In chronological order

Não!, 1982/84 - Created in 1982 and presented on an electronic signboard in 1984 at the Centro Cultural Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese). "Não!" is organized in text blocks which circulate in virtual space at equal intervals, leaving the screen blank prior to the flow of the next text block. The visual rhythm thus created alternates between appearance and disappearance of the fragmented verbal material, asking the reader to link them semantically as the letters go by. The internal visual tempo of the poem is added to the subjective performance of the reader. The poem was realized on a LED display. See it now

Reabracadabra, 1985 - Videotext animated poem shown in 1985 in the group exhibition Arte On-Line, a national videotext art gallery presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo. An incantatory word of Kaballistic resonance is rendered as a cosmic monolith following the atomic model (the vowel as nucleous and the consonants as orbiting particles). Please click here to see stills. See it now

Tesão, 1985/86 - Videotext animated poem shown online in the group exhibition Brazil High-Tech (1986), a national videotext art gallery organized by Eduardo Kac and Flavio Ferraz and presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo (in Portuguese). Please click here to see stills. See it now

Recaos, 1986 - Videotext animated poem shown in the group exhibition Brazil High-Tech (1986), a national videotext art gallery organized by Eduardo Kac and Flavio Ferraz and presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo (in Portuguese). Please click here to see a still. See it now

D/eu/s, 1986 - Videotex animated poem shown in the group exhibitionBrazil High-Tech (1986), a national videotext art gallery organized byEduardo Kac and Flavio Ferraz and presented by Companhia Telefônicade São Paulo (in Portuguese). Please click here to see a still. See it now

OCO, 1985/90 - Runtime looped animation(Macintosh). Please use StuffIt Expander to uncompress it. OCO exploresthe three-dimensional architecture of the letters O, C, and I, and themultiple meanings (in Portuguese) that emerge when the letter I appearsand disappears rhythmically in virtual space. These meanings emerge throughthe cognitive associations made by the viewer as well as the perceivedspatial relationships between the letters. Please click hereto see a still. See it now

IO, 1990 - Available in a VRML translationof the original Alias file. Three-dimensional navigational poem in whichthe letters/numbers I and O appear as elements of an imaginary landscape.IO is "I" in Italian. In this piece it also stands for reconciled differences(one/zero, line/circle, etc.). The reader is invited to explore the spacecreated by the stylized letters and experience it both as an abstract environmentand as a visual text. The expanded self invites navigation. Please clickhereto see a still of the original IO (1990). See it now

Storms, 1993 - An interactive hypertext piece based on the sefirotic tree of the Kabbalah. "Storms" is organized in vocalic and consonantal bifurcations. To navigate through the poem one is invited to click on a letter at any given time. In some instances, navigation can also take place by clicking outside the word. If the reader does not make a choice, that is, if he or she does not click on a vowel or consonant, or in some instances also on empty space, the reader will remain stationary. The poem does not have an ending. This means that one can continue to explore different textual navigation possibilities or quit at anytime. 65K compressed Hypercard stack (Macintosh). See it now

Accident, 1994 - Language is bornand dies in this looped digital video. 1,1K compressed Runtime MacromediaDirector (Macintosh). File may appear in the System Folder after downloading.Please use MacBinary II+ and StuffIt Expander to uncompress it. Click here to see six frames of Accident. See it now

UPC, 1994 - In this looped and silent installation-poem 7-foot tallletters are projected against the wall. They emerge out of focus on theright, move across diagonally into focus, and disappear again out of focusto the left. Literal and at the same time metaphorical, the verbal materialevokes multiple analogies: "Nothing Above To Left Or Right Nothing Below".Please click here to see stills of this installation-poem. See it now

Insect.Desperto, 1995 - Verbalfireflies vanish between Portuguese and English.. 664K compressed and archived(Macintosh). File may appear in the System Folder after downloading. Pleaseuse MacBinary II+ and StuffIt Expander to uncompress it. To see framesof this work, please click here. See it now

Secret, 1996 - This VRML navigational poem, the first of its kind, will be automatically downloaded to your desktop or it will be displayed inline on your web browser. 8K uncompressed (Macintosh and PC). Please note that you must have a VRML browser or a plug-in to see it. The words in "Secret" are dispersed in the semantic darkness of a potential space. The reader is invited to navigate this space and create verbal and visual links between immaterial presences, voids, and distant signs. See it now

Wine, 1996 - A delicate and silent animation.It suggests an inebriate mental state in which foreground and backgroundblend in almost undifferentiated fashion. The poem articulates the fleetingapparitions of the words from within themselves, as if one word would writeanother. Words will momentarily manifest themselves in unexpected areason the screen, often bordering the very edge. The piece communicates asmuch through the verbal apparitions as it does through their carefullyorchestrated evanescence. Please click here tosee a still. See it now

Letter, 1996 - A VRML poem that presents the viewer with the image of a three-dimensional spiral jetting off the center of a two-dimensional spiral. Both spirals are made exclusively of text. The reader is able to grab and spin this cosmic verbal image in all directions. Thus, reading becomes a process of probing the virtual object from all possible angles. The reader is also able to fly through and around the object, thus expanding reading possibilities. In "Letter" a spiraling cone made of words can be interpreted as both converging to or diverging from the flat one. Together they may evoke the creation or destruction of a star. All texts are created as if they were fragments of letters written to the same person. However, in order to convey a particular emotional sphere, Kac conflated the subject positions of grandmother, mother, and daughter into one addressee. It is not possible to distinguish to whom each fragment is addressed. The poem makes reference to moments of death and birth in the artist's family. Please click hereto see a still. See it now

Reversed Mirror, 1997- A 7-minute, silent, single-channel digitalvideopoem. This work takes language into a domain of trance where the subtledissolution and reconfiguration of verbal particles is charged with a feelingthat is at once calm and tense. Ten frames of this work can be seen here. Collection ZKM Museum, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (1/5) Collection Museo extremeño e iberoamericano de arte contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain (2/5) Collection Alfredo Hertzog da Silva, São Paulo (3/5) Collection Silvana Facchini, Miami (4/5) See it now

Perhaps, 1998/1999 - This is the first poem written specificallyfor Internet 2. Please click here to see a still. See it now