Daniel Landau



Daniel Landau (דניאל לנדאו; born 1 March 1973) is an Israeli entrepreneur, artist, and researcher. He has presented his work on virtual reality at museums, festivals, and conferences worldwide.

Landau is involved in the Israeli startup scene, developing behavioral assessment and learning tools using virtual reality.

Biography
Daniel Landau was born on 1 March 1973 in Jerusalem. He completed his master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. During his studies, he wrote music for Dutch contemporary music ensembles, such as Nieuw Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, and Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, and performed at concert halls and festivals, including the Concertgebouw and Paradiso Festival. In 2016, Landau began pursuing a Ph.D. at the Aalto University Media Lab in Helsinki, Finland.

In 2001, he established the art collective BZAZ Foundation, which created full-length media shows that toured around different cities in Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, England, and Israel.

Landau lived in the Netherlands for ten years and returned to Israel in 2006. He then began work on a performance platform based on projection and movement.

In 2008, he collaborated with artists, dancers, engineers, and designers to create the British-Israeli stage production show One-Dimensional Man. The show was a direct continuation of Landau's interest in the relationship between the human body and technology. It took place at the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater and received positive reviews. In addition, Landau created a series of works called 'Reside', using a docu-performance platform that he had established.

Later in 2014, Landau established the 'Oh-Man, Oh-Machine' platform, through which he initiates international conferences, workshops, salon meetings, and a research group intended to promote a techno-social critical discourse using the philosophical framework of Posthumanism. In 2013–2015, he served as head of digital media studies at The Midrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel.

Landau serves as a senior research fellow at the Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel. He has been invited to present his works at festivals and museums in Israel and overseas, including at 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, he taught a winter semester at the Design and Media department at UCLA.

Landau has delivered lectures at universities, conferences, and festivals around the world, including at Stanford University, California, the California Institute of Technology, San Diego State University, the Shenzhen Fair in China, RIXC Festival in Latvia, the Israel Society of Biological Psychiatry, the B3 Biennale in Frankfurt, the Haifa Film Festival in Israel, and the Czech National Library of Technology

Personal life
Landau's sister, Sigalit Landau, is also an artist. Landau is married to Michal Openheim Landau, a musician, composer, and vocal teacher. They live in Tel Aviv.

Selected exhibitions and presentations

 * 1995 – Abstract on Black / interactive presentation of video-dance music / Jerusalem, Amsterdam
 * 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
 * 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 – Pulsing Chambers – 60-minute video performance / The Netherlands
 * 2009 – One-Dimensional Man / 62-minute 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 – 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 – Open Skies / 5-minute video / Circle One, Berlin
 * 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
 * 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