Career
Pimenta develops music, architecture, and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies. His concerts of music integrate visual art and have been performed in various countries in the last twenty years, beginning with his concert at the São Art Biennial, in 1985, with John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, and Robert Rauschenberg. Pimenta has collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham.
He has been composer for several companies such as the Appels Company in New New York
His concerts have been performed at the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York, the Palais Garnier, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, the Festival of Aix en Provence, and the São Museum of Artist In the early 1980s, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept “virtual architecture”, later largely used as specific discipline in universities all over the world.
Since the end of the 1970s he has developed graphical musical notations inside virtual environments. Positions He has served as a curator for the Biennial of São, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Triennial of Milan, and the Belém Cultural Center.
He his director of the contemporary music festival Holotopia, in Naples.
He was editorial director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi from 1995 to 2005. Projects Abell 2218 Deep Ocean Doctor Jekyll & Mr. X, in 2004 Kirkos RAWWAR (random accelerating world, world and revolution) Zyklus.
