Antfarm and Doug Michels, 1989 - 1994
Comment from Mark Dery
Ant Farm (“an experimental design team developing art and architecture”) was a pioneering group of culture jammers whose performance art work, Media Burn (1975), helped catalyze my theorization of culture jamming. I describe that piece in the opening paragraph of my pamphlet on CJ.
File contains correspondence with Antfarm co-founder Doug Michels, Michels’s CV, articles on Michels and Ant Farm as well as Michels’s other conceptual-art projects, some of which share with Ant Farm’s activities a spirit of sociopolitical satire; materials related to Ant Farm co-founder Chip Lord;
and, in mailing envelope, postcards documenting video works and performance pieces by Chip Lord (and Mickey McGowan; “Easy Living”), Ant Farm (“The Cadillac Ranch,” “Media Burn”), and Lord, Michels, and Hudson Marquez [“S.T.P. (Save the Planets”)].
Dates
- Creation: 1989 - 1994
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 3.36 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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