Ira Schneider

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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, Ira Schneider began studying experimental psychology and comparative literature at Brown University in New York, completing it in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts. This was followed by a semester abroad in Munich at the Ludwig Maximilians University until 1961, studying art history and linguistics (English philology). This stay triggers his first intensive examination of German-European art history and European film, which he was able to study extensively in the Munich arthouse cinema "Studio für Filmkunst" in Occamstrasse. During this time he also traveled to several major European cities. In 1961, Schneider returned to the United States to study experimental psychology and the philosophy of science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison; In 1964 he did his master’s degree.

Video and photography

Schneider began photography in 1952; work on 16mm films follows. His video pioneering achievement began in the mid-1960s when he followed the nightlife of the New York underground scene on video: In a popular little boutique with a club downstairs where Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , The Doors , The Who and many others other rock musicians will perform. Between 1962 and 1968 he made eight experimental short films, including Lost in Cuddihy and The Ghost of Wittgenstein . He goes to the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and experiments with the video camera; he does not record the musicians, but observes what is happening around Woodstock in the audience, this is how the Woodstock video is created . In 1969 , together with his partner Frank Gillette , Ira Schneider realized the installation Wipe Cycle , which was shown together with works by Nam June Paik in the first group exhibition for video art in New York. In 1970 he founded the newspaper Radical Software , for which he worked as a publisher and editor until 1974. Also in 1970 he became a member of the Raindance Foundation, a media-ecological group. 1974 is his first solo exhibition with the video installation Manhattan is an Island and a group exhibition with the same installation in the Syracuse - Museum of Fine Arts (since 1968 Everson Museum of Fine Arts) New York City. Then follows the video installation Echo from 1975, projected visual echoes of the exhibition visitors. In 1976, Ira Schneider (co / editor Beryl Korot ) published the first book dealing with the new medium of video as an art form in New York, it was called VIDEO ART An Anthology . His installation Time Zones was shown for the first time in 1981 at the Whitney Museum in New York City and in 1984 in a group exhibition with Duchamp , Man Ray , Paik and Monet in Brussels. She was also seen in London, Vienna, Lyon and Mannheim.

One of his most important videos, A Weekend on the Beach with Jean-Luc Godard from 1984, shows 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 came to Berlin in 1993, where he now lives and developed his video data room Germany in 1995 . To this day he accompanies Berlin's nightlife with his video camera and still camera, in 1999 he filmed the video Schneider marries his SONYA , a union with his TV life, whose 50th anniversary he celebrated in 1998. There are always exhibitions with his photographs, in Berlin he develops his photographic series Baulin , a series of photos of footpaths and renovation work on houses in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg , RGB is also created in this series.

Awards

Hannah Höch Prize for Video Art 2006

Exhibitions

  • 2014: Mr. Ira Schneider cooks - video installation and international cuisine. ZAGREUS project KochKunstGalerie, Berlin
  • 2006: New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
  • 2005: Art Center, Berlin
  • 2004: Too much TV, Joselite Center, Berlin
  • 2003: Linc Art Gallery , San Francisco
  • 2002: Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2001: Studio 63, Berlin
  • 2000: National Gallery, Prague, Art Academy Budapest, HDK Berlin
  • 1998: Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 1998: New Berlin Art Association, Berlin
  • 1997: Institut Galerie & Kaufladen, Berlin
  • 1997: Anthology Film Archive, NYC
  • 1996: Shift eV, Berlin
  • 1994: Academy of Art, Saarbrücken
  • 1993: Art Academy Düsseldorf
  • 1992: Konrad Wolf Film School, Babelsberg
  • 1992: Night Light TV, NYC, cable-tv show
  • 1988: Museum of Image & Sound, Sao Paulo
  • 1981: Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, "Timezones, a reality simulation"
  • 1980: Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, "Timezones"
  • 1979: Environmental Communications & Some Small Business, Venice, Ca.
  • 1979: Boston Film & Video Coop
  • 1978: AVZ GRAZ
  • 1978: Anthology Film Archive, NYC, "Echo"
  • 1977: Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, "Manhattan is an Island"
  • 1976: Synapse, Syracuse University, NYC, "Echo"
  • 1975: The Kitchen, NYC, "Video 75"
  • 1974: The Kitchen, NYC, "Manhattan is an Island"

