Daniel Landau

Daniel Landau (; 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. 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 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.

Landau has participated as a guest lecturer at numerous international conferences, festivals, and universities, including Stanford University, 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.

Selected exhibitions and presentations 2001 – Scratch / 8-minute video / Mexico, the Netherlands 2004 – Channel Shabab / 70-minute show / The Netherlands, Hungary, Germany 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 1.2: 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 2017 – Self-Study_01 | VR performance | B3 Film Festival, Frankfurt 2018 – Visitors | media installation | Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2020 – Wind Over Water: Reflective Light Installation. Artefact, Tel Aviv Municipality 2021 – I Am Sitting in a Room / performance / Acco Festival