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Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a galvanic figure across multiple strains of the avant-garde. His protean career spanned five decades and resisted authority in all its forms; as Conrad remarked, “the job of an artist is to discover laws to violate that haven’t been made yet.” Best known as a trailblazer in the fields of both drone music and structural film, he also worked in video, performance, painting, installation, public access television, and “paracinema”: experiential works that defied the logic of what the moving image might be.
Conrad’s first film—still his most notorious and influential—was The Flicker (1966), a stripped-down sequence of black and white frames that alternate with a throbbing intensity. Though austere in its conception, the work was entrancing in its effects, causing phantom colors to emerge as if from behind closed eyes. In the catalogue for Conrad’s 2018 retrospective at the Albright-Knox, curator Cathleen Chaffee called The Flicker “a stroboscopic attack on both…
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Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a galvanic figure across multiple strains of the avant-garde. His protean career spanned five decades and resisted authority in all its forms; as Conrad remarked, “the job of an artist is to discover laws to violate that haven’t been made yet.” Best known as a trailblazer in the fields of both drone music and structural film, he also worked in video, performance, painting, installation, public access television, and “paracinema”: experiential works that defied the logic of what the moving image might be.
Conrad’s first film—still his most notorious and influential—was The Flicker (1966), a stripped-down sequence of black and white frames that alternate with a throbbing intensity. Though austere in its conception, the work was entrancing in its effects, causing phantom colors to emerge as if from behind closed eyes. In the catalogue for Conrad’s 2018 retrospective at the Albright-Knox, curator Cathleen Chaffee called The Flicker “a stroboscopic attack on both…
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