emanuel dimas de melo pimenta
architecture
some projects 1980-2008

 

 

In 1980 it was started the project of a virtual planet, the first project of the kind in the world, called Woiksed. It anticipated in more than fifteen years projects like Second Life. It was projected to be open to everyone through the Internet, which did not exist yet when it started. The name Woiksed comes from two Indo European roots - meaning something like the seed of a village. In 1993, the date of the images here presented, the project won the Lac Maggiore Prize, from the Unesco, the Council of Europe, the Regional Government of Lombardia and the AIVAC, the International Association for Video Art and Culture, in Locarno, Switzerland. Woised is a project permanently in progress.

For more information, see
http://www.asa-art.com/woiksed/w.htm and
http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/films/archives/woiksed.html