FileRoom.org - Muntadas, 'TVE: Primer Intento'.
Muntadas chose the Chicago situation because the Cultural Center functions somewhere between the public space of a street and the specialized space of a museum. Since the organizing principle of The File Room is that of an archive, its place in Chicago becomes doubly resonant.
Antoni Muntadas’s The File Room is a temporary physical installation and an open-ended online database that contain records of past cases of censorship around the world. Its mission—to reintroduce deleted and suppressed material back into the public record—could never be completed, and so visitors were invited to add their own instances of artistic and cultural censorship to an open.
Artist: Antonio Muntadas Confronting Bodies: Spanish Television T.V.E. Date of Action: 1988 Specific Location: Spain Description of Artwork: TVE: Primer Intento; a documentary of Spanish Television Description of Incident: In 1988 the program METROPOLIS of TVE invited me to produce a new work.I propose to do a work about the Spanish Television.
The File Room Antonio Muntadas The File Room are now keeping their activities on the Internet.
The File Room is an illustrated archive of cases of cultural censorship on the WWW, conceived by artist Antonio Muntadas and developed by a large group of artists, researchers and technologists.It was presented as a public interactive installation at the Chicago Cultural Center (May - Sept., 1994). I served as Production Coordinator for the File Room project - I designed and implemented the.
Initiated as an artist's project by Muntadas, The File Room was originally produced by Randolph Street Gallery (a non-profit artist run center in Chicago,IL, 1979-1998) with the support of the School of Art and Design and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Muntadas's File Room currently leads a double life on-line as an artwork (to those who recognize it as such) and as an interactive data base. Conceptual artists like Muntadas not only blur the boundary separating non-art from art, but question conventional approaches to duration, as in videotapes like the leisurely-paced TVE: Primer Intento.
Antonio Muntadas. The File Room began as an idea-an abstract construction which developed into a prototype of an interactive and open system, locating and addressing the concept of cultural censorship. The File Room is a social sculpture, first physically installed at the Chicago Cultural Center.
From a critical perspective, his work addresses social, political, and communications issues from all around the world, such as the relationship between public and private space within specific social frameworks, and investigates channels of information, and the ways they may be used to censor or promulgate ideas.
Internationally acclaimed conceptual artist Antonio Muntadas will feature in an exhibition opening at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on February 7, 2001. Muntadas-On Translation: The Audience will comprise three installations: The Board Room, Between the Frames, and a site-specific piece that is part of the artist's ongoing project On Translation.
Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) is an international multimedia artist, who resides in New York since 1971. Spanish media artist; teaches at Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
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Muntadas, Antoni: Between the Lines. Closed circuit installation consisting of a monitor connected to the TV signal, four cameras, four monitors, software and a wooden projection room.
