Muntadas Antoni
born in 1942
performer, videographer, media artist, photographer, visual artist, teacher, writer
Antoni Muntadas has produced a body of work across diverse media, including photography, video, publications, the Internet, multimedia installations and urban interventions. Through his projects, Muntadas addresses social, political and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigations of channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor information or promulgate ideas.
Deconstructing the systems of representation and information that pervade the contemporary "media landscape," Muntadas posits a compelling discourse on the "invisible mechanisms" that inform the production and reception of mass media texts. Reading "between the lines" to decode the subjective and objective meanings and interpretations of media language and images, Muntadas analyzes the consumption of information and the process by which it is mediated and manipulated for power, propaganda, and profit.
Strategies of fragmentation, decomposition, isolation, reframing, and disintegration of words and images are integral to his inquiry into how facts and information are mediated or contextualized for the viewer/reader. Deconstructing the form of what he terms the "ecology" of the media — cinema and television credits, advertising slogans, the editing of a news story — he deciphers how its ideological content functions in relation to economic, social and political systems.
source: http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=285
