# Daniel Landau

Daniel Landau (Hebrew: דניאל לנדאו; born 1 March 1973) is an Israeli artist, researcher, and entrepreneur specializing in media, virtual reality, and AI. He is the founder and CEO of AVRIS, a learning technology company. 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. 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. His works often feature encounters between technology and the human body, video installations, and projection-based performances.
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.
In 2008, Landau created the performance "One Dimensional Man", 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.
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. 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.

### 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.
Landau has participated as a guest lecturer at numerous international conferences, festivals, and universities, including Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of San Diego, in the US; Shenzhen Fair, China; RIXC Festival, Latvia; B3 Festival Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany; Haifa International Film Festival, Israel; and the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czechia.

### 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.

## 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, Spain
* 2004 – Channel Shabab / 70-minute show / The Netherlands, Hungary, Germany
* 2007 – Ana Shahid | Ensemble, Objects & Computer | Opéra Bastille, Paris
* 2009 – One-Dimensional Man / 62-minute show / Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater
* 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 – The Nature of Things / 4-minute video / the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ron Arad installation
* 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
* 2013 – Make a Wish / site-specific light installation, Habima Square, Tel Aviv
* 2014 – Open Skies / 5-minute video / Circle One, Berlin
* 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
* 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
* 2017 – Self-Study_01 | VR performance | B3 Film Festival, Frankfurt
* 2018 – Visitors | media installation | Israel Museum, Jerusalem
* 2019 – Self-Study_02 | Open Lab performance | CCA, Tel Aviv
* 2020 – Wind Over Water: Reflective Light Installation. Artefact, Tel Aviv Municipality
* 2021 – I Am Sitting in a Room / performance / Acco Festival

## Sources

* 1 2 Goodyear, Sheena (25 September 2018). "Exhibit invites Israelis to visit a Palestinian home — through virtual reality". CBC. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
* 1 2 Daniel Landau's page. Aalto University.
* ↑ Jonny Coleman, Is This Kubrick-Centric VR Project the Gateway Drug Virtual Reality Has Been Waiting For?. LA Weekly, 4 April 2017.
* ↑ Experiential, Immersive, Innovative Learning via Virtual Reality at INSEAD. Insead.
* 1 2 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.
* 1 2 3 4 Profile of Daniel LandauArchived 15 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine in contemporaryperformance
* 1 2 3 4 Tal Perry, 'The revolutionary show "One dimensional man" will present in Israel starting next week, in Globes, 31 August 2009
* ↑ An interview with Landau in the journal "Visual activism", no, 3, May 2016, Betzalel
* 1 2 3 Yonatan Esterkin, "Four walls jungle", an interview with Daniel Landau, Nrg Maariv, 26 September 2009
* 1 2 3 "TIME-BODY STUDY / VR Performative Experiment" with Daniel Landau. Stanford Humanities Center.
* 1 2 Rafi Barbiro, "Who is hiding behind the mask?", in ynet, 29 October 2009
* 1 2 Zvi Goren, "Review: One dimensional man – fascination, hilarious, spectacular", Habama site, 14 September 2009
* 1 2 Little Tel Aviv: an interview with Eyal Danon, director of the Israeli Digital Art Center, Holon, 2 September 2010, Walla!
* 1 2 3 Ori J. Lenkinski, 'Reside 1.1: Jesse Cohen', The Jerusalem Post, 17 February 2012
* 1 2 "Daniel Landau – version 1.1. Jesse Cohen, Habama site
* ↑ Daniel Landau Archived 30 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine in UCLA Design Media Arts
* 1 2 3 Matan Shiram, "practical art" coferene: discussion about the interaction between arts and marketing nowadays", Globes, 19 June 2014
* ↑ Art + Tech Panel: Machines and VisionArchived 11 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Caltech
* ↑ Lectures and Events Archived 5 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the Jewish Studies Program, San Diego State University
* ↑ Experts share views at fair, Shenzhen Daily, 12 May 2017
* ↑ Bruce Sterling,Virtualities and Realities, RIXC Festival in Riga, Wired Magazine, 14 September 2017
* ↑ Virtualities and Realities, RIXC Art Science Festival, RICX Art and Science Festival, Riga, 19–21 October 2017
* ↑ B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, 28 November to 1 December 2019
* ↑ VR ConferenceArchived 11 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Haifa Film Festival, 22 September – 1 October 2018
* ↑ The Infiltrators, National Library of Technology, 1 July 2016
* 1 2 Gilerman, Dana. "Artist-scientist Daniel Landau: "In high-tech, I am seen as a traitor"". Calcalist.
* ↑ Barnea, Reut. ""The digital revolution was completed when the iPhone was released"". Calcalist.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
* ↑ Ithai Stern, Alon Epstein, and Daniel Landau. "Making VR a Reality in Business Classrooms". Harvard Business Publishing.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* 1 2 Yuval Avivi, An interview with Daniel Landau, Time Out Tel Aviv, 2 September 2013
* 1 2 3 Daniel Landau biography Archived 11 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine, in no-org.net
* ↑ Daniel Landau in festival-automne.com
* ↑ Danit Aminoff, "A show you must see!", 1 November 2009, Ha'ir
* ↑ Anthony Tommasini, A Formidable Piece by Messiaen, Inspired by Two Breathtaking Places, The New York Times, 24 January 2012
* ↑ Hamburg 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
* ↑ Culturescapes Israel: OPLA Companya & Daniel Landau, November 2011, in kaserne-basel.ch
* ↑ "Loving arts exhibitions", 9 September 2011, Haaretz
* ↑ The Nature of Things, Israel Museum, in Art Portal site
* ↑ 8-minute video, in Paris Museum photography
* ↑ Loving art, 2012, Ha'ir
* ↑ Visual art project in Old Jaffa, in Old Jaffa conservation organization site
* ↑ Daniel Landau – "Open Skies, August–September 2014, circle 1 gallery
* ↑ Out of body, fragmentation of art, in Israel Museum site
* ↑ The exhibition in Hayarkon 19, Hamidrasha gallery, Beit Berl
* ↑ Tel Aviv Museum T-Art, in Habama site
* ↑ The Guide, August–September 2015, in Erev Rav site
* ↑ Nakanojo biennale, 24 August 2015, in biennialfoundation site
* ↑ The exhibition in Japan
* ↑ Ayelet Dekel, Contemporary Dance and Peanut Butter Sandwiches, 25 November 2014, in Midnighteast.com
* ↑ Ron Arad's curtain call 6 – 29 August 2016
* ↑ "site Time-Body Study in Print Screen Festival". Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
* ↑ Capture Practice: Arkadi Zaides, The James Gallery
* ↑ short biography. Bienalle des bewegten Bildes 2020
* ↑ (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.
* ↑ Landau, Daniel (1 May 2020). "Wind Over Water Reflective Light Installation". research.fi. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
* ↑ Birenberg, Yoav. "Sentenced to death, chaos parties and prophets of rage: the Acre festival returns". Ynet.