The File Room Muntadas

Produced by randolph street gallery in the chicago cultural center this exhibition of muntadas may september 1994 has counted with the peculiarity to be able to visit in internet.

The file room muntadas.

Visitors entered a small ominous room lined with file cabinets. 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 ended archive which has now been restored by rhizome. In these pages we will try to indicate the contents general of the piece although in any case we animated those interested to that they provechen the opportunity to directly know the file room in. 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 1994 by antonio muntadas is one of the earliest online media art works. Antoni muntadas the file room. It invokes questions about the character of censorship itself and offers a repository or hidden history of thwarted personal and communal expression. 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.

There they could approach a computer terminal to browse archives or submit their own accounts of censorship. 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.