Ira Schneider

Ira Schneider ( born March 2, 1939 in New York City, USA) is an American photographer, video, installation and media artist.

Life

In 1956 he began his studies of Experimental Psychology and Comparative Literature at Brown University, New York and finished it in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts. This is followed by a semester abroad until 1961 in Munich at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Art History and Linguistics ( English Philology ). This solves stay with him from the first intensive study of German / European art history and also the European film, the cinema in Munich, he was able to study the STUDIO Occamstraße sufficient. During this time it comes to Europe travel to several cities. He went back to America in 1961 to start his masters degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for experimental psychology and philosophy of science, which he completed successfully in 1964.

Video and Photography

With the photography, he begins in 1952; then follow 16- mm film and its video pioneering work began in the mid 60 years, where he accompanied the nightlife of the New York underground scene on video: in a popular little boutique in the bottom of a club is where Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Doors, The Who and many other musicians of rock music occur. 1962-1968 created eight experimental short films, including LOST IN THE GHOST OF Cuddihy and Wittgenstein. He goes 1969 Woodstock Festival and experimenting with the video camera; he does not take the musicians but monitors the road to Woodstock around in the audience, the result is the video Woodstock. With his partner Frank Gillette Ira Schneider realized in 1969 the installation WIPE CYCLE, which is shown together with works by Nam June Paik in the first group exhibition of video art in New York. In 1970 he founded the newspaper Radical Software, for which he has worked as an editor and editors until 1974. Also in 1970, he is also a member of Raindance Foundation, a media ecology-oriented group. 1974 is his first solo exhibition with video installation Manhattan is an Iceland and a group exhibition with the same installation in Syracuse - Museum of Fine Arts ( since 1968 Everson Museum of Fine Arts) New York City. Furthermore, following the video installation Echo from 1975, projected visual echoes of the exhibition visitors. In the year 1976, by Ira Schneider ( co / editor Beryl Korot ) the first book, which deals with the new medium of video as an art form, issued in New York, says VIDEO ART An Anthology. His installation TIMEZONES was first shown in 1981 at the Whitney Museum in New York City and 1984 in a group exhibition of Duchamp, Man Ray, Paik and Monet in Brussels. She was also seen in London, Vienna, Lyon and Mannheim.

One of his most important video A Weekend on the Beach with Jean -Luc Godard from 1984 illustrates the encounter (on the terrace of his beach house in Los Angeles, USA) with Wim Wenders, Jean -Luc Godard and Heiner Müller. With a scholarship he comes to Berlin in 1993, where he lives now and 1995 be developed video data area of ​​Germany. To date, he accompanied the Berlin nightlife with his video camera and photo camera, 1999, he filmed the video Schneider marries his SONYA an agreement with his TV life since his appointment in 1998 its 50th anniversary celebration on the subject of watch TV celebrated. There are always exhibitions of his photographs, in Berlin, he developed his photographic series Baulin, a photo series of footpaths and renovations to homes in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, RGB arises under this series.

Awards

Hannah Höch price of video art in 2006

Exhibitions

  • 2006 New Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
  • 2005 Art Center, Berlin
  • 2004 Too much TV, Berlin, Jose Lite Centrum, Berlin
  • 2003 Linc Art Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2002 Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2001 Studio 63, Berlin
  • 2000 National Gallery, Prague, Budapest Art Academy, HDK Berlin
  • 1998 Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin
  • 1998 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
  • 1997 Institute gallery & shop, Berlin
  • 1997 Anthology Film Archive, N.Y.C.
  • 1996 Shift Gallery, Berlin
  • 1994 Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken
  • 1993 Art Academy Dusseldorf
  • 1988 Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo
  • 1981 Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, "Time Zones, a reality simulation"
  • 1980 Everson Museum, Syracuse, N. Y. "Time Zones"
  • 1979 Environmental Communications & Some Small Business; Venice, Ca.
  • 1979 Boston Film & Video Coop
  • 1978 AVZ GRAZ
  • 1978 Anthology Film Archive, N.Y.C., "Echo "
  • 1977 Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C. " Manhattan is an Iceland "
  • Synapse 1976, Syracuse University, N.Y.C. "Echo"
  • 1975 The Kitchen, N.Y.C. " Video 75 "
  • 1974 The Kitchen, N.Y.C. " Manhattan is an Iceland "

