Schneider Ira
Personaggio
Schneider Ira
Ira Schneider was a pioneer of video in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In his work with video installation and single-channel tapes, he explored the manipulation of time, interactivity and simultaneity as formal and conceptual devices. A participant in the landmark exhibition TV as a Creative Medium at the Howard Wise Gallery in 1969, he created several important early multi-channel video installations, including Manhattan is an Island and, with Frank Gillette, Wipe Cycle. Schneider was a founding member of the Raindance Foundation and a co-publisher of the seminal video journal Radical Software. In 1976, he and Beryl Korot co-edited Video Art: An Anthology, one of the first and most important anthologies of critical writing in the early years of the alternative video movement.
Schneider was born in 1939. He received an A.B. from Brown University and an M.A. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His numerous awards include grants and fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at the University of California, San Diego; The American Center, Paris; and Cooper Union. He lives in Berlin.
Biografia
Schneider Ira nasce nel 1939 a New York (USA); studia Arte alla Brown University, Providence; studia Psicologia all’Università del Wisconsin, Madison; e per un anno intermedio studia storia dell' arte e letteratura a Monaco di Baviera (Germania); pioniere del video a fine anni Sessanta inizio anni Settanta, nel 1969 realizza i suoi primi lavori con video appunto; è co-fondatore, membro e capo-redattore del periodico "Radical Software" (1970-74), presidente della Raindance Foundation (1972–94) e Professore Associato della Cooper Union School of Art, New York (1980–92); 1976 co-editore con Beryl Korot "Video Art - an Anthology". Vive a Berlino dal 1993.
Sito web
Poetica
Nel suo lavoro con le videoinstallazioni e videotape, esplorò la manipolazione del tempo, l’interattività e la simultaneità come apparecchiature formali e concettuali.
Opere
Alcune opere
- Three Early Works by Ira Scheider, 1966-68
- Lost in Cuddihy, 1966
Video della durata di 12 min, colore, sonoro
- The Ghost of Wittgenstein, 1968
Video della durata di 8:56 min, colore, sonoro
- I’d Rather be Half Right Than Wice President, 1968
Video della durata di 4:58 min, colore, sonoro
- Wipe Cycle, 1969
Videoinstallazione in collaborazione con Gillette Frank
- TV As a Creative Medium (with Narration), 1969-2001
- A media Primer (Revised), 1970-2003
- The Fourth of July in Saugerties, 1973
- Manhattan is an Island, 1974
Videoinstallazione
- A Weekend at The Beach, with Jean-Luc Godard, 1979
- The 11th Greenwich Villane Halloween Parade, 1984
- The New York City Parking Game, 1987
- A Day at Copacabana Beach, 1988
- Mr. Fluxus, 1996
- The Neil Williams Memorial (The N.Y.C. Art Scene), 2000
- The Rolling Stones Free Concert, 1969
- Video Skulptur, 2002
- The Two Woodstock Festivals of 1994, 2003
