Political Advertisement 1952-2012. Film Screening & Discussion
Five days before the 2012 U.S. presidential election, artists Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese present a new installment of their twenty-eight-year project Political Advertisement. It includes rare footage from the artists' own archives, updated during every election since 1984. Compiled and edited by Muntadas and Reese, the stream of thirty-second TV spots runs without commentary for an hour. In the discussion that follows, the artists and Professor of Media Studies Carol Wilder discusses how the development of televised media and electoral politics have become increasingly inseparable (image: Still from television spot for 1952 Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson II). Free admission.