Ira Schneider

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Projects: Video XIII

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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Ira Schneider was an American artist and pioneering video practitioner whose work emerged in the 1960s during the medium's earliest institutional moments. He collaborated with Frank Gillette on landmark video installations that treated the medium as a sculptural and temporal material rather than a narrative tool. Schneider's practice engaged with closed-circuit video, real-time transmission, and the architectural conditions of gallery spaces, establishing foundational vocabularies for video art as a distinct form.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Group Exhibition Projects: Video XIII

New York · 1977