Flavio de Carvalho: Media Artist Avant la Lettre
Fig. 3.
Experiencia #3, 1956, consisted of Carvalho's wearing and publicizing a provocative summer outfit of his own design. The ensemble, presented as men's attire, included short skirt, blouson and sandals to be worn with or without fishnet hosiery. The artist argued that under tropical heat men should use more comfortable clothes and not imported garments such as suits and ties. Carvalho paraded the new style (a) on the street (Photo © Archive J. Toledo); (b) in a newsroom (Photo
This article is part of the Leonardo special project A Radical Intervention: The Brazilian Contribution to the International Electronic Art Movement," guest edited by Eduardo Kac.
For the print version of this article, see Leonardo Volume 37, No. 2 (2004), available from the MIT Press.
Updated 31 April 2010