Daniel Landau (; born 1 March 1973) is an Israeli artist, researcher,Daniel Landau's page. Aalto University. and entrepreneurJonny Coleman, Is This Kubrick-Centric VR Project the Gateway Drug Virtual Reality Has Been Waiting For?. LA Weekly, 4 April 2017. specializing in media, virtual reality, and AI. He is the founder and CEO of AVRIS, a learning technology company.Experiential, Immersive, Innovative Learning via Virtual Reality at INSEAD. Insead.Meir Orbach, טדי שגיא השקיע 6.5 מיליון דולר ב-Actiview. Calcalist. 11 March 2018.Eytan Halon, INSEAD and Israeli start-up to launch world's first VR classroom. The Jerusalem Post. 22 January 2020.tools using virtual reality. He has presented his work at museums, festivals, and conferences worldwide.
Biography Landau grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1996, he relocated to the Netherlands to pursue his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, where he specialized in Electronic music sonology.Profile of Daniel Landau in contemporaryperformance During his studies, he developed interactive systems that process sound and image in real time and created new digital tools for virtual artistic works.
Art career Since 1996, Landau has worked as a media artist, exploring the use and development of technology in performance and interactive installations.An interview with Landau in the journal "Visual activism", no, 3, May 2016, Betzalel His works often feature encounters between technology and the human body, video installations, and projection-based performances.Yonatan Esterkin, "Four walls jungle", an interview with Daniel Landau, Nrg Maariv, 26 September 2009"TIME-BODY STUDY / VR Performative Experiment" with Daniel Landau. Stanford Humanities Center.
While studying at the royal conservatory, Landau composed music for Dutch contemporary ensembles, including Nieuw Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, and Slagwerkgroep Den Haag. His compositions have been performed at various European music festivals, including the Gaudeamus International Music Festival in the Netherlands and the Spring Festival at the Paris Opera House, in France.
In 2001, Landau and Isak Goldschneider founded the BZAZ Foundation, an art collective dedicated to media performances. Their works have been exhibited in Germany, Hungary, England, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, and Israel.Tal Perry, 'The revolutionary show "One dimensional man" will present in Israel starting next week, in Globes, 31 August 2009
In 2008, Landau created the performance "One Dimensional Man",Rafi Barbiro, "Who is hiding behind the mask?", in ynet, 29 October 2009 a British-Israeli production inspired by Herbert Marcuse's book of the same name. Using technology developed for the show, the actor-dancers appeared as living projections onstage, with video images mapped onto their faces. The show premiered at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv.Zvi Goren, "Review: One dimensional man – fascination, hilarious, spectacular", Habama site, 14 September 2009
Following "One Dimensional Man", Landau was invited by the Digital Art Center in Holon to create a new work for the "Weizmann Demonstration" event, an evening of art performances held in Weizmann Square in 2010. His work "Reside 1.1: They're Not Nice" was based on documentary video footage and inspired by a meeting with activist Reuven Abergel, one of the founders of the Israeli Black Panther movement.Little Tel Aviv: an interview with Eyal Danon, director of the Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon, 2 September 2010, Walla! This piece was the first in the "Reside" series (2010–2012), which explored the relationship between immigrant communities and the societies they joined, combining performance, video, and documentary materials.Ori J. Lenkinski, 'Reside 1.1: Jesse Cohen', The Jerusalem Post, 17 February 2012"Daniel Landau – version 1.1. Jesse Cohen, Habama site
Academic career Landau is a lecturer and a media researcher. Between 2013 and 2015, he served as head of the Media Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts – Midrasha, Beit Berl College. Since 2015, he has been a senior research fellow at the Advanced Reality Laboratory of Reichman University in Herzliya. In 2016, he began his doctoral studies at the Media Lab of Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. In 2017, he taught in the Department of Media and Design at UCLA, US.Daniel Landau in UCLA Design Media ArtsMatan Shiram, "practical art" coferene: discussion about the interaction between arts and marketing nowadays", Globes, 19 June 2014
Landau has participated as a guest lecturer at numerous international conferences, festivals, and universities, including Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology,Art + Tech Panel: Machines and Vision, Caltech and the University of San Diego, in the US;Lectures and Events , the Jewish Studies Program, San Diego State University Shenzhen Fair, China;Experts share views at fair, Shenzhen Daily, 12 May 2017 RIXC Festival, Latvia;Bruce Sterling,Virtualities and Realities, RIXC Festival in Riga, Wired Magazine, 14 September 2017Virtualities and Realities, RIXC Art Science Festival, RICX Art and Science Festival, Riga, 19–21 October 2017 B3 Festival Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany;B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, 28 November to 1 December 2019 Haifa International Film Festival, Israel;VR Conference, Haifa Film Festival, 22 September – 1 October 2018 and the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czechia.The Infiltrators, National Library of Technology, 1 July 2016
Technological entrepreneurship In addition, Landau has been involved in technological entrepreneurship. In 2014, he co-founded "oh-man, oh-machine" with Carmel Weissman, a digital platform for hosting international conferences, workshops, and research groups.
