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ASA Art and Technology
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photo: © Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, 2016
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When Joaquim José Pereira Ruivo,
director of the magnificent Monastery of Batalha, in Portugal,
invited me to hold a lecture on contemporary art, I accepted
immediately. Batalha, a fabulous Flaming Gothic building, was
one of the places I often visited with my grandparents and my
parents yet in the 1960s. But to do it, I would have to take
a deep dive into the prehistory designing a a fast flight in
the fields of neuroaesthetics.
I started studying the Theory of Thought in the 1970s, through
the brilliant universe elaborated by Charles Sanders Peirce -
of which I never left. I had great masters, especially Roti Nielba
Turin and Décio Pignatari. Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster
Fuller were friends of my teachers. It was a world intensely
oriented to discovery.
Soon later, in the early 1980s, I began to develop studies on
neuroaesthetics, where I got some guidance from the celebrated
neurologist Gerald Edelman.
Months before that kind invitation for the lecture, we had made
a film inside the magnificent fourteenth century monastery: my
dear friend and great Portuguese musician Carlos Martins on saxophone
and I on transverse flute, in a deep dialogue in improvisation.
The film, produced by Cabiria Productions, had our dear friend
Luca Alverdi as executive producer and editor, Thierry Bertini
as director, my daughter Laura Pimenta as direction assistant,
Mathieu Mohrain as director of photography, João Frederico
Ludovice as director of production and Henrique Brion as sound
engineer.
We chose July 15, 2017 for the lecture and the world premiere
of this short musical film.
It may seem of no special significance, but it was on July 15,
1799, that Pierre-François Bouchard - a French captain
who participated in the Egyptian Campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte
- discovered the Rosetta Stone, which would mean a formidable
opening for worlds that were hidden beneath the veil of time.
It can be a good omen!
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, 2017
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