Peter Conheim is a multimedia artist who performs and records under the name The Jet Black Hair People http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eggVl9epf8s. He is also the co-founder of Wet Gate http://www.wetgate.net, which uses only "found footage

Found footage

Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a method of compiling films partly or entirely of footage which has not been created by the filmmaker, and changing its meaning by placing it in a new context. It should not be mistaken for documentary or compilation films. It is also not to be...

" and 16mm film projectors to create a live cinema collage performance, sampling the sound from the film tracks in real time, as well as Mono Pause http://www.monopause.net, a long-running “Situationist rock” performing group (and its Southeast Asian music

Southeast Asian music

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 spin-off, Neung Phak http://www.neungphak.net http://www.suncitygirls.com/abduction/neung_phak.php).

Additionally, he is a long-time member of the long-running "culture jamming

Culture jamming

Culture jamming, coined in 1984, denotes a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. Guerrilla semiotics and night discourse are sometimes used synonymously with the term culture jamming.Culture...

" performance and recording group, Negativland

Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

 http://www.negativland.com, based in the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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. The group's adventures with copyright

Copyright

Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...

 are legendary, most notably a fight with U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

's music publishers in 1992. Since 1999, he has been bass-playing sideman for singer Malcolm Mooney

Malcolm Mooney

Malcolm Mooney is an American singer, poet, and artist, probably best known as the original vocalist for German krautrock band Can.-Biography:Mooney began singing in high school, and was a member of an a cappella vocal group known as the Six Fifths...

 http://www.malcolmmooney.com from the Germany-based music legends, Can

Can (band)

Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...

, in Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet.

Conheim's additional credits include engineering, mastering or participating in other recordings, among which are:

• Crack: We Are Rock
• Ron Anderson and Ruins
• Fred Frith/Chris Cutler/Thomas Dimuzio
• Nihilist Spasm Band
• Sublime Frequencies releases
• Sun City Girls
• Porest
• MX-80
• O-Type
• The Molecules
• Moe!kestra

As a film and video curator

Curator

A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

, he co-owned a single-screen cinema from 2004–2009 and continues to present shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, as well as engaging in or assisting various film preservation

Film preservation

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 endeavors. He co-created the clip-based documentary, VALUE-ADDED CINEMA (2003) http://www.brandhype.org/MovieMapper/Resources/ValueAddedCinema.jsp http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0306/03-valueadded.php, and directed a short video observing Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...

at work, BRAND IMPRESSIONS (2005) http://filmswelike.com/dvdswelike/filmswelike/butb/.