ATC @ UCB: Ant Farm, Monday 7:30pm

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From: Ken Goldberg <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:36:36 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Announce ATC @ UCBerkeley" <[email protected]>
Subject: ATC @ UCB: Ant Farm, Monday 7:30pm

ATC@UCB:

Iconographic Art Making: The Legacy of Ant Farm
Chip Lord (UCSC) and Constance Lewallen (Berkeley Art Museum)

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Mon, 14 Apr, 7:30-9:30pm: UC Berkeley,
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.

The artist collective Ant Farm emerged in the late 1960's, a period in
which collaboration went hand-in-hand with explorations of the
alternative fringe in architecture and art. Counter-cultural artists
and architects turned away from traditional institutional frameworks
and created alternative practices that became earthworks, conceptual
art, performance, video art, installation, and designer/builder
architecture. Ant Farm's hybrid practice touched on all of these
areas, which have since been formalized as genres of art practice.
While post-structuralism and deconstruction had not yet entered the
discourse of art criticism, Ant Farm's best works were prescient
illustrations of simulation theory and iconic spectacle demonstrating
a deep understanding of "the Society of the Spectacle."

Constance Lewallen, Senior Curator for Exhibitions at the BAM and
curator of the upcoming exhibition "Ant Farm 1968-1978" will begin the
program with a brief historical overview of Ant Farm's ten-year
collaboration.

In the second part of the program, artist Chip Lord, using slides and
video, will present Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Media Burn
(1975) projects, two works that achieved popular and wide ranging
visibility when they were created and then continued to extend their
reach and influence as icons over the next 25 years. Lord will detail
this history of appropriation, licensing, and remakes in art and
popular media.

http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/lord/

In 2004, the Berkeley Art Museum will present a major retrospective of
Ant Farm's work.

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