Early in the 1960s, the German computer arts pioneers and the Brazilian concrete poets were brought together by their shared interest in new information technologies. Departing from this fortuitous encounter, Gabriel Menotti will explore the paths taken by media arts in Brazil from the postwar avant-gardes to the tactical media and FLOSS communities emerging at the turn of the millennium. This talk draws from an upcoming anthology supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.