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Ant Farm

Ant Farm

Ant Farm is a San Francisco-based collective of artists and architects working between 1968 and 1978. Ant Farm members included Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Hudson Marquez, and Curtis Schreier. This collective was distinctly interdisciplinary while combining architecture, performance, media, happenings, sculpture, and graphic design. External Links For accessing their video works from Video Data Bank http://www.vdb.org/artists/ant-farm  

Eternal Frame, The

a 1975 video piece documenting the reenactment of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza in a collaboration between two San Francisco-based artist collectives: T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm . The artists taking on the roles of Kennedy, Jackie, and others rehearsed extensively to ensure verisimilitude, and when they performed the reenactment, it was …

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