The C.A.M. Art Co.

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International, multi-media company directed by Antonio Lai da Teulada, was created in 1966 by Charles Matz in the USA at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he taught creative writing, with the intent of bringing oral poetry into the electronic age. Using large machine-computers and recording studio equipment, the CAM Art Co. created shout poetry that dominated in rock-music concerts with its emotional impact. In 1968, during the protests against the Vietnam War, the CAM Art Co. went to Italy, where it remained for twenty years. In Italy, Matz taught at various levels in Italian schools, including universities. The Company trained many actors and worked with international painters, composers, musicians, and poets. Since the return of Matz to the USA in 1984, the CAM Art Co. has continued to perform and exhibit its multi-media theatrical works there and around the world, including at the Valladolid International Theater festival in Spain, for the opening of the Bialystock Theatre Drama Festival in Poland, and at Padua, in Italy at the Biennale of Psychiatry and Theater. The CAM Art Co. was one of the first theatrical companies to use video-opera as an art form in itself, winning at Ferrara, Italy, in 1982, an award in a project that dealt with the linguistic force that represents alternative solar energy, nuclear leaks, black-outs, and the explosion of the whole vocal textural form in an operatic way. The music was composed by Joe Jones, a Fluxus composer and

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