Bob Snyder (artist)

Bob Snyder (born October 3, 1946) is an American composer, sound and video artist, who lives and works in Chicago.[1] His work focuses on the formal relations between electronic sounds and images, using synthesized visual and audio signals as his main medium. Throughout his career he has worked extensively with Sandin Image Processor, and his work has been featured in two Whitney Biennal exhibitions as well as institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the New York Public library and the Art Institute of Chicago.[2][3] Several of his works have been made in collaboration with the artists Phil Morton, Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin.[4][5] Snyder is also the founder of the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in its present form,[6] where he was Professor Emeritus from 2016(?) until his retirement in 2022 after forty-six years at SAIC. He is the author of the book Music and Memory published by the MIT Press .[7][8] He is also the author of the "Memory for Music" chapter in the 2009 and 2016 editions of the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. In 2020, Snyder contributed a chapter entitled “Repetitions and Silences: A Music and Memory Supplement” to the anthology Composition, Cognition, and Pedagogy, published by the Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts. (ABCM).

  1. ^ "Bob Snyder". Video Data Bank. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  2. ^ DORIN, LISA. "‘HERE TO STAY’: COLLECTING FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2009, pp. 6–110. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40651623.
  3. ^ "MFCP: 'Palais de Mari,' Music & Memory". Experimental Sound Studio. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  4. ^ Kirkpatrick, Diane (1978). Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945-1978. the University of Michigan Museum of Art. p. 38.
  5. ^ Jimenez, Mona; et al. (2014). The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, Vol. 2. Intellect Books. p. 601.
  6. ^ Jimenez, Mona; et al. (2014). The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, Vol. 2. Intellect Books. p. 370.
  7. ^ Pepperell, Robert. "Leonardo." Leonardo, vol. 35, no. 3, 2002, pp. 335–336. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1577131.
  8. ^ Miller, S. M. "Bob Snyder: Music and Memory: An Introduction (review)." Computer Music Journal, vol. 26 no. 2, 2002, pp. 98-100. Project MUSE,