Ant Farm (group)
Ant Farm was a group of visionary architects founded in San Francisco in 1968, who were also video, performance and installation artists.
The founding members were Doug Michels , Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier . Occasionally Douglas Hurr and Hudson Marquez also worked in this group . Her role models were avant-garde architects such as Richard Buckminster Fuller , Paolo Soleri and the British architectural team Archigram .
In 1977, Ant Farm's work was shown at Documenta 6 in Kassel .
Ant Farm broke up in 1978 when a fire destroyed their studio on Pier 40 in San Francisco .
Works
- Electronic Oasis (1969)
- Space Cowboy Meets Plastic Businessman (1969)
- House of Century (1973)
- Cadillac Ranch (1974) west of the city of Amarillo , Texas on Interstate I-40 along the famous Route 66
- Media Burn (1975)
- The Eternal Frame (1975)
- The Dolphin Embassy (1977)
literature
- Jennifer Siegal (Ed.): Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture , New York 2002.
- Lewallen, Constance, Steve Seid, Chip Lord: Ant Farm, 1968–1978 , Berkeley: University of California 2004.
- Felicity D. Scott: Living Archive 7: Ant Farm , Actar, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-96954-24-3
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
Web links
- Medienkunstnetz.de: short biography + some photos
- Online exhibition
- Ant Farm in the nbk video forum
- Ant Farm on kunstaspekte.de
- Materials from and about Ant Farm (group) in the documenta archive