Ira Schneider
Ira Schneider is an American video artist. He graduated from Brown University as Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Psychology as Magister of Arts in 1964. He has been living and working in Berlin since 1993.Career
He started shooting video in 1969 with the advent of portable video recording equipment. The great number of his works include video installations from 1969 through today. His notable works include: Wipe Cycle, The Woodstock Festival, Manhattan is an Island, Timezones, shown in Brussels, as well as in New York, London, Vienna, Lyon and Mannheim. A Weekend on the Beach with Jean-Luc Godard, Gretta, World Trade Center, Nam June Paik is eating Sushi in South Beach, TV as a Creative Medium, Brazil, the sleeping Giant, Datenraum Deutschland.
Ira Schneider was president of Raindance Foundation, director of the TV show Night Light TV, and Associate Professor at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. In 1976 he worked on Video Art - an Anthology together with Beryl Korot.
