The exhibition was curated by Ruggero Maggi. The essays and art works in this book all relate to the chaos and fractal theory in mathematics, art and poetry. As Angelo Bertani writes in his essay, On Apparent Order and Chaos, "What seems to be extremely significant is the artist's need (now extremely widespread) to go out from protected, appointed places and instead, contend directly with existence, with the richess of material, with the spaces of life: in this sense, the creeping crisis of painting, the growing prevalence of installations and video-works are a sign, beyond the current fashion of the will to contend with change, accident and the relative: the other names for chaos. Moreover, in a world where technology prevails, perhaps only the ways of art can inser ta fragment of liberty into the oppressive mechanism of necessity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The festival was organized by Fernando Aguiar "to present, for the first time in Portugal, recent words by a group of the most significant international avant-garde poets..to provide a widened vision of...poetry with experimental features." Essays on Visual, Concrete and Performance Poetry and Mail Art were contributed by De Melo e Castro, Aguiar, Bory, Heidsieck, Arias-Misson, Ferrando, Hatherly, Higgins, Kac, Olbrich, de Kroon, Miccini, Pimenta & Zink. 177 small mags and documents related to the theme are listed in the final section of this catalogue. The pages of this book have become unbound from the spine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.