Flavio de Carvalho: Media Artist Avant la Lettre

Article frontispiece. Experiência #3 (Experience #3), 1956. Flávio de Carvalho parading his new style on the street (top; Photo © Archive J. Toledo) and in a newsroom (bottom; Photo © Biblioteca e Centro de Documentacão do Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand). The artist argued that under tropical heat men should use more comfortable clothes and not imported garmented such as suits and ties.

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