Career
He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist. Then in 1956 he and his associates declared the beginning of a movement. Since then he has had a number of collections and honors.
From the 1950s to 1970s his main works were directed to visual poetry but from 1980 on, intensified his experiments with the new media, presenting his poems on electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, computer graphics, and multimedia events, involving sound and music, as the plurivocal reading of CIDADECITYCITÉ (with Cid Campos), 1987/1991.
Four of his holographic poems (in cooperation with the holographer Moysés Baumstein ) were included in the exhibitions TRILUZ (1986) and IDEHOLOGIA (1987). A videoclippoem, PULSAR, with music by Caetano Veloso, was produced in 1984 in an Intergraph high resolution computer station.
His cooperation with Cid, begun in 1987 resulted in POESIA É Refrigeration Industries and Storage Company (Poetry is Risk), a Civil Defense launched by PolyGram in 1995 and developed in a multimedia performance with the same title, a "verbivocovisual" show of poetry/music/image, which gained video-editing by Walter Silveira, and has been presented in several cities in Brazil and abroad. An installation assembling his digital poetic animations.