Daniel Landau (Hebrew: דניאל לנדאו; born 1 March 1973) is an Israeli entrepreneur,[1] artist,[2] and researcher.[3] He has presented his work on virtual reality at museums, festivals, and conferences worldwide.[4]

Daniel Landau
Daniel Landau looking at camera
Landau in 2016
Born (1973-03-01) 1 March 1973 (age 51)
Jerusalem, Israel
Known forMedia artist, video artist
MovementIsraeli art
Websitedaniel-landau.com
Cave study – Tel Aviv Museum, 2015

Landau is involved in the Israeli startup scene,[5] developing behavioral assessment and learning tools using virtual reality.[6][7]

Biography

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Daniel Landau was born on 1 March 1973 in Jerusalem.[8] He completed his master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.[8][9][10] During his studies, he wrote music for Dutch contemporary music ensembles, such as Nieuw Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, and Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, and performed at concert halls and festivals, including the Concertgebouw and Paradiso Festival.[8] In 2016, Landau began pursuing a Ph.D. at the Aalto University Media Lab in Helsinki, Finland.[3]

In 2001, he established the art collective BZAZ Foundation, which created full-length media shows that toured different cities in Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, England, and Israel.[11]

Landau lived in the Netherlands for ten years and returned to Israel in 2006.[11][12] He then began work on a performance platform based on projection and movement.[13]

In 2008, he collaborated with artists, dancers, engineers, and designers to create the British-Israeli stage production show One-Dimensional Man.[13] The show was a direct continuation of Landau's interest in the relationship between the human body and technology. It took place at the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater and received positive reviews.[11][10][14][15] In addition, Landau created a series of works called 'Reside', using a docu-performance platform that he had established.[14][16]

Later in 2014, Landau established the 'Oh-Man, Oh-Machine' platform, through which he initiates international conferences, workshops, salon meetings, and a research group intended to promote a techno-social critical discourse using the philosophical framework of Posthumanism.[17][18] In 2013–2015, he served as head of digital media studies at The Midrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel.[9][18]

Landau serves as a senior research fellow at the Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.[17][19] He has been invited to present his works at festivals and museums in Israel and overseas, including at the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra,[20][21][22] the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris,[23] the Centro-Historico Festival (Mexico), Bath International Music Festival (England), Kaserne (Switzerland), the Bartok Festival (Hungary),[8] and the Nakanojo Biennale (Japan).[24][25]

In 2017, he taught a winter semester at the Design and Media department at UCLA.[26]

Landau has delivered lectures at universities, conferences, and festivals around the world, including at Stanford University, California,[4] the California Institute of Technology,[27] San Diego State University,[28] the Shenzhen Fair in China,[29] RIXC Festival in Latvia,[30][31] the Israel Society of Biological Psychiatry,[32] the B3 Biennale in Frankfurt,[33] the Haifa Film Festival in Israel,[34] and the Czech National Library of Technology[35]

Personal life

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Landau's sister, Sigalit Landau, is also an artist.[10][18] [36] Landau is married to Michal Oppenheim Landau, a musician, composer, and vocal teacher. They live in Tel Aviv.[8]

