On Translation: Social Networks is a data visualisation in which the language used by a wide range of international organisations is scraped from websites and analysed in order to explore the complex networks of economic, cultural, technological and military systems operating today.
The vocabulary used by the various organisations is given a geo-spatial reference according to the location of its source and colour coded along axes representing the different types of systems under focus.
The data constantly evolves and the results are projected live onto a world map in the gallery.
Antoni Muntadas has lived and worked in New York since 1971. His work 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 central information or promulgate ideas. He works in different media such as photography, video, publications, the internet and multi-media installations.
He studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales in Barcelona, and the Pratt Graphic Center in New York.. He has taught and directed seminars at the University of California, San Diego, the Cooper Union, New York, the CAVS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the San Francisco Art Institute, all in the USA; the École Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux and Grenoble, all in France; the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and many other institutions.
Muntadas has received several prizes and grants including those of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, all USA; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Laser d’Or, Locarno, Switzerland and the Premi Nacional d’Arts Plastiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain.
He has been commissioned to create works by the Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Paris, and the Fonds d’Arts Publiques, Marseille; the Public Art Fund in New York, USA; and has been a resident artist and consulting advisor in several research and education centers including the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, USA; the Banff Center, Canada; Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain; and the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
His works have been exhibited throughout the world, including the Venice Biennial; Documenta Vl and X, Kassel; the São Paulo Biennial; the Lyon Biennial; the Havana Biennial; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Berkeley Art Museum, California; the Wexner Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio;;le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; le Capc de Bordeaux; the Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro; the Ludwig Museum, Budapest; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