Group Exhibitions

  • 2007 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, " Manhattan is an Iceland ", with Paik, Takahiko Iimura, Joan Logue, Wolf Vostell and other
  • 2007 Gallery of the Arts, Berlin Strictly Berlin " 007 - Targets of Opportunity " (curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl )
  • 2006 Gallery of the Arts, Berlin Strictly Berlin " 2000-2006 " (curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl )
  • 2005 ZuvielTV, Art Salon Berlin; KunstFilmBiennale premiere, Köln.Zamek, Poznan
  • 2004 Nikolai Gallery, Copenhagen - Max's Kansas City Club Show
  • 2003 Kunstpunkt Berlin, with Emmett Williams / Ann Noel
  • 2002 Kunstpunkt Berlin
  • 1999/2000 Art Forum, Berlin
  • 1998 Museum of Modern Art, N. Y.
  • 1997 Art Forum, Messe Berlin, Berlin Art Club
  • 1994 Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C. " TV as a Creative Medium", 25th anniversary of the first video group show in NYC (1969 ) at the Howard Wise Gallery, with Nam June Paik, Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan and other
  • 1994 America House, Berlin, Fulbright meetings, " walks through the German states "
  • 1991 The Kitchen, N.Y.C. Raindance Foundation 20th. anniversary exhibition; Beryl Korot, Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan and Davidson Gigliotti
  • 1989 Congress Hall, Berlin, Video Sculpture, about 45 installations, " Wipe Cycle " with Frank Gillette
  • 1989 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Video Sculpture, about 45 installations, " Wipe Cycle " with Frank Gillette, Paik, Kubota, Oursler, Shaw Campus, Levine, Schwartz, Graham, Muntades and other
  • 1985 traveling show, Time, the fourth dimension in Art, The Barbican Centre London, Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Museum Nouvelle Lyon, Kunsthalle Mannheim,
  • 1984 Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Time, the fourth dimension in Art, "Time Zones" ( videotapes of 24 different time zone shots around the globe, recorded in those days ), with Duchamp, Man Ray, Paik, Monet, D. Oppenheim, Rodin and other
  • 1980 Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY "Time Zones", with Paik, Gillette & other
  • 1975 Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
  • 1975 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
  • 1974 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • 1969 Howard Wise Gallery, NYC, TV as a Creative Medium, " Wipe Cycle " with F. Gillette, and work from Paik Paik / Charlotte Moorman, Paul Ryan, Aldo Tambolini and Andren

