Ant Farm (group)
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Ant Farm was a group of architects who produced experimental works on the "fringe of architecture" during the period 1968-1978. They documented their work with video, and were influential early video artists. The group's works include:
- Media Burn (1975). In which a glorified cadillac was driven through a wall of burning televisions. This piece plays with the notion of a pseudo-event.
- Cadillac Ranch, in which several cadillac automobiles were half-buried off of Interstate 40 near Amarillo, Texas.
- House of the Century (with Texas and New Mexico architect Richard Jost)
- Inflatocookbook
- The Eternal Frame (1975),a collaboration with T.R. Uthco in which actors reenacted the John F. Kennedy Assassination in Dealey Plaza and documented it on video.
- Citizen's Time Capsule (1975) at Artpark, Lewiston, N.Y.
- The exhibition, Ant Farm 1968-1978, was mounted by the Berkeley Art Museum in 2004 and toured to six other museums.
[edit] Members
- Chip Lord b. 1944
- Doug Michels 1943-2003
- Hudson B. Marquez b. 1947
- [Curtis Schreier] b. 1944
[edit] External links
- www.antfarm.org
- Yale Architecture Gallery "Ant Farm: 1968 - 1978" exhibition description [1]
- http://www.libertysoftware.be/cml/cadillacranch/crmain.htm
- [2]
