Bob Snyder (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bob Snyder (artist)

American artist

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Profession: composer, artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Bob Snyder (born October 3, 1946) is an American composer, sound and video artist, currently working and living in Chicago.
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.
Several of his works have been made in collaboration with the artists Phil Morton, Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin.
Snyder is also the founder of the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in its present form, where he is Professor Emeritus.
He is the author of the book Music and Memory: a Brief Introduction published by the MIT Press . He is also the author of the "Memory for Music" chapter in the 2009 and 2016 editions of the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology.