In the 2010s, Tony Conrad often invited me to speak in his class at the Department of Media Studies at the University at Buffalo. Usually Tony and I would Skype in to his class from his apartment in…
The canon of musical minimalism tends to be set in stone, carved like Mount Rushmore: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, La Monte Young. It's solid, immovable, but the lineup has long lacked for…
Tony Conrad, the indefatigably experimental artist whose career included landmark achievements in structural film, drone music, and contemporary art, died today of pneumonia, according to the Buffalo…
"From Minimalism into Algorithm," an ambitious program at the Kitchen unfolding over the 2015-16 season, considers the roles of seriality, speculation and networked communication in art from the 19…