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. was an American

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. He has been living and working in

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since 1993 until his return to the US in 2021. __TOC__

Early life and career

Schneider was born in

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and raised in

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and

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. In 1964, he graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

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and, in 1964, from the

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as Magister of Arts. His short film, ''Lost in Cuddihy'' (1966), received the certificate of merit. In 1993, he moved to

. In 2021, he returned to the US and lived in New York. Schneider started shooting

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in 1969 with the advent of portable

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equipment. The great number of his works include

video installations Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has ...

from 1969 through today. Notable works include: ''Wipe Cycle'' (with

Frank Gillette Frank Gillette (born in 1941) is an American video and installation artist. Interested in the empirical observation of natural phenomena, his early work integrated the viewer's image with prerecorded information. He has been described as a "pion ...

, 1969), ''The Woodstock Festival'' (1969), ''Manhattan is an Island'' (1977), ''Timezones'', (1984) shown in

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, as well as in New York,

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and

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

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, H. Müller, and more.), ''Gretta'' (with Russ Johnson 1988), ''World Trade Center'' (1989), ''

Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (; July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super hi ...

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

Raindance Foundation Raindance Foundation (RainDance Corporation) was founded in October 1969 by Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan, Michael Shamberg, Louis Jaffe, and Marco Vassi. Raindance was a self-described "alternate culture think-tank" that embraced video as an altern ...

(1972 to 1994), director of the TV show ''Night Light TV'' (1980–1992), and associate professor at the

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School of Art, New York (1980 to 92). In 1976, he worked on ''Video Art - an Anthology'' together with

Beryl Korot Beryl Korot (born September 17, 1945) is an American video artist. Biography Beryl Korot has pioneered the field of video art since the early 1970s. She was co-editor of ''Radical Software'' (1970), the first publication to discuss the possibiliti ...

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