Ira Schneider is a video artist. He was born in New York, NY  in 1939, graduated from Brown University

Brown University

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 as Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in 1960 and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

 in Psychology

Psychology

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 as Magister of Arts in 1964. He has been living and working in Berlin

Berlin

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 since 1993.

Career

He started shooting video

Video

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 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 (with Frank Gillette, 1969), The Woodstock Festival (1969), Manhattan is an Island (1977), Timezones, (1984) shown in Brussels

Brussels

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, as well as in New York, London

London

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, Vienna

Vienna

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, Lyon

Lyon

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 and Mannheim

Mannheim

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. A Weekend on the Beach with Jean-Luc Godard (1984, with Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

, H. Müller, and more.), Gretta (with Russ Johnson

Russ Johnson

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 1988) World Trade Center (1989), Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....

 is eating Sushi in South Beach (1998), TV as a Creative Medium (updated 2001), Brazil, the sleeping Giant (2001), Datenraum Deutschland.

Ira Schneider was co-founder, publisher and one of the editors in chief of the magazine Radical Software (1970–74), as well as president of Raindance Foundation

Raindance Foundation

Raindance Foundation was begun in 1969 by Frank Gillette, Michael Shamberg, Ira Schneider and Paul Ryan among others. Raindance was a self-described "countercultural think-tank" that embraced video as an alternative form of cultural communication....

 (1972 to 1994), director of the TV show Night Light TV (1980–1992), and Associate Professor at the Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

 School of Art, New York (1980 to 92). In 1976 he published Video Art - an Anthology together with Beryl Korot

Beryl Korot

-Biography:Beryl Korot has pioneered the field of video art since the early 1970s. She was co-editor of Radical Software , the first publication to discuss the possibilities of the new video medium, and Video Art with Ira Schneider...

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External links

• Ira Schneider: If something interested me I filmed it A documentary about Ira Schneider by Uli Happe
• Ira Schneider Homepage