This publication is the first collection of Tony Conrad’s writings. Edited by Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961-2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own works: The Flicker, Loose Connection, Four Violins, Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, Early Minimalism, Yellow Movies, Slapping Pythagoras, and Music and the Mind of the World; as well as on the work of his peers: Tony Oursler, Jack Smith, Rhys Chatham, and Henry Flynt, among others. He devotes critical essays to horology, neurolinguistics, and the historical development of Western music, television advertising and camouflage. He also writes on media activism, network communications, censorship, and the political and cultural implications of corporate and global media. The book is published by Primary Information.

This comprehensive catalogue is published on the occasion of Tony Conrad’s retrospective at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2018), MIT List Visual Arts Center and Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University (2018/2019) and ICA, University of Pennsylvania (2019).

This catalogue is published on the occasion of two exhibitions, one at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne and the other at Greene Naftali in New York, that presented a group of works by artist, filmmaker and musician Tony Conrad entitled “Yellow Movies”. Alongside an introductory note by Tony Conrad that served as a press release for the two gallery exhibitions, the book contains a new text by Diedrich Diederichsen and a comprehensive documentation of all the “Yellow Movies” still in existence. The catalogue is produced in collaboration with Galerie Daniel Buchholz and Greene Naftali.