1. Anthony Schmalz Conrad was an American video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer.
20 Facts About Tony Conrad
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Tony Conrad became recognized as a filmmaker for his 1966 film The Flicker.
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Tony Conrad performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists over the course of his career.
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Tony Conrad was born in Concord, New Hampshire, to Mary Elizabeth Parfitt and Arthur Emil Tony Conrad, and raised in Baldwin, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
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Tony Conrad's father worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the United States Navy.
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Tony Conrad's first musical release under his own name was a collaboration with Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate, released by Caroline in 1973.
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Grant and Tony Conrad further worked on two films: Straight and Narrow and Four Square.
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Tony Conrad began to work in video and performance in the 1970s as a professor at Antioch College, where he replaced the filmmaker Paul Sharits.
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In 1976, Tony Conrad joined the faculty at the Center for Media Studies at the University at Buffalo.
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Tony Conrad cooked sukiyaki in front of an audience: egg, meat, vegetables, and 16mm film; and literally "projected" onto the screen behind him.
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Tony Conrad issued two archival CDs featuring the work of late New York filmmaker Jack Smith, with whom he was associated in the 1960s.
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Tony Conrad collaborated with artists such as Charlemagne Palestine, Genesis P-Orridge, Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, David Grubbs, C Spencer Yeh, Tovah Olson, MV Carbon, and numerous others.
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Tony Conrad was chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they curated in May 2011.
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In 2012 Tony Conrad was part of the line-up of the touring avant-garde festival Sonic Protest that took place in five cities in France.
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In 2013 Tony Conrad visited Genoa to open his first solo exhibition in Italy.
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Tony Conrad's work has been shown at many museums including the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Louvre in Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; and many others.
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Tony Conrad's artwork is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery in New York City, and by Galerie Buchholz in Germany.
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Tony Conrad had been a faculty member in the State University of New York at Buffalo since 1976, and continued to teach there in the Department of Media Study until his death.
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Tony Conrad died at a hospice in Cheektowaga, New York, on April 9,2016, after receiving treatment for prostate cancer.
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The Tony Conrad estate is represented by Greene Naftali, New York, and Galerie Bucholz, Cologne.