In M3x3 (1973), Analívia Cordeiro (1954, São Paulo) combines digital technology with dance and video. The choreography performed by the nine dancers is conceived by a computer program, the artist explains: ‘For TV, I defined the point of view of the shot, the zoom in or out, the time and the visual effects. The output for the dancers was the body positions drawn according to the television camera’s point of view and the time between the positions. The TV team received instructions that included all the takes with time stamps and the visual effects... I used a Digital PDP-11 computer with 5 MB of storage and 256 KB of memory capacity. And the body position output was a vector of six numbers corresponding to the left leg, right leg, left arm, right arm, torso and head. Decoding the numbers for a stick figure was done manually, as there were no graphic plotters in Brazil at the time.’ The piece with its mechanical movement and binary representation (in black and white) was conceived to reflect technological and political change, Cordeiro explains: ‘The whole world was under the domination of mass media, and the main subject was what mass media would do with people, transforming people into objects without identity, without individuality. On the other hand, there was a dictatorship in Brazil that was transforming people into non-identities, because people could not have their own opinion; they were instructed to follow the rules of the government.’