Group exhibitions

  • 2007: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, “Manhattan is an Island”, with Nam June Paik , Takahiko Iimura , Joan Logue , Wolf Vostell and others
  • 2007: Galerie der Künste, Berlin Strictly Berlin "007 - Targets of Opportunity" (curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl )
  • 2006: Galerie Walden, Berlin, with Emmett Williams , Willoughby Sharp , Pamella Smith , David Medalla , Ann Noel , Reinhart Buettner
  • 2006: Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Strictly Berlin "2000–2006" (curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl )
  • 2005: ZuvielTV, Art Salon Berlin; Art film Biennale premiere, Cologne; Zamek, Poznań
  • 2004: Nikolaj Gallery, Copenhagen, Max's Kansas City Club Show
  • 2003: Kunstpunkt Berlin, with Emmett Williams and Ann Noel
  • 2002: Art Point Berlin
  • 1999/2000: Art Forum, Berlin
  • 1998: Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1997: Art Forum, Messe Berlin, Art Club Berlin
  • 1994: Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC "TV as a Creative Medium", 25th anniversary of the first New York group exhibition on video art at the Howard Wise Gallery in 1969, with Nam June Paik , Frank Gillette , Paul Ryan and others
  • 1994: America Haus, Berlin, Fulbright meetings, "Walks through the German countries"
  • 1991: The Kitchen, NYC Raindance Foundation 20th. anniversary exhibition; with Beryl Korot, Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan and Davidson Gigliotti
  • 1989: Kongresshalle, Berlin, video sculpture, approx. 45 installations, “Wipe Cycle” with Frank Gillette
  • 1989: Kölnischer Kunstverein, Video Sculpture, approx. 45 installations, “Wipe Cycle” with Frank Gillette, Nam June Paik, Kubota, Toni Oursler, Jeffrey Shaw, Campus, Levine, Schwartz, Graham, Muntades and others
  • 1985: traveling show, Time, the fourth dimension in Art, The Barbican Center London , Museum Moderne Kunst Wien , Museum Nouvelle Lyon , Kunsthalle Mannheim ,
  • 1984: Palais de Beaux Art, Brussels, Time, the fourth dimension in Art, “Timezones” (video tapes of 24 different time zone recordings around the globe, recorded at the same time), with Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Nam June Paik, Monet , D. Oppenheim, Auguste Rodin and others
  • 1980: Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY "Timezones," with Nam June Paik, Gillette, and others
  • 1975: Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
  • 1975: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
  • 1974: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • 1970: Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Mass. "Random Interlace Content Electronics" with Videofreex, F. Gillette, Nam June Paik, P. Ryan and others
  • 1969: Howard Wise Gallery, NYC, TV as a Creative Medium, "Wipe Cycle" with F. Gillette and works by Nam June Paik, Paik / Charlotte Moorman, Paul Ryan, Aldo Tambolini and others

