But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Conrad made a piece called Pickled Film:

Conrad began to work in video and performance in the 1970s as a professor at Antioch College in Ohio and the Center for Media Studies at the University at Buffalo. In 1991 he had a video retrospective at The Kitchen an artist-run-organization in New York City. Conrad’s concept came from a continued attempt at pushing the framework of film and his interest in engaging the audience in long spaces of time.

Conrad is a graduate of Harvard University (A. Conrad in 1940 in Concord New Hampshire) is an American avant-garde video artist experimental filmmaker musician/composer sound artist teacher and writer. B.