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Ira Schneider is a Video Artist . He was born in New York, NY in 1939, 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.


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He started shooting video in 1969 with the advent of portable video recording equipment. The great number of his works include , H. Müller, and more.), ''Greta'' (1988) ''World Trade Center'' (1989), '' Nam June Paik 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 (1972 to 1994), director of the TV show ''Night Light TV'' (1980-1992), and Associate Professor at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York (1980 to 92). In 1976 he published ''Video Art - an Anthology'' together with Beryl Korot.http://207.56.97.90/Videobooks.html


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