poetry
*Concrete Poetry

Persondata
NAME=Menezes, Philadelpho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Brazilian poet
DATE OF BIRTH=1960
PLACE OF BIRTH=São Paulo, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH=2000
PLACE OF DEATH=Brazil