In 2021, he founded AVRIS and currently serves as its CEO. The company develops digital learning platforms incorporating virtual reality and AI technologies.
Personal life Landau is married to Michal Oppenheim Landau, a musician and vocal instructor. The couple has three children, and they live in Tel Aviv. His older sister, Sigalit Landau, is also an artist.Yuval Avivi, An interview with Daniel Landau, Time Out Tel Aviv, 2 September 2013
Selected exhibitions and presentations 2001 – Scratch / 8-minute video / Mexico, the Netherlands 2003 – Grid City / 45-minute show / Premiere at the Bath International Music Festival / England 2003 – Planeta Kennel / 10-minute video / Sitges Film Festival, SpainDaniel Landau biography , in no-org.net 2004 – Channel Shabab / 70-minute show / The Netherlands, Hungary, Germany 2007 – Ana Shahid | Ensemble, Objects & Computer | Opéra Bastille, ParisDaniel Landau in festival-automne.com 2009 – One-Dimensional Man / 62-minute show / Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and TheaterDanit Aminoff, "A show you must see!", 1 November 2009, Ha'ir 2010 – From Canyons to Stars / video triptych and orchestra / 110 minutes / HamburgAnthony Tommasini, A Formidable Piece by Messiaen, Inspired by Two Breathtaking Places, The New York Times, 24 January 2012Hamburg Symphony Presents Premiere Multimedia Concert of Des canyons aux étoiles at Roulette. – 23 January 2012, in Columbia Artists Management Inc. site– des canyons aux etoiles in hamburgersymphoniker.de site From the canyons to the stars 2010 – Not Very Nice People / 22-minute installation / The Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon 2011 – Reside 1.1: Jessie Cohen / 65-minute show / premiere at Kaserne Basel, SwitzerlandCulturescapes Israel: OPLA Companya & Daniel Landau, November 2011, in kaserne-basel.ch 2011 – Reside 1.2: King Faisal 57 / 20-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv, Yehuda HaYamit"Loving arts exhibitions", 9 September 2011, Haaretz 2012 – The Nature of Things / 4-minute video / the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ron Arad installationThe Nature of Things, Israel Museum, in Art Portal site 2012 – Not Very Nice People / 8-minute video / Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris8-minute video, in Paris Museum photography 2012 – Reside 1.4: Mount Zion–Darfur / 30-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel AvivLoving art, 2012, Ha'ir 2013 – Make a Wish / site-specific light installation, Habima Square, Tel AvivVisual art project in Old Jaffa, in Old Jaffa conservation organization site 2014 – Open Skies / 5-minute video / Circle One, BerlinDaniel Landau – "Open Skies, August–September 2014, circle 1 gallery 2014 – Eye Drum / 6-minute video / The Israel Museum, JerusalemOut of body, fragmentation of art, in Israel Museum site 2014 – HeLa / Curator of a group exhibition at Hayarkon 19 – Oh Man Oh Machine projectThe exhibition in Hayarkon 19, Hamidrasha gallery, Beit Berl 2015 – Cave Study / video installation 360, Tel Aviv Museum:Tel Aviv Museum T-Art, in Habama siteThe Guide, August–September 2015, in Erev Rav site Isu Tori Game / video installation, Nakanojo Biennale, JapanNakanojo biennale, 24 August 2015, in biennialfoundation siteThe exhibition in Japan 2015 – I Will Be Right Back / 55-minute video installation for a dance show, in collaboration with Iris ErezAyelet Dekel, Contemporary Dance and Peanut Butter Sandwiches, 25 November 2014, in Midnighteast.com 2016 – The Perfect Post-Human / Video installation, London RoundhouseRon Arad's curtain call 6 – 29 August 2016 2016 – Time Body Experiment / Performative experiment, PrintScreen Festival 2016 – Time Motion Study / Video installation 360, in collaboration with Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery, New YorkCapture Practice: Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery 2017 – Self-Study_01 | VR performance | B3 Film Festival, Frankfurtshort biography. Bienalle des bewegten Bildes 2020 2018 – Visitors | media installation | Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2019 – Self-Study_02 | Open Lab performance | CCA, Tel Aviv(18 July 2019) Self-Study – Open Lab, Lecture performance with exhibiting artist Daniel Landau in collaboration with Maya Magnat . CCA. 2020 – Wind Over Water: Reflective Light Installation. Artefact, Tel Aviv Municipality 2021 – I Am Sitting in a Room / performance / Acco Festival
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