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==External links== |
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*[http://www.kentgallery.com/munbio.htm Extended biography] |
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*[http://www.thefileroom.org/ The File Room] |
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*[http://adaweb.walkerart.org/influx/muntadas/ On Translation] |
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Revision as of 19:44, 13 May 2010
Antoni Muntadas (born in 1942 in Barcelona) is a multidisciplinary, media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. Since 1971, he lives and works in New York. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,1977-1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with MIT Visual Arts Program. His work has been exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale, documenta 6 and documenta X.
In 1995, he was awarded an Ars Electronica Honorary Mention for his well-known work "The File Room".[1] It is an early and ongoing Internet art project, started in 1994, consisting of an open database of cases of censorship. Another long-term work, "On Translation" [2], deals with language and the notion of translation, interpretation and transcription. The project was realized in various formats over the years, including several different exhibitions and a website hosted by the seminal Internet art gallery äda'web.
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Recently he won the Visual Arts prize "Vasconcelos" in Spain