Video works

  • 2005 " More or Less Related Incidents in Recent History " (A ) 39min, "-.
  • 2005 "(A ) 28" 30 "" to information collage
  • 2004 " 2 2 = 4" (D) 30sec.
  • 2003 "The Two Woodstock Festivals of 1994 " (D) 24min.
  • 2002 " Bob Rutman, Artist, Musician, instrument maker" (D) 60min.
  • 2001 " TV as a Creative Medium" (D) from 1969.11 min. b / w, " Vision and Television" (D) from 1970, 35 min. b / w. "Brazil, the Sleeping Giant" (A / D) 58 min. ;
  • 2000 "How Bill Viola Does It " (A) 2minutes;
  • 1998 " Nam June Paik is eating Sushi in South Beach ( Miami, Florida ), (A ) one minute;
  • 1997 "The Frantic Antic Pedantic Semantic " (A ) sound & color added to original 1965 silent film, 8 min.
  • 1996 "Mr. Fluxus " Memorial to George Maciunas, May 1, 1996, Wiesbaden w. many Fluxians (D) 2hrs.
  • 1995 " Data Room Germany ," (I) edits of 16 state tapes about past & present cultural expression, visitors walk on large ( 16x12m ) map of Germany, 16 tapes play Simultaneously
  • 1994 "The two Woodstock Festivals of 1994 " Saugerties - Bethel NY, (D ), 1 hr selection w. Martin Hamlet
  • 1993 " The United Germany " sampler of the videos for the 1995 installation, (D), about 30 minutes.
  • 1992 " video sculpture ", (D) of the 1989 group video show, Kunstverein Cologne, about 40 installations, 30 min.
  • 1992 " Neil Williams" s Wake " (D) F.Stella, J.Schnabel, Viva, Ultra Violet, Taylor Mead, etc. attended, 70 min.
  • 1989 "The World Trade Center ," (A) animation, 30 seconds
  • 1989 "People walking through the Berlin Wall" (A) trick, August 1989 shown in Congress Hall in Berlin, 5 min. in " Wipe Cycle " (I ) by individual section & F.Gillette, part of " video sculpture " group show, Aug.27 -Sept. 27, 1989 (NTSC );
  • 1987 "The New York City Parking Game", (A), complicated rules & heavy penalties, happy ending, 10 min.
  • 1986 " Either a Honeymoon or a Forced March " (A) manic trip, Paris, Italy, Yugo. , Austria, Germany, 1 hr
  • 1985 " Bigelow's Luncheonette Closes Forever", (D) the Village, loose a favorite meeting & eating spot, 26min.
  • 1984 " TV as a Creative Medium" (D) the first group video show in NY 1969 Howard Wise Gallery, 10min.
  • 1984 " The 11th. Greenwich Village Halloween Parade ", (A / D), archetypal all saints day, 36 min.
  • 1984 " A Weekend at the Beach, w. Jean -Luc Godard " (A / D), W. Wenders, H. Muller, etc. 1978, Calif. , 7min.
  • 1980 "TIME ZONES ", a reality simulation, (I), 24 videos, 30 min. of each timezone, played Simultaneously giving the feeling did one Could See all over the world at the same time;
  • 1978 "Some Scenes in Southern California", (A), landscapes and mellow culture, 13 min, (I) with below; *.
  • 1977 " Several Minutes of Several Days in the Hamptons " NY beach culture, 13 min, (I) with above, b / w; *.
  • 1976 "Echo " (A / D / I ), doc. of visual (video ) echo installation, Syracuse NY, 12 min.
  • 1976 " More or Less Related incidents in Recent History ", (A / D ) mix of 25 yrs. of news, was, culture, 41min *.
  • . 1975 " bit chunks, and Pieces " (A) prototype for videodisc on American culture, b / w, 50min, (I) Video 75 *, (NTSC );
  • 1974 " Manhattan is an Iceland " map ( I), Manhattan experience all in one space, 6 tapes simult. , B / w, 1hr. *
  • 1974 " Gregory Bateson ", (D), lecture on biology & culture, Lehman College, NY, b / w, 60 min.
  • "The Boring Years" in 1973 (A) city & country contrasts, with Beryl Korot, b / w, 5 min. *
  • 1973 " The Fourth of July in Saugerties ", (A / D) typical American celebration, w. B.Korot, b / w, about 5 minutes.
  • 1970 " Media Primer", (D) relationship of media to American culture, b / w, 30 min. *
  • 1969 "Abbie Hofmann " (D), rap on the Chicago 8 trial & America, b / w, 20 min. producer & sound;
  • 1969 " The Woodstock Festival ", (D) backstage, crowds, sociology, b / w, 60 min.
  • 1969 " Wipe Cycle " (I) with Frank Gillette, two 30 min. edited tapes, video 2 time delays, one live camera, mixing the audience into the art work as active Participants (NTSC );
  • 1969 " The Ohio Tapes", (D / A) farmers, students, performance, America, with Frank Gillette, b / w, 9 hrs. ( NTSC). * above = "Information collage " style of combining audio and visual data

Photographic work

( Extracts):

  • 50 years - 2000 years old sculpture with rubber boots from 1959,
  • 60/90 years old - Rock'n Roll Greats,
  • 70 years - sand,
  • 80 years - Rush Hour I - III,
  • 90 years - Baulin, Berlin building site, RGB,
  • 2000 Japan, Venice, The Tiger's Wash, Water, Salvador Picasso,
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