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Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta's works are included
            in some of the most expressive art collections and world-wide
            recognised institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York,
            the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennial of Venice,
            the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus of Zurich,
            the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque
            Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto
            and Trento among others. He develops music, architecture and
            urban projects using Virtual Reality and Cyberspace technologies.
            His concerts of music integrating visual art have been performed
            in various countries in the last twenty years, since his great
            concert at the Biennial of Sao Paulo, for four large orchestras,
            in 1985, side by side with John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro
            Chia and Robert Raushemberg among others. His works are included
            in the Universalis Encyclopaedia (Britannica) since 1991, in
            the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles
            Hall's Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as
            in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds.
            With more than four hundred musical compositions already recorded,
            twenty published compact discs, four cd-roms, he has wrote and
            published about thirty books, several of them individually, and
            several papers. His works have been regularly published in England,
            the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil,
            Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy and Spain. He has also been
            curator for various institutions, like the Biennial of Sao Paulo,
            in Brazil; the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Portugal; the
            Triennial of Milan, in Italy; and the Belem Cultural Centre,
            in Lisbon, among others. 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. He won the National 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 Lombardia Regional Government,
            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 researchers of the world. He is member of the SACD
            - Societè des Autheurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in
            Paris since 1991. He also is an active member of the European
            Environmental Tribunal, http://www.eeft.org/eeft.html, in London,
            where he has been 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 and of the ASMP
            - American Society of Media Photographers. He is member and advisor
            of the AIVAC - Association Internationale pour la Video dans
            les Arts et la Culture, in Locarno, Switzerland. He was a founding
            member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary
            Study of Symmetry - ISIS Symmetry, in Budapest. Mr. Pimenta has
            been frequently invited, as professor and lecturer, by several
            institutions, among then the Universities of New York, Lisbon,
            Florence, Lausanne, Tsukuba, Georgetown, São Paulo, Palermo,
            the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verita Foundation
            in Switzerland and the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel. He
            his director of the contemporary music festival HOLOTOPIA, in
            Naples, Italy. He is also founder and director of the Foundation
            for Arts, Sciences and Technology - Observatory, in Trancoso,
            Portugal. Emanuel Pimenta lives in Porto Ronco, Switzerland,
            near Locarno - but he is always travelling to New York and Lisbon.

            
For a larger
            bio, please see http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/bio/ENPimenta.html