Schneider was born in Manhattan, NY and raised in Brooklyn and Long Island.
The great number of his works include video installations from 1969 through today.
Notable works include: Wipe Cycle (with Frank Gillette, 1969), The Woodstock Festival (1969), Manhattan is an Island (1977), Timezones, (1984) shown in Brussels, as well as in New York, London, Vienna, Lyon and Mannheim.
), Gretta (with Russ Johnson 1988), World Trade Center (1989), Nam June Paik is eating Sushi in South Beach (1998), TV as a Creative Medium (updated 2001), Brazil, the sleeping Giant (2001), Datenraum Deutschland.
[3] Ira Schneider was president of Raindance Foundation (1972 to 1994), director of the TV show Night Light TV (1980–1992), and associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York (1980 to 92).