NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Ira Schneider Mysteries in Reality Hannah Höch Prize 2006 Opening: 3 November 2006, 7 pm
4 November – 17 December 2006
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein http://www.nbk.org

Ira Schneider “A Weekend at the Beach (with Jean-Luc Godard)”, 1978/84, videostills

Ira Schneider was born in 1939 in Manhattan into a family who, in 1947, were the first on their street to own a television. The 8-year-old’s fate is sealed, and several decades and 250,000 hours of television viewing later he stops counting. Obsessed with media technology and imagery, Ira Schneider becomes a “televisor”, filmmaker, visionary video artist and proponent, co-founder and publisher of the journal Radical Software – the most important voice of the US video community in the 1970s – and co-author of the first standard work on the then new media: Video Art. An Anthology.

For these achievements the video pioneer Ira Schneider, who has been living in Berlin since the 1990s, will be honoured with the Hannah Höch Prize of the Berlin Ministry of Science, Research and Culture and an exhibition in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK – New Berlin Art Association). The exhibition will also contain a concentrated insight into Schneider’s photographic work, and thus enable a comprehensive view of his life’s work.

Accompanying Programme

15 November 2006, 7 pm
in the series “Treffpunkt NBK”:
“In and out of Context”. Excerpts from recent video works by Ira Schneider, winner of the Hannah Höch Prize for 2006.

via e-flux

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