Video works

  • 2005: "More or Less Related Incidents in Recent History" (A) 39min., - +
  • 2005: "(A) 28 ″ 30 ″" an information collage
  • 2004: "2 + 2 = 4" (D), 30 sec.
  • 2003: "The Two Woodstock Festivals of 1994" (D), 24 min.
  • 2002: "Bob Rutman, artist, musician, instrument maker" (D), 60 min.
  • 2001: "TV as a Creative Medium" (D) from 1969, 11 min., B / w, "Vision & Television" (D) from 1970, 35 min. B / w. "Brazil, the Sleeping Giant" (A / D) 58 min.
  • 2000: "How Bill Viola Does It" (A), 2 min.
  • 1999: “Schneider marries his SONYa” (A), 3 min .; "Schneider Marries his SONYa", 3 min.
  • 1998: "Nam June Paik is eating Sushi in South Beach" (Miami, Florida), (A), 1 min.
  • 1997: "The Frantic Pedantic Semantic Antic" (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) 2 h.
  • 1995: "Datenraum Deutschland", (I) edits of 16 federal state tapes about past & present cultural expression, visitors walk on large (16x12m) map of Germany, 16 tapes play simultaneously
  • 1994: "The 2 Woodstock Festivals of 1994" Saugerties - Bethel, NY, (D), 1 hour. Selection (with Martin Hamlet)
  • 1993: "United Germany", sampler of the videos from the 1995 installation, (D), approx. 30 min.
  • 1992: "Video Sculpture", (D) of the 1989 group video show, Kunstverein Köln, approx. 40 installations, 30 min.
  • 1992: "Neil Williams's Wake", (D) F. Stella, J. Schnabel, Viva, Ultraviolet, Taylor Mead etc. attended, 70 min.
  • 1991: "John Campbell" great blues guitarist at Nells, 14th St. NYC, (D), 2 hours. (NTSC)
  • 1990: "Music from the NY clubs - J. Campbell at Nells", "Mystic Chain" at the BBQ, 4 hours
  • 1989: "The World Trade Center" (A), animation, 30 seconds
  • 1989: “People walking through the Berlin Wall”, (A) trick, Aug. 1989, shown in Kongresshalle Berlin, 5 min. in "Wipe Cycle", (I) by IS & F.Gillette, part of "Video Sculpture" group show, Aug. 27-Sept. 27, 1989, (NTSC)
  • 1988: "A Day at Copacabana Beach", (A), Rio folk culture at the beach, 12 min. *
  • 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 hour
  • 1985: "Bigelows Luncheonette Closes Forever" (D), the Village loses a favorite meeting & eating spot, 26 min.
  • 1984: "TV as a Creative Medium" (D), the first group videoshow in NY 1969, Howard Wise Gallery, 10 min.
  • 1984: “The 11th. Greenwich Village Halloween Parade "(A / D), archetypal all saints day, 36 min.
  • 1984: "A Weekend at the Beach" (A / D), w. Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Heiner Müller u. a., 1978, Calif., 7 min.
  • 1980: "TIMEZONES", a reality simulation, (I) 24 videos, 30 min. of each time zone, played simultaneously giving the feeling that one could see all over the world at the same time;
  • 1978: "Some Scenes in Southern California", (A), landscapes & 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, war, culture, 41 min *.
  • 1975: "Bit, Chunks, and Pieces", (A) prototype for video disc on American culture, b / w, 50 min., (I), Video 75 * (NTSC)
  • 1974: "Manhattan is an Island", map (I), experience all Manhattan in one space, 6 tapes simult., B / w, 1 h. *
  • 1974: "Gregory Bateson", (D), lecture on biology & culture, Lehman College, NY, b / w, approx. 60 min.
  • 1973: Richard Serra, installing sculpture at the Staedlik Museum, Amsterdam, (D), b / w, approx. 5 min.
  • 1973: "The Boring Years", (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, approx. 5 min.
  • 1970: "Media Primer" (D), relationship of media to American culture, b / w, 30 min. *
  • 1970: "Steve Miller Group, The Who, Mountain, Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East", b / w, each approx. 30 min. (NTSC);
  • 1970: "Buckminster Fuller" (D), rap on the history of civilization & ecology, b / w, 35 min., Director / editor;
  • 1969: "Abbie Hofmann" (D), rap on the Chicago 8 trial & America, b / w, 20 min. producer & sound;
  • 1969: "The Rolling Stones free Concert" at Altamont, Ca. (D), subject of "Give Me Shelter", b / w 3 h.
  • 1969: "The Woodstock Festival", (D) backstage, crowds, sociology, b / w, 60 Nin.
  • 1969: "Wipe Cycle", (I) with Frank Gillette, two 30 min. edited tapes, 2 video time delays, 1 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 h (NTSC). * above = "Information Collage", style of combining audio & visual data

Photographic work

(Excerpts):

  • 50 years - 2000 years old sculpture with rubber boots from 1959
  • 60/90 years - 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

literature

  • Radical software. 1970-1974, ZDB ID 1095862-9 .
  • Ira Schneider, Beryl Korot (Ed.): Video art. An Anthology. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York NY 1976, ISBN 0-15-193632-3 .
  • Katja Albers (Ed.): Ira Schneider - mysteries in reality. Ed. Braus, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-89904-264-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ nbk.org ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbk.org
  5. ↑ http://www.zagreus.net/herr-ira-schneider-kocht/
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museoreinasofia.es
  7. ↑ [4]
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City