The File Room Muntadas

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.

The file room muntadas.

At the center of a dark oppressive room lined with filing cabinet drawers sat a computer where visitors could access and contribute to an ever growing archive of censorship cases. By diego luna delgado and josé coordinador candón mena. Webshot debuting in 1994 this interactive archive of two millennia of social and cultural censorship chronicles hundreds of cases of perceived censorship sometimes but not always covered in the media or other public forums. The file room un proyecto de a.

Antoni muntadas the file room a temporary physical installation and a permanent expandable database in the virtual interactive and multimedia space of the internet and the world wide web all of it referring to censorship and to those of an artistic or cultural order specifically on a world scale and ranging from historic cases to those that are more incandescently current. Considered one of the pioneers of media art and conceptual art in spain for over four decades antoni muntadas barcelona 1942 has been creating projects that foment critical reflection about key issues in the configuration of contemporary experience. En este trabajo se proponen una serie de reflexiones en torno al concepto de ciberartivismo tomando como objeto de estudio el proyecto the file room 1994 del artista antoni muntadas. 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.

Electronic visualization laboratory at the university of illinois at chicago. Since 2001 the file room tfr has been hosted and maintained by the national coalition. His aim is to detect and decode the control and power mechanisms through which hegemonic ways of seeing are built exploring. Read article by dillon petito on rhizome.

Antoni muntadas the file room courtesy the artist. The file room 1994 by antonio muntadas is one of the earliest online media art works. Muntadas en internet s i. Cinco anos de pesquisa de antónio muntadas culminaram no projecto the file room em 1994 concebido como protótipo de um sistema interactivo e aberto baseado num arquivo não no aspecto tradicional mas como um método alternativo de coleccionar disponibilizar e processar informação que estimulasse o diálogo sobre questões relacionadas com a censura um conceito.

The file room opened at the chicago cultural center in 1994. About the file room by antoni muntadas. Antoni muntadas barcelona 1942 is an international multimedia artist who resides in new york since 1971.