Art of Ant Farm: their enduring landmark, a mixed media event, and more
July 6, 2020 10:42 AM Subscribe
A year after creating "arguably the most famous landmark in the Texas panhandle," Cadillac Ranch (Trip Advisor; 1974/1994 short documentary; MoMA; Texas Monthly), Ant Farm (Wikipedia) set up a different sort of temporary event/mixed media piece called Media Burn (original video), whose centerpieces was when a modified Cadillac drove through a burning (smouldering?) wall of televisions (Mltshp; MOMA; MOCAtv short documentary).
Bonus videos
* Kill Your TV: How Bay Area Video Art Exploded in the 1970s | KQED Arts (9 minutes)
-- Video Free America 1970–1983 (41:52)
-- Roberta Breitmore by Lynn Hershman Leeson, including the "construction chart"
-- The Eternal Frame [no audio] - Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco
* "Ant Farm: Then and Now": An Artist's Talk by Chip Lord (1.5 hours)
Previously: Media Burn mentioned, linking back to a post from 2003.
Bonus videos
* Kill Your TV: How Bay Area Video Art Exploded in the 1970s | KQED Arts (9 minutes)
-- Video Free America 1970–1983 (41:52)
-- Roberta Breitmore by Lynn Hershman Leeson, including the "construction chart"
-- The Eternal Frame [no audio] - Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco
* "Ant Farm: Then and Now": An Artist's Talk by Chip Lord (1.5 hours)
Previously: Media Burn mentioned, linking back to a post from 2003.
Ant Farm yesss!
They participated in the San Francisco Artists' Soap Box Derby of 1975, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA,) memorialized in video form.
posted by Lawn Beaver at 11:44 AM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
They participated in the San Francisco Artists' Soap Box Derby of 1975, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA,) memorialized in video form.
posted by Lawn Beaver at 11:44 AM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Ant Farm's Inflatocookbook (original edition pdf) (3rd edition with color).
posted by fairmettle at 1:14 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by fairmettle at 1:14 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Ant Farm's book Automerica permanently rewired my brain when I was in high school.
posted by ardgedee at 1:31 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by ardgedee at 1:31 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Cadillac Ranch, and the patron Stanley Marsh 3rd, previously: Amarillo's Marsh Art (2010)
[Content warning: general discussion of sexual predation and abuse of teenage boys]
And the bleak follow-up: Angels and Dogs Are Not Very Different: Stanley Marsh III (2013). The Downfall of Stanley Marsh: Darkness on the Plains (Texas Monthly). More stark details on his Wikipedia page.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:59 PM on July 6, 2020
[Content warning: general discussion of sexual predation and abuse of teenage boys]
And the bleak follow-up: Angels and Dogs Are Not Very Different: Stanley Marsh III (2013). The Downfall of Stanley Marsh: Darkness on the Plains (Texas Monthly). More stark details on his Wikipedia page.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:59 PM on July 6, 2020
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Additional bonus: The Plasmatics later recreated Media Burn with a school bus
posted by Mchelly at 11:41 AM on July 6, 2020 [4 favorites]