Ant Farm –Media Burn (USA 1975) Ant Farm war ein 1968 in San Francisco gegründete Gruppe von visionären Architekten, die zugleich Video-, Performance- und Installationskünstler waren. Ant Farm löste sich 1978 auf, als ein Feuer ihr Studio am Pier 40 in San Francisco zerstörte. On July 4, 1975, in the parking lot of San Francisco’s Cow Palace, Curtis Schreier and Doug Michels, outfitted like astronauts, crawled into the Phantom Dream Car – a customized 1959 Cadillac Biarritz – and drove it full speed through a pyramid of televisions. MEDIA BURN, a spectacular performance video, is one of the most celebrated pieces from the Ant Farm, a group of radical architects, video and performance artists, and visionaries formed by Michels and Chip Lord in 1968.
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