Daniel Landau

Daniel Landau (Hebrew: דניאל לנדאו‎; born March 1, 1973) - is an entrepreneur, [1] artist [2] and researcher. [3] His work in the field of virtual reality has been presented in museums, festivals and conferences [4] worldwide. Landau is involved in the Israeli startup scene [5] developing behavioral assessment and learning [6] tools using virtual reality.[7]

Daniel Landau
Born1973 (age 46–47)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
Known forMedia artist, video artist
MovementIsraeli art

Biography

Daniel Landau was born and raised in Jerusalem.[8] Landau completed his Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.[8][9][10] During his studies, Landau wrote music for Dutch contemporary music ensembles, such as: Nieuw Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, performing with his works at concert halls and festivals such as - The Concertgebouw, Paradiso.[8]

In 2001, Landau established the art collective – BZAZ Foundation – in which they created full-length media shows. These shows toured in Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, England and Israel, receiving positive critic by the media and the audiences.[11]

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

In 2008, in collaboration with artists, dancers, engineers and designers, Landau created the stage piece One-Dimensional Man. This show was a British-Israeli production.[13] The show was a direct continuation of Landau’s interest in the complex relationship between the human body and technology. The show took place at the Suzanne Dellal Center, receiving positive reviews.[11][10][14][15] Landau created a series of works called ‘Reside’, using the docu-performance platform that he had established.[14][16]

In 2014, Landau established the Oh-Man, Oh-Machine platform through which he initiate international conferences, workshops, salon meetings and a research group [17] intended to promote a techno-social critical discourse through the philosophical framework of Posthumanism.[18] Landau gives lectures on his work in Israel and internationally. In 2013-2015, he served as Head of the Digital Media Studies at The Midrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel.[9][18]

He is currently serving as a senior research fellow at the Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.[17][19] He was invited to present his works at festivals and museums in Israel and overseas, including: 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, Daniel Landau taught the winter semester at the Design and Media department in UCLA.[26]

Since 2016 Landau is pursuing his PhD at the Aalto University Media Lab, Helsinki. [3]

Daniel Landau lectures worldwide in major universities and various conferences and festivals, among others: Stanford University, California [4] , California Institute of Technology [27] , San Diego State University [28] , Shenzhen Fair, China [29] , RIXC Festival, Latvia [30] [31] , Israel Society of Biological Psychiatry [32] , B3 Biennale, Frankfurt [33] , Haifa Film Festival, Israel [34] and the Czech National Library of Technology [35] .

Daniel Landau is also involved in Israeli start-ups as a consultant and creative director. [1]

Personal

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

Selected exhibitions and presentations
  • 2019 – Self-Study_02 | Open Lab performance | CCA, Tel Aviv [37]
  • 2018 – Visitors | media installation | Israel Museum, Jerusalem [2]
  • 2017 – Self-Study_01 | VR performance | B3 Film Festival, Frankfurt [38]
  • 2016 – The Perfect Post-Human / Video installation, London Roundhouse [39]
  • 2016 – Time Body Experiment / Performative experiment, PrintScreen Festival [40]
  • 2016 – Time Motion Study / Video installation 360, in collaboration with Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery, New York [41]
  • 2015 – Cave Study / video installation 360, Tel Aviv Museum:[42][43] Isu Tori Game / video installation, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan [44][45]
  • 2015 – I will be right back / 55-minute video installation for a dance show, in collaboration with Iris Erez [46]
  • 2014 – Open Skies / 5-minute video / Circle One, Berlin [47]
  • 2014 – 30-minute Reside 1.4 / interactive installation, Artport, Tel Aviv [48]
  • 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 [49]
  • 2014 – HeLa / Curator of a group exhibition at Hayarkon 19 – Oh Man Oh Machine project [50]
  • 2013 – Make a Wish / site-specific light installation, Habima Square, Tel Aviv [36][51]
  • 2012 – Not Very Nice People / 8-minute video / Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris [52]
  • 2012 – Reside 1.4: Mount Zion-Darfur / 30-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv [53]
  • 2012 – The Nature of Things / 4-minute video / the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ron Arad installation [54]
  • 2011 – Reside 1.1: Jessie Cohen / 65-minute show / premiere at Kaserne Basel, Switzerland [14][55]
  • 2011 – Reside 1.2: King Faisal 57 / 20-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv, Yehuda HaYamit [56]
  • 2010 – Dir El Balach / 15-minute installation / The Israel Museum
  • 2010 – From Canyons to Stars / video triptych and orchestra / 110 minutes / Hamburg [20][57][58]
  • 2010 – Not Very Nice People / 22-minute installation / The Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon [59]
  • 2000 – Pulsing Chambers – 60-minute video performance / The Netherlands
  • 2009 – One-Dimensional Man / 62-minut show / Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater [11][13][14][15][60]
  • 2008 – Ana Bat Yam / 20-minute video / Birshut HaRabim, Tel Aviv
  • 2007 – Ana Shahid | Ensemble, Objects & Computer | Opéra Bastille, Paris [61]
  • 2006 – Mexico-Berlin / video 6’21” / Seduction / Bayit BaNamal, Tel Aviv
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 [62]
  • 2003 – Planeta Kennel / 10-minute video / Sitges Film Festival, Spain [62]
  • 2002 – The Worlds of Milosh / 70-minute show / Mexico, The Netherlands, Germany
  • 2001 – Scratch / 8-minute video / Mexico, The Netherlands [62]
  • 2001 – Eye Drum / 4-minute video / in collaboration with Sigalit Landau / The Israel Museum
  • 1999 – Ana Shahid – I Witness / 45-minute show / The Netherlands
  • 1998 – Losing It Again / 7-minute Music for piano and electronics / Amsterdam, Paris and New York
  • 1997 – A Car and a Bench / 60-minute dance music / choreography by Yasmeen Godder
  • 1996 – Stair Music / 8-minute music / Phenomena Festival / Jerusalem
  • 1995 – Abstract on Black / interactive presentation of video-dance music / Jerusalem, Amsderdam

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