[-empyre-] Jorge Luiz Antonio -> Regina Célia Pinto

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Many thanks to you, Jorge, for your participation the last 9 days on digital
poetry in Brazil. Your concern with the "pluridimensions" of language both
through types of writing and the media in which language operates is much
appreciated. And, as well, the way you track the urls and print works of
Brazilian poetry provides people with the opportunity to get to know this
work themselves, also.

Now we turn to the work of Regina Célia Pinto until the 27th of the month.
Regina has recently finished a new piece of net.art, so we will have the
opportunity to check that out as well as other of her online works that
explore the notion of the game and a synthesis of the visual and literary,
among other things. As she has pointed out this month, she is also engaged
in the creation of artists' books. And recently some of her work was shown
in a gallery in Rio, so I am interested to hear about that experience, also.

Regina has written an introduction, which she will post to start our
exploration of her work and concerns.

REGINA CÉLIA PINTO

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Regina Célia Pinto is a researcher, visual artist
and teacher. She earned a teaching certificate in Drawing and Art at the
Escola de Belas Artes of the Universidade Federal in Rio de Janeiro, 1974 -
1977. She has a Master's degree in Art History, specializing in the
Anthropology of Art / EBA, UFRJ, 1994. Her Master's thesis is titled: "Four
views in search of a reader, important women, art and identity," 1994, EBA,
UFRJ. She has written a variety of academic works, including published
scientific essays. As a visual artist, she has participated in several
exhibitions and curated several. Her interest in web.art started in 1997.
She created and publishes arteonline.arq.br which, since July 2001, is
called The Museum of the Essential and Beyond That. She believes that one of
the good characteristics of globalization is it allows the exchange of
national and international artistic experiences.

Thank you, Jorge and Regina.

ja