Though video text technology may now be obsolete, many of the reflections written on it suggest characteristics of telematics, as well as the idea of “networks,” that would become daily realities with widespread use of the personal computer and of the internet. Multimedia artist, professor, and theorist Julio Plaza (1938–2003) was active in the Conceptual and electronic art movements in Brazil. He is also known for his work on a number of Concrete poems. In conjunction with poet Augusto de Campos, he produced book-like objects such as Poemóbiles (1974) and Caixa Preta (1975). Plaza was a professor in the Departamento de Multimeios at the Instituto de Artes da UNIcamp in Campinas and in the Departamento de Artes Plásticas of the Escola de Comunicações e Artes at the Universidade de São Paulo (ECA/USP). In 1982, he organized Arte pelo Telefone: Videotexto at the Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo, a groundbreaking exhibition of video text in Brazil; he curated a special section on new media at the seventeenth São Paulo Biennial in 1983, an incipient moment for electronic art in Brazil. Plaza’s doctoral thesis, which was later published as a book, addressed the notion of intersemiotic translation of media by which literary texts are rendered in visual and sound codes. Professor Walter Zanini, director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), wrote two texts on Plaza’s production: one on the show Poéticas Visuais (doc. no. 1110585) and the other, entitled “Primeiros tempos da arte/tecnologia no Brasil,” on this text (doc. no. 1111029). For further reading, see the following texts also by Plazas: “77: quase-apresentação” (doc. no. 1110719); “Arte e interatividade: autor-obra-recepção” (doc. no. 1111093): “Busca da dimensão mais firme para a realidade” (doc. no. 1110750); “Câmara obscura” (doc. no. 1110718); “Imagemega” (doc. no. 1111133); “Info foto: grafias” (doc. no. 1111091); “O livro como forma de arte (I)” (doc. no. 1111238) and “(…) (II)” (doc. no. 1111239); “Mail-art: arte em sincronia” (doc. no. 1110592); “Manifiesto pro integración” (doc. no. 1110751); “Nem oito, nem oitenta: oi, tô aí” (doc. no. 1111270); “Poéticas visuais” (doc. no. 1110587); and “Transcriar” (doc. no. 1111237).