The instant of consciousness overstepping boundaries: Spain's famous architect Antonio Muntadas will give a lecture at the Long March Space on Sunday.


The famous architect and media artist Antonio Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942 and in 1971 he moved to New York. Antonio Muntadas takes information transfer within the societal structure as the main topic of his investigative works, stirring up the peripheral position of language.
Using video, sound, film, and architecture the artist systematically explores the possibility of cultural interpretation and translation, the conceptual exchange between symbols, constructions and institutions, the invisible failings as well as the invisible re-constructions in the process of information transfer, and the unconscious political vocabulary of media and construction research, etc. From 1977-84, Muntadas was a research fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and received fellowships from both the Guggenheim and the American National Endowment for the Arts. Now, he is a visiting lecturer in art and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

After finishing his business in Tokyo, Muntadas stops over in Beijing. He says that it is the curator Okwui Enwezor who told him that he must visit Beijing because it is the most energetic place in the world right now. The other day, Muntadas visited the multitude of art spaces at the 798 Factory as well as Ai Weiwei's studio and other places. Thoroughly excited, he proposed to hold a lecture to connect for the first time with Chinese artists. We believe that this activity organized by the Long March Space is only the first of many to come. The lecture will introduce all kinds of works by Muntadas completed between 1971 and 2003, including slide shows, films and CD-Rom. Muntadas is also the first artist to do Internet art. Furthermore, everyone will be able to see the important piece 'On Translation' completed in 1995.