Dream Television: Cultural Television Planetary Network for the World Peace

Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas De Melo

ISBN 10: 1522724117 / ISBN 13: 9781522724117

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Seller Inventory # I-9781522724117

Synopsis:

Television Dream – Cultural Television Planetary Network for the World Peace is the history of a project, created in the 1990s, for a fabulous international television network oriented to culture and art, in order to promote world peace. That is also the history of the original CPLP Television Network – of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries. The CPLP is composed of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome Principe and Timor Lorosae. The project was ended when the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 happened, because of the economic problems provoked by the international crisis. The book brings the models and the structure adopted for this project in the 1990s. Initiated by the architect, urban planner, writer and philosopher Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, the fundamental team of development soon counted with the participation of João Barba, great expert on television in Portugal, and Durval de Noronha Goyos, renowned lawyer, arbitrator of the World Trade Organization and one of the responsible for the legal design of Mercosul - Common Market of the South American Countries.

About the Author: Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta has been considered an important musician, architect, writer, photographer and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, René Berger, Daniel Charles, Dove Bradshaw, Phill Niblock or William Anastasi among others. With several international prizes, more than seventy published books, many electronic books and thirty audio compact discs, his works are included in some of the most important art collections and world-wide recognized institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennale of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others. His works are also included in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker’s Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall’s Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert’s Guide to the Best Cds. Legendary musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Maurizio Barbetti, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remained composer for Merce Cunningham along more than twenty-five years, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept of virtual architecture and designed the first virtual planet in history. He is member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics, of the SACD Paris, of the Council of Architects in Brazil and of the Order of Architects in Portugal among other institutions. He is founder of the SA2 Space Art Association; he is also founder and director of the Arts, Sciences and Technology Foundation - Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal (www.asa-art.com/facto.html). He is co-founder and director of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy (www.asa-art.com/holotopiaacademy.html). Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland - but he is also based in New York and Lisbon. His website is www.emanuelpimenta.net

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dream Television: Cultural Television ...
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New