Selected exhibitions and presentations

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  • 1995 – Abstract on Black / interactive presentation of video-dance music / Jerusalem, Amsterdam
  • 1996 – Stair Music / 8-minute music / Phenomena Festival / Jerusalem
  • 1997 – A Car and a Bench / 60-minute dance music / choreography by Yasmeen Godder
  • 1998 – Losing It Again / 7-minute Music for piano and electronics / Amsterdam, Paris and New York
  • 1999 – Ana Shahid – I Witness / 45-minute show / The Netherlands
  • 2001 – Eye Drum / 4-minute video / in collaboration with Sigalit Landau / The Israel Museum
  • 2001 – Scratch / 8-minute video / Mexico, The Netherlands [37]
  • 2002 – The Worlds of Milosh / 70-minute show / Mexico, The Netherlands, Germany
  • 2003 – Ana Shahid / work for ensemble, canon and objects, 11 minutes / The Netherlands
  • 2003 – Grid City / 45-minute show / Premiere at the Bath International Music Festival / England [37]
  • 2003 – Planeta Kennel / 10-minute video / Sitges Film Festival, Spain [37]
  • 2004 – Channel Shabab / 70-minute show / The Netherlands, Hungary, Germany [8]
  • 2004 – lDeadly Affairs / 50-minute show / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / The Netherlands
  • 2004 – Peace in Our Time / 5-minute video / broadcast on Nachtpodium VPRO / The Netherlands
  • 2005 – Anna Frank, Bat-Yam / 22-minute video / Reshut HaRabim / Jaffa
  • 2005 – Eye Drum / 4-minute video / Omanut HaAretz / Reading, Tel Aviv
  • 2005 – For your eyes only / 10-minute video / Reshut HaRabim / Jaffa
  • 2006 – Mexico-Berlin / video 6'21" / Seduction / Bayit BaNamal, Tel Aviv
  • 2007 – Ana Shahid | Ensemble, Objects & Computer | Opéra Bastille, Paris [38]
  • 2008 – Ana Bat Yam / 20-minute video / Birshut HaRabim, Tel Aviv
  • 2009 – Pulsing Chambers – 60-minute video performance / The Netherlands
  • 2009 – One-Dimensional Man / 62-minute show / Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater[11][13][14][15][39]
  • 2010 – Dir El Balach / 15-minute installation / The Israel Museum
  • 2010 – From Canyons to Stars / video triptych and orchestra / 110 minutes / Hamburg [20][40][41]
  • 2010 – Not Very Nice People / 22-minute installation / The Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon [42]
  • 2011 – Reside 1.1: Jessie Cohen / 65-minute show / premiere at Kaserne Basel, Switzerland [14][43]
  • 2011 – Reside 1.2: King Faisal 57 / 20-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv, Yehuda HaYamit [44]
  • 2012 – Not Very Nice People / 8-minute video / Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris [45]
  • 2012 – Reside 1.4: Mount Zion-Darfur / 30-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv [46]
  • 2012 – The Nature of Things / 4-minute video / the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ron Arad installation [47]
  • 2013 – Make a Wish / site-specific light installation, Habima Square, Tel Aviv [36][48]
  • 2014 – Open Skies / 5-minute video / Circle One, Berlin [49]
  • 2014 – 30-minute Reside 1.4 / interactive installation, Artport, Tel Aviv [50]
  • 2014 – Ceci n'est pas une narguile / 7-minute video mapping / Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre
  • 2014 – Eye Drum / 6-minute video / The Israel Museum, Jerusalem [51]
  • 2014 – HeLa / Curator of a group exhibition at Hayarkon 19 – Oh Man Oh Machine project [52]
  • 2015 – Cave Study / video installation 360, Tel Aviv Museum:[53][54] Isu Tori Game / video installation, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan [55][56]
  • 2015 – I will be right back / 55-minute video installation for a dance show, in collaboration with Iris Erez [57]
  • 2016 – The Perfect Post-Human / Video installation, London Roundhouse[58]
  • 2016 – Time Body Experiment / Performative experiment, PrintScreen Festival [59]
  • 2016 – Time Motion Study / Video installation 360, in collaboration with Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery, New York [60]
  • 2017 – Self-Study_01 | VR performance | B3 Film Festival, Frankfurt [61]
  • 2018 – Visitors | media installation | Israel Museum, Jerusalem [2]
  • 2019 – Self-Study_02 | Open Lab performance | CCA, Tel Aviv [62]
  • 2020 – WIND OVER WATER: Reflective Light Installation. Artefact, Tel Aviv Municipality[63]

