Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

Support for Conrad's work has come 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.

Personal life

Tony Conrad's father was Arthur Conrad, who worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy.

Conrad is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1962, major Mathematics). In 1960 Tony Conrad went to Copenhagen to see his friend who was a research mathematician and was working on a computer project at Physics Chemist Institute there. That computer was the only computer at the time in Denmark with a memory of 8 Kilobyte. Tony worked on it in machine language during the summer, which helped build his computer skills. He also did work as a computer programmer for a year when he came back to the United States.