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Eventually, I'd like one monitor at the North Pole, one at the South, and two at the equator, big monitors switching images back and forth.

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The most important thing was the notion of information presentation and the notion of the integration of the audience into the information. One sees oneself exiting form the elevator. If one stands there for 8 seconds, one sees oneself entering the gallery from the elevator again. Now at the same time one is apt to be seeing oneself standing there watching Wipe Cycle. You can watch yourself live watching yourself 8 seconds ago, watching yourself 16 seconds ago, eventually feeling free enough to interact with this matrix realizing one's own potential as an actor.

Ira Schneider

Ira Schneider

Ira Schneider

Born: March 2, 1939

Died: August 17, 2022 (aged 83)

Bio: Ira Schneider was an American video artist who graduated from Brown University as Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and from the University of Wisconsin Madison in Psychology as Magister of Arts in 1964. He lived and worked in Berlin from 1993 until his return to the US in 2021.

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