ANT FARM 1968–1978 WED JAN 21 2004 - SUN APR 25 2004

On July 4, 1975, in the parking lot of San Francisco's Cow Palace, two artists, Curtis Schreier and Doug Michels, outfitted like astronauts, crