Arteônica Exhibition by Waldemar Cordeiro

Exhibition · South America

A woman’s face rendered in dense rows of printed computer characters in Waldemar Cordeiro’s A mulher que não é B.B. — Waldemar Cordeiro, A mulher que não é B.B., 1971. A computer-generated work from his Arteônica practice. Waldemar Cordeiro. Image: Waldemar Cordeiro estate website. Image source.

This Sao Paulo exhibition by the Brazilian pioneer, Cordeiro, helped ignite computer art in the region with Brazil and Argentina serving as the cultural bases.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

monoskop.org

People

Waldemar Cordeiro

Movements

computer art, Arteônica

Filed under

Technologies: computer art
People: Waldemar Cordeiro
Works: Arteônica
Places: Argentina, Brazil, South America, São Paulo

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