Time Zones | 2009

In 1977 I received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in support of a video installation project titled "Time Zones" a reality- simulation. The visitors to this installation could see all over the world, from each of the 24 time zones as if at the same time.


John Hanhardt chose to preview eight channels at the 1980 Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, N.Y. and to show the complete 24 channel "Time Zones" at the Whitney Museum in NYC in 1981. Grace Glueck featured "Time Zones" in the NY Times "critics Choice" in April 1981. After this it showed at five museums in Europe as part of the "Time and Art" Exhibition, which premiered at the Beaux Arts Museum in Brussels.

I am working now on preparations to show the original Time Zones installation along with real time live images from some of the same locations via internet in 2011, the 30th anniversary of "Time Zones". This will require cameras in up to 18 locations projected on screens above corresponding places on the earth.

Tour

01-01-2011 Relaunch of the new version


Concept :
Ira Schneider
Camera :
Ira Schneider
additional Camera :
Juan Downey, Andy Mann, Tony Ramos, Bill Viola
Sound :
Tom Zafian
supported by :
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts