Meeting with Antoni Muntadas
Workshop on Communication and Cultural Criticism in Web Environments
University of Malaga
TWO ACTIVITIES:
MEETING WITH ANTONI MUNTADAS
The 24 September the interview with Antoni Muntadas, coordinated by Modesta di Paola and Nuria Rodríguez Ortega will take place at the Student Self-managed Space «La Cafetería de Bellas Artes», Faculty of Fine Arts, UMA 19:00 h.
Free access until full capacity is reached
DATA
- TitleMeeting with Antoni Muntadas
- Modality: face-to-face
- Development24 September 2024
- CoordinationModesta Di Paola (UMA) and Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (UMA)
- Capacityfree until completion
- Place: Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Málaga
WORKSHOPS
To participate in the workshops, held between 23 and 27 September, and given that the number of places is limited (10), those interested should send an e-mail with a letter of motivation of a maximum of 250 words to Modesta di Paola (modestadipaola@uma.es).
DATA
- TitleWorkshop on Communication and Cultural Criticism in Web Environments
- Modality: face-to-face
- Development23-27 September 2024
- CoordinationModesta Di Paola (UMA), Iñaki Estella (UCM) and Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (UMA)
- Capacity: 10 students in year IV of Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate courses.
- Deadline19 September at 23:00 h.
- This course is part of the activities of the project ATLAS AV: La audiovisualización de la historia del arte y del museo (PID2022-1367530B-100) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 coordinated by Modesta di Paola (UMA) and Iñaki Estella (UCM); of the project Complexhibit. Estudio e interpretación del dominio de las exposiciones artísticas como sistema cultural complejo mediante analítica de datos y procesamiento del lenguaje natural (PID2021-125037NB-I00) funded by MCIN and coordinated by Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (UMA; as well as the International Network on Digital Developments in Artistic Culture (ReArte.Dix) and the Telefónica-UMA Chair (5G, Digital Culture and New Generation Technologies for Society.
DESCRIPTION
Considered to be one of the pioneers of media art and conceptual art in Spain, Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) has been working for more than four decades on projects that critically reflect on key issues in the configuration of contemporary experience. His aim is to detect and decode the mechanisms of control and power through which the hegemonic gaze is constructed, exploring the decisive role played by the mass media in this process. In his works, in which he often appeals directly to the participation of the public, Muntadas uses multiple media, languages and discursive strategies, from interventions in public spaces to video and photography, from the publication of printed publications to the use of the Internet and new digital tools, from multimedia installations to the implementation of multidisciplinary and collaborative research projects.
The aim of the workshop, which will have a processual dimension, is to establish a framework for shared reflection on the problems related to communication and cultural criticism in digital environments, addressing issues such as the changing relations between the public and the private, the naturalisation of consumerist logic, the processes of cultural homogenisation imposed by globalisation, the use of the digital as a tool for legitimising and influencing economic power, the importance of the mass media in the expansion of financial capitalism, the functioning of the artistic ecosystem and the use of fear of the “other” as a strategy for social control. The workshop also aims to reflect on the configuration of the web3 as an (other) space of discursive, critical and cultural practices that are articulated on the basis of their own logics that must be analysed in the heat of the emerging technologies that configure it.
The workshop is conceived from a transdisciplinary perspective, giving space to professionals and students of Art History, Fine Arts, Communication Sciences, Computer Engineering or Telecommunications Engineering.
Workshop programme:
23 September from 17.00 to 20.00
Classroom 4 of the Gerald Brenan Lecture Hall
25 September from 17.00 to 20.00
Boardroom of the Faculty of Fine Arts - Ed. 2 third floor
26 September from 11:00 to 14:00
Boardroom of the Faculty of Fine Arts - Ed. 2 third floor
27 September from 17.00 to 20.00
Boardroom of the Faculty of Fine Arts - Ed. 2 third floor