Sources

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  1. ^ Jonny Coleman, Is This Kubrick-Centric VR Project the Gateway Drug Virtual Reality Has Been Waiting For?. LA Weekly, 4 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b Goodyear, Sheena (25 September 2018). "Exhibit invites Israelis to visit a Palestinian home — through virtual reality". CBC. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b Daniel Landau's page[permanent dead link]. Aalto University.
  4. ^ a b "TIME-BODY STUDY / VR Performative Experiment" with Daniel Landau. Stanford Humanities Center.
  5. ^ Eytan Halon, INSEAD and Israeli start-up to launch world's first VR classroom. The Jerusalem Post. 22 January 2020.tools using virtual reality.
  6. ^ Experiential, Immersive, Innovative Learning via Virtual Reality at INSEAD. Insead.
  7. ^ Meir Orbach, טדי שגיא השקיע 6.5 מיליון דולר ב-Actiview. Calcalist. 11 March 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Profile of Daniel LandauArchived 15 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine in contemporaryperformance
  9. ^ a b An interview with Landau in the journal "Visual activism", no, 3, May 2016, Betzalel
  10. ^ a b c Yonatan Esterkin, "Four walls jungle", an interview with Daniel Landau, Nrg Maariv, 26 September 2009
  11. ^ a b c d Tal Perry, 'The revolutionary show "One dimensional man" will present in Israel starting next week, in Globes, 31 August 2009
  12. ^ Daniel Landau in State of the Net site
  13. ^ a b c Rafi Barbiro, "Who is hiding behind the mask?", in ynet, 29 October 2009
  14. ^ a b c d Ori J. Lenkinski, 'Reside 1.1: Jesse Cohen', The Jerusalem Post, 17 February 2012
  15. ^ a b Zvi Goren, "Review: One dimensional man – fascination, hilarious, spectacular", Habama site, 14 September 2009
  16. ^ "Daniel Landau – version 1.1. Jesse Cohen, Habama site
  17. ^ a b Daniel Landau Archived 30 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine in UCLA Design Media Arts
  18. ^ a b c Matan Shiram, "practical art" coferene: discussion about the interaction between arts and marketing nowadays", Globes, 19 June 2014
  19. ^ Sammy Ofer School of Communications - IDC Herzliya, AVL lab faculty
  20. ^ a b Anthony Tommasini, A Formidable Piece by Messiaen, Inspired by Two Breathtaking Places, The New York Times, 24 January 2012
  21. ^ Hamburg Symphony Presents Premiere Multimedia Concert of DES CANYONS AUX ÉTOILES at Roulette - 23 January 2012, in Columbia Artists Management Inc. site
  22. ^ des canyons aux etoiles in hamburgersymphoniker.de site From the canyons to the stars
  23. ^ Daniel Landau in the Maison européenne de la photographie
  24. ^ Nakanojo biennale, 24 August 2015, in biennialfoundation.org site
  25. ^ About the exhibition in Japan
  26. ^ course description in UCLA site
  27. ^ Art + Tech Panel: Machines and VisionArchived 11 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Caltech
  28. ^ Lectures and Events Archived 5 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the Jewish Studies Program, San Diego State University
  29. ^ Experts share views at fair, Shenzhen Daily, 12 May 2017
  30. ^ Virtualities and Realities, RIXC Art Science Festival, RICX Art and Science Festival, Riga, 19–21 October 2017
  31. ^ Bruce Sterling,Virtualities and Realities, RIXC Festival in Riga, Wired Magazine, 14 September 2017
  32. ^ The 22 Annual Meeting of the Israel Society of Biological Psychiatry, 6–8 March 2018
  33. ^ B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, 28 November to 1 December 2019
  34. ^ VR ConferenceArchived 11 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Haifa Film Festival, 22 September – 1 October 2018
  35. ^ The Infiltrators, National Library of Technology, 1 July 2016
  36. ^ a b Yuval Avivi, An interview with Daniel Landau, Time Out Tel Aviv, 2 September 2013
  37. ^ a b c Daniel Landau biography Archived 11 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine, in no-org.net
  38. ^ Daniel Landau in festival-automne.com
  39. ^ Danit Aminoff, "A show you must see!", 1 November 2009, Ha'ir
  40. ^ Hamburg Symphony Presents Premiere Multimedia Concert of DES CANYONS AUX ÉTOILES at Roulette. - 23 January 2012, in Columbia Artists Management Inc. site
  41. ^ - des canyons aux etoiles in hamburgersymphoniker.de site From the canyons to the stars
  42. ^ Little Tel Aviv: an interview with Eyal Danon, director of the Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon, 2 September 2010, Walla!
  43. ^ Culturescapes Israel: OPLA Companya & Daniel Landau, November 2011, in kaserne-basel.ch
  44. ^ "Loving arts exhibitions", 9 September 2011, Haaretz
  45. ^ 8-minute video, in Paris Museum photography
  46. ^ Loving art, 2012, Ha'ir
  47. ^ The Nature of Things, Israel Museum, in Art Portal site
  48. ^ Visual art project in Old Jaffa, in Old Jaffa conservation organization site
  49. ^ Daniel Landau – "Open Skies, August–September 2014, circle 1 gallery
  50. ^ The Infiltrators, Artoirt Tlv site
  51. ^ Out of body, fragmentation of art, in Israel Museum site
  52. ^ The exhibition in Hayarkon 19[permanent dead link], Hamidrasha gallery, Beit Berl
  53. ^ Tel Aviv Museum T-Art, in Habama site
  54. ^ The Guide, August–September 2015, in Erev Rav site
  55. ^ Nakanojo biennale, 24 August 2015, in biennialfoundation site
  56. ^ The exhibition in Japan
  57. ^ Ayelet Dekel, Contemporary Dance and Peanut Butter Sandwiches, 25 November 2014, in Midnighteast.com
  58. ^ Ron Arad's curtain call 6 - 29 August 2016
  59. ^ "site Time-Body Study in Print Screen Festival". Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  60. ^ Capture Practice: Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery
  61. ^ short biography. Bienalle des bewegten Bildes 2020
  62. ^ (18 July 2019) Self-Study – Open Lab, Lecture performance with exhibiting artist Daniel Landau in collaboration with Maya Magnat Archived 31 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine. CCA.
  63. ^ Landau, Daniel (1 May 2020). "WIND OVER WATER Reflective Light Installation". research.fi. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
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