IRA SCHNEIDER „NAM JUNE PAIK IS EATING SUSHI IN SOUTH BEACH“ (1998), VIDEO STILL © IRA SCHNEIDER, 2018
IRA SCHNEIDER „NAM JUNE PAIK IS EATING SUSHI IN SOUTH BEACH“ (1998), VIDEO STILL
© IRA SCHNEIDER, 2018i

VIDEO BOX 6.4

Mr. Ira Schneider - Video art, experimental and comedy since 1969

Ira Schneider (*1939) will guide us through his immense, fifty-year-long video production. Right from the beginning, his recordings originated from the interplay of documentary, personal statement, and an individual camera setting. When video art came into being, Schneider played an active role in this new art movement. He exhibited in the first exhibitions, such as “TV as a Creative Medium” (in 1969 at the Howard Wise Gallery, New York), was involved in the publishing of the leading periodical Radical Software and edited the book “VIDEO ART An Anthology” in 1976 (co-editor Beryl Korot).

In 1993, Ira Schneider moved to Berlin where he still lives today. With his artistic experiments in media art he developed a unique position that continuously examines – often with a nice sense of humour – the human conditions of technology-based life. His works shift between documentary and poetic attitude and question the seeming opposites of realism and abstraction. 

Programm

TV as a Creative Medium (1969/2001), 12 Min.
Nam Jun Paik is eating Sushi in South Beach (1998), 1 Min.
Schneider heiratet seine SONYa (1998), 3 Min.
H2O #3.5 (2008), 2 Min.
The Radical Software/Raindance ZKM Exhibition (2017/18), 9 Min.

Freier Eintritt

Künstler Ira Schneider wird zu Gast sein

Kuratiert von Dr. Renate Buschmann

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