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Ira Schneider

Lost in Cuddihy

Film expérimental | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 12:0 | USA | 2010

An experimental, non-narrative film and an information collage of experiences in America of the middle 1960. Juxtaposed are the worlds of politics, anti-Vietnam war protests, the Rock`n Roll scene, and transcendental meditational influences from Asia. The film was purchased by the New York Museum of Modern Art Archive in 1967.

Schneider, born in New York, 1939. Lives in Berlin. Between 1962 and 1968 produced 8 short experimental films including "Lost in Cuddihy" and "The Ghost of Wittgenstein". The installation "Wipe Cycle" produced with Frank Gillette presented in the first video art group show, also including Nam June Paik, N.Y. 1969. Schneider was co-originator & editor of the video journal, "Radical Software". Schneider`s "Manhattan is an Island" a video installation was exhibited in the Kitchen, Everson Museum in 1974, and at the Whitney Museum, N.Y. in 1977. In 2006 it was purchased by the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid & exhibited until April 2007. He co-edited "Video Art, an Anthology", N.Y. 1976, with Beryl Korot. The video installation "Time Zones" (in which one could see all around the earth at the same time) was shown in the Whitney Museum 1981 and over the next years in the Palais de Beaux Arte, Brussels, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Nouvelle Museum, Lyon and the Barbican Center, London. He has had exhibitions at the Museum of Image & Sound, Sao Paulo, ZKM, Karlsruhe and has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. He is the Hannah Hoech Prize winner for 2006. In 2007 & 2008 he has had solo exhibitions at the Wewerka, Lecoq Galerie and Kunstpunkt, Berlin and at the Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC. In 2009 he had solo screenings at the Anthology Film Archives, NYC and Image Movement, Berlin a one man show Groznjan, Istria, Croatia. 2008 he has participated in group shows at the Les Rencontres Internationales, Pompidou Centre, Paris Caixe, Spain Viva Festival, Spain U.FO, Hamburg, Germany ?Inseln ? Archipelle ? Atolle Symposium?, Mannheim Kunstsalon, Berlin photo edition berlin, Berlin L.A. Center for Digital Art, California. 2009 he has participated in group shows Celeste Prize adjacent to the Venice Biennale Les Rencontres Internationales (also included 2010), Madrid and Hamburg Documentary Film Weeks Festival. 2010 Emily Harvey Foundation, video presentation MUMOK, Vienna featured in the "Changing Channels" video history exhibition "Schuster/Schneider 2" group show, Berlin 2010