Anthony Schmalz Conrad was an American video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer
Tony Conrad at the DeStijl/Freedom From Festival in Minneapolis-Saint Paul in October 2003.
The Velvet Underground is a paperback book by journalist Michael Leigh, published in September 1963, that reports on paraphilia in the US.
Tony Conrad
…never a member of the group; after moving into Conrad's old apartment on Ludlow Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Reed and Cale found a copy of The Velvet Underground which Conrad had left in the apartment, and took its name for the band. In 1966, Conrad produced the film The Flicker, consisting almost entirely of…