Augusto de Campos (1931) was born in São Paolo. Poet, translator, music critic and visual artist, de Campos was – together with his brother Haroldo de Campos – the founder of the Concrete Poetry movement in Brazil. Augusto and Haroldo first launched the literary magazine Noigandres, then in 1956 they declared the beginning of a movement. A number of collections and honours followed. Between the 1950s and the 1970s de Campos practiced visual poetry primarily, then turned to experiments with the new media, presenting his poems on electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, and computer graphics, and staging multimedia events such as the plurivocal reading of CIDADECITYCITÉ with his son, composer Cid Campos (1987, 1991). This father-son cooperation resulted in Poesia é risco (Poetry is Risk), a CD and a multimedia performance, a “verbivocovisual” show of poetry, music, and image, which has been presented in several cities in Brazil and abroad.