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|collections = [[SFMOMA::{{SFMOMA|Ant_Farm}}|SFMOMA]] 9, [[EAI::{{EAI|394}}|EAI]] 7, [[MoMA::{{MoMA|32176}}|MoMA]] 7, [[VDB::{{VDB|ant-farm}}|VDB]] 3, [[Pompidou::{{Pompidou|cT9nGy/rMbBqe6}}|Pompidou]] 2, [http://www.li-ma.nl/site/catalogue/agent/8443 LIMA] 2, [[Stedelijk::{{Stedelijk|2307-ant-farm}}|Stedelijk]] 2, [[SAAM::{{SAAM|28952}}|SAAM]] 1, [[Tate::{{Tate|15135}}|Tate]] 1, [[ZKM::{{ZKM|ant-farm}}|ZKM]] 1, [[ReinaSofia::{{ReinaSofia|ant-farm}}|Reina Sofia]] 1, [[Artic::{{Artic|Ant+Farm}}|Artic]] 1, [[Macba::{{Macba|t-r-uthco-ant-farm}}|Macba]] 1
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|collections = [[SFMOMA::{{SFMOMA|Ant_Farm}}|SFMOMA]] 9, [[EAI::{{EAI|394}}|EAI]] 7, [[MoMA::{{MoMA|32176}}|MoMA]] 7, [[VDB::{{VDB|ant-farm}}|VDB]] 3, [[Pompidou::{{Pompidou|cT9nGy/rMbBqe6}}|Pompidou]] 2, [http://www.li-ma.nl/site/catalogue/agent/8443 LIMA] 2, [[Stedelijk::{{Stedelijk|2307-ant-farm}}|Stedelijk]] 2, [https://americanart.si.edu/institution/ant-farm-28952 SAAM] 1, [[Tate::{{Tate|ant-farm-15135}}|Tate]] 1, [[ZKM::{{ZKM|ant-farm}}|ZKM]] 1, [[ReinaSofia::{{ReinaSofia|ant-farm}}|Reina Sofia]] 1, [[Artic::{{Artic|48631}}|Artic]] 1, [[Macba::{{Macba|tr-uthcoant-farm}}|Macba]] 1
|web = [http://www.ubu.com/film/ant_farm.html UbuWeb], [[Wikipedia::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Farm_(group)|Wikipedia]]
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|web = [[UbuWeb::http://www.ubu.com/film/ant_farm.html|UbuWeb]], [[Wikipedia::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Farm_(group)|Wikipedia]]
 
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'''Ant Farm''' was an avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice, founded in [[San Francisco]] in [[1968]] by [[Chip Lord]] and [[Doug Michels]].
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'''Ant Farm''' formed in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels in 1968 in [[San Francisco]]. The collective later expanded to include Curtis Schreier, Douglass Hurr, and Hudson Marquez. Ant Farm worked with a variety of media, including installations, media events, and videotape, always producing and promoting non-commercial art with a distinct political conscience.  
  
[[Category:Video]] [[Category:Video activism]]
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Ant Farm is perhaps best known for the performance art piece ‘Media Burn’: part-spectacle, part-statement, this piece aimed to criticize passive interaction with television and news. It featured a car crashing through a pyramid of televisions. Though the group disbanded in 1978, they are still influential today to a new generation of artists and architects. [https://mediaburn.org/collections/ant-farm/ (Source)]
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* [https://mediaburn.org/collections/ant-farm/ Ant Farm in Media Burn Archive]
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* [http://www.ubu.com/film/ant_farm.html Ant Farm on UbuWeb]
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* ''Ant Farm 1968-1978'', eds. Constance Lewallen and Steve Seid, University of California Press, 2004, 194 pp. [https://zkm.de/en/publication/ant-farm-1968-1978]
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* Steve Seid, ''Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image'', intro. Chip Lord, Inventory Press, and RITE Editions, 2020, 128 pp. [https://www.inventorypress.com/product/media-burn-ant-farm-and-the-making-of-an-image Publisher].
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[[Series:Video art]] [[Series:Video activism]]

Latest revision as of 21:55, 1 November 2024

Web UbuWeb, Wikipedia
Collections SFMOMA 9, EAI 7, MoMA 7, VDB 3, Pompidou 2, LIMA 2, Stedelijk 2, SAAM 1, Tate 1, ZKM 1, Reina Sofia 1, Artic 1, Macba 1

Ant Farm formed in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels in 1968 in San Francisco. The collective later expanded to include Curtis Schreier, Douglass Hurr, and Hudson Marquez. Ant Farm worked with a variety of media, including installations, media events, and videotape, always producing and promoting non-commercial art with a distinct political conscience.

Ant Farm is perhaps best known for the performance art piece ‘Media Burn’: part-spectacle, part-statement, this piece aimed to criticize passive interaction with television and news. It featured a car crashing through a pyramid of televisions. Though the group disbanded in 1978, they are still influential today to a new generation of artists and architects. (Source)

Work
Publications
  • Ant Farm 1968-1978, eds. Constance Lewallen and Steve Seid, University of California Press, 2004, 194 pp. [1]
  • Steve Seid, Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image, intro. Chip Lord, Inventory Press, and RITE Editions, 2020, 128 pp. Publisher.