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Dedicated to the curator & academic Doctor Jorge Pais de Sousa (1960-2019). The Poema Máquina that is presented here for avatars to be able to write “POEMAS” on online virtual spaces, is part of the problem of an Active Poetics that addresses the new Bards born from 2000 onwards and who naturally resort to mobile devices. We love a poetics of Avatar Action in tune with a new & intense formalist poetics of total scripting. POEMA is always the DNA of each generation!

2020, Silvestre Pestana (aka Vito Flores e BLANK01 aka António Dantas), UNI SÓ VER, Fora inverno, já era primavera, o verão seria glorioso, Espaço Mira online, Porto.

Silvestre Pestana

Silvestre Pestana (1949) born in Funchal, holds a degree in Graphic Arts and Design from ESBAP, a Master's in Teaching Art and Design from De Montford University. He was a professor at the Higher School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. His work is imposed by the radical nature of the interventions that, from the first moment, are supported by an intentional hybridism resulting from the games and permutations between linguistic and non-linguistic signs. A contamination that, in the 1960s and 70s, derives from the use of diverse graphic material, will, in the 80s, find support in the use of video and computer media. Frequently and intentionally mixing issues related to materiality and mediation, his work process is based on digital systems mixed with representation of an analogue nature. His recent works, in the field of performance, in real or virtual spaces such as Second Life, assess the way in which what he terms “experimentalist practices” interfere with the social practices in which they are articulated. Some of his solo exhibitions include: Acrilic Kunst, K Gallery, Stockholm (1972); Poem / Egg, Galeria C.A.P.C. (1977); The Desertas Islands, Tree Gallery (1979); Radiologies, Galeria C.A.P.C. (1980); Bio-Virtual, Tree Gallery (1984); Bio-Virtual, Leo Gallery (1984). He is author of the videos: Ave (1976); Mater (1978); Video poems (1979); Egg (1979); A Computer Story (1979); Necro-Echo (1979); Chronographs (1979); Pyramid (1979); Homeostasis (1980); Geo-Psycho-Verso (1980); Bio-Virtual (1983). Author, in the 80s, of poems programmed for ZX81, ZX82 and, later, in chromatic version for Spectrum, entitled Computer Poetry. He produced musical poetic-graphic scores for Anar Band (Rui Reininho and Jorge Lima Barreto, 1977) and published the book/exhibition catalog Águas Vivas (Galerias Alvarez, 2002). He organized with Fernando Aguiar Poemografias (Book and Traveling Exhibition of Visual Poetry, in 1985), co-organized What is Watt? (since 2001). Since 1978, he has participated in the Vila Nova de Cerveira International Biennial, where in 2003, with the neon installation Águas Vivas, he was awarded the Grand Prix during the XII International Art Biennial of Cerveira. Of note are the most relevant neon installations, Luso Padrão para Marte, 1992/2016; Neon Meteor for Venus, 2003 and Fractal Trees, 2005. His work was the subject of an exhibition in the cycle Nas Escritas PO.EX (Povo Novo Virtual, 2013). He presented interventions during the Sufoco-Intermundos-Drones V cycle, 2014, Espaço Mira, Porto. He co-organized with Celeste Cerqueira the First Virtual Bienal Second Life Cerveira (PT) during the XVII Bienal of 2013. In Lisbon, he presented the work Sufoco (Múrias and Centeno Gallery, 2015). He was one of the artists honored during the 3rd Bienal da Maia_2015, highlighting the installation Vertigem 04: open society. The exhibition Silvestre Pestana: Tecnoforma, curated in 2016 by João Ribas, was the first major exhibition dedicated to the work of Silvestre Pestana at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. The following year, he presented Breathless at the Bloom Projects Exchanges Series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, California in partnership with the space Uma Certa Lack de Coherência. He recently participated in the exhibition of Portuguese Experimental Poetry, CAIXA Cultural Brasília, Brazil, 2018, which was supported by the Portuguese Embassy in Brasília.