From Arforum :

Bruce Conner, a San Francisco–based artist known for his assemblages,
films, drawings, and interdisciplinary works, passed away Monday
afternoon. Conner moved to San Francisco in 1957 and quickly found his
place within the city’s vibrant Beat community. His gauzy assemblages
of scraps salvaged from abandoned buildings, nylon stockings, doll
parts, and other found materials gained him art-world attention, as did
A Movie (1958), an avant-garde film that juxtaposed footage from
B movies, newsreels, soft-core pornography, and other fragments, all
set to a musical score. (In 1991, A Movie was selected for
preservation by the United States National Film Registry at the Library
of Congress.) Conner was active in the Bay Area’s 1960s counterculture
scene, designing light shows for Family Dog performances at the Avalon
Ballroom, and in the ’70s focused on drawing and photography. Art-world
recognition resumed in the ’80s and continued to the present: Conner
was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, was the subject of a touring
survey in 1999–2000, and is featured in the current Carnegie
International. At Conner’s request, there will be no funeral.