Ant Farm (group)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about a group of architects. For other uses, see Ant farm (disambiguation)

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. Ant Farm could be regarded today as a very effective mix between Archigram, the Rolling Stones and The Yes Men. Ant Farm embraced the latest technologies at the same time as they hit American culture on the head with their social and political comments and their highly critical (up to being in some cases destructive) approach to mass media.^[1] 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 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.