Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad ( born 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA, lives in Buffalo, New York, USA) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician and composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

Life and work

Tony Conrad studied until 1962 Mathematics at Harvard University. He began working as a film artist in the early 1960s.

The most famous film of Conrad 's " The Flicker " ( " Flicker " ) of 1965. Considered as key work of early structural films. The film consists of only completely black and completely white images, which, as the title suggests, flicker when the film is projected. When the film was shown for the first time, several spectators in the audience were physically ill, as the lightning- fast image sequences can produce epileptic attacks in a small percentage of the population. Conrad began his work as a video and performance artist in the 1970s as a professor at Antioch College in Antioch, Ohio, and at the Center for Media Studies at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Conrad's works are exhibited in many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and PS 1 in New York City. His film The Flicker has been included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Tony Conrad has participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with The Flicker and Straight and Narrow in the Department of Film Acting: represent New American Cinema and the Documenta 6 in 1977 and at the Documenta IX in 1992 as an artist.

Conrad was at the beginning of the short term member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, (Also: The Dream Syndicate ), which also includes John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela among which only just intonation and sustained tones used to produce the, what they "dream music" called. Conrad also worked with the krautrock band Faust.

Tony Conrad has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the State University of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. " Four Violins" was included in the list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening ) ".

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archiv (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
  • Catalog for Documenta 6: Volume 1: painting, sculpture / Environment, Performance; Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video; Volume 3: drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00- X
  • Documenta IX in Kassel, June 13 - 20th September 1992 - Catalogue in three volumes; Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 ( German ) / ISBN 3-89322-381-9 (English)
  • Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel (eds.): Buffalo heads. Media study, media practice, media pioneers. 1973-1990, Cambridge / Mass. The MIT Press, 2008, ISBN 0-262-72050-7
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