Andrew Schneider
Andrew Schneider is a performer and interactive-electronics artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His performance and design work critically investigates our everyday emotional, physical, and psychological dependence on technology. Schneider was a Wooster Group company member and now creates and performs his own solo performance works, and builds interactive electronic art works and installations.
Prior to his visiting artist residency at The Performing Garage, his original performance work in NYC included: Tidal (2013), as part of a Laurie Anderson curated track for this year’s River2River festival; WOW+FLUTTER (2010) at The Chocolate Factory; RETROGRADE (2011) at Abrons Art Center; five AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA! works (2005-2013) at PS122; PLEASURE (2009) at Issue Project Room; and resident artist (2006) at LEMURplex. His work in Chicago includes TRUE+FALSE (2007) and STRATEGIES AGAINST ARCHITECTURE (2008) among others, both at The University of Chicago as a resident artist.
With The Wooster Group, Andrew created and ran video for Vieux Carré, I Am Jerome Bel, Troilus & Cressida (in which he also performed), and North Atlantic. He mixed video live and toured with Hamlet, La Didone, Poor Theater, and The Emperor Jones. And he created projections for, and performed in, Early Plays, a Wooster Group collaboration with Richard Maxwell.
Andrew creates wearable, interactive electronic art works such as the Solar Bikini, (a bikini that charges your iPod), and wireless programmable sound effect gloves. His interactive work has been featured in such publications as Art Forum and Wired, among others and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. Andrew created the visuals for and performed with the band Fischerspooner’s ENTERTAINMENT 2009 world tour and was a member of the disco-pop band AVAN LAVA. Schneider served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU and taught courses on Technology and Performance both at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Bowdoin College, and Carleton College. Andrew holds a BFA in Theater Arts from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU.