M 3X3 1973

The dancer, choreographer, and video artist Analivia Cordeiro is a pioneer of computer dance. In 1973, she created a videographic method in which the movements of the dancer and those of the camera are synced.

Cordeiro is the daughter of the artist Waldemar Cordeiro, a major figure in the Brazilian movement known as concretism, whose influence, together with that of Oskar Schlemmer, makes itself felt in works in which the abstract geometric compositional elements characteristic of concrete art are applied to organic images. In videos such as M 3x3, the body's movements are seen as abstract formal elements that explore the space during a fluid continuum of time, proposing a new dance language as the dancers move mechanically in a high-contrast black-and-white 3x3 matrix.

While at the time, their actions voiced a critique of Brazil's repressive military dictatorship (1964–85), the artist now considers the work a commentary on today's technologized society as well. M 3x3 brings together Cordeiro's knowledge of mathematics and dance and made use of her experimental computer-dance method, which—well ahead of its time—envisioned harmony between dance and technology.

M 3x3 is considered the first work of video art produced in Latin America.