Daniel Landau

Daniel Landau (Hebrew: דניאל לנדאו‎‎; born in 1973) is a media artist, lecturer and researcher.

Daniel Landau was born and raised in Jerusalem. Landau completed his Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. 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.

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.

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

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. 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. Landau created a series of works called ‘Reside’, using the docu-performance platform that he had established.

In 2014, Landau established the Oh-Man, Oh-Machine platform through which he initiate international conferences, workshops, salon meetings and a research group intended to promote a techno-social critical discourse through the philosophical framework of Posthumanism. 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.

He is currently serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel. He was invited to present his works at festivals and museums in Israel and overseas, including: The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, The Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, the Centro-Historico Festival (Mexico), Bath International Music Festival (England), Kaserne (Switzerland), The Bartok Festival (Hungary) and The Nakanojo Biennale (Japan).

In 2017, Daniel Landau is going to teach the winter semester at the Design and Media department in UCLA.

Personal

His sister, Sigalit Landau, is an Israeli artist.

Landau is married to Michal Openheim Landau, a musician, composer and vocal teacher. They live in Tel Aviv.

• 1995 – Abstract on Black / interactive presentation of video-dance music / Jerusalem, Amsderdam
• 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
• 2000 – Pulsing Chambers – 60-minute video performance / The Netherlands
• 2001 – Eye Drum / 4-minute video / in collaboration with Sigalit Landau / The Israel Museum
• 2001 – Scratch / 8-minute video / Mexico, The Netherlands
• 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
• 2003 – Planeta Kennel / 10-minute video / Sitges Film Festival, Spain
• 2004 – Channel Shabab / 70-minute show / The Netherlands, Hungary, Germany
• 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
• 2008 – Ana Bat Yam / 20-minute video / Birshut HaRabim, Tel Aviv
• 2009 – One-Dimensional Man / 62-minut show / Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater
• 2010 – Dir El Balach / 15-minute installation / The Israel Museum
• 2010 – From Canyons to Stars / video triptych and orchestra / 110 minutes / Hamburg
• 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, Switzerland
• 2011 – Reside 1.2: King Faisal 57 / 20-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv, Yehuda HaYamit
• 2012 – Ger 1.3: Berko Salmonovich / 17-minute installation / Night Fire, Old Jaffa
• 2012 – Not Very Nice People / 8-minute video / Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris
• 2012 – Reside 1.4: Mount Zion-Darfur / 30-minute installation / Loving Art, Tel Aviv
• 2012 – The Nature of Things / 4-minute video / the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ron Arad installation
• 2013 – Make a Wish / site-specific light installation, Habima Square, Tel Aviv
• 2014 – 30-minute Reside 1.4 / interactive installation, Artport, Tel Aviv
• 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
• 2014 – HeLa / Curator of a group exhibition at Hayarkon 19 – Oh Man Oh Machine project
• 2014 – Open Skies / 5-minute video / Circle One, Berlin
• 2015 – Cave Study / video installation 360, Tel Aviv Museum: Isu Tori Game / video installation, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan
• 2015 – I will be right back / 55-minute video installation for a dance show, in collaboration with Iris Erez
• 2016 – The Perfect Post-Human / Video installation, London Roundhouse
• 2016 – Time Body Experiment / Performative experiment, PrintScreen Festival
• 2016 – Time Motion Study / Video installation 360, in collaboration with Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery, New York