Ira Schneider

(New York, 1939)

Video artist and pioneer in the video installation format, he creates video documentaries, art and installation works, as well as information collages. degree in psychology from Brown University and Wisconsin. In 1969 he founded Raindance with Frank Gillette and Michael Shamberg, a 'countercultural thought group' that adopted video as an alternative form of cultural communication. The collective produced a database of tapes and writings that explored the relationship between cybernetics, media, and ecology. From 1970 to 1974 they published the magazine 'Radical Software', one of the first publications on media art. He has received several fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1977), a Fulbright Fellowship (1993), and the Hannah Höch Prize (2006). The work selected in MediaLab was Nam June Paik is eating sushi in South Beach (Miami, Florida). Ira Schneider presents Nam June Paik, father of video art, eating his own video sculptures as if they were sushi. The recording was made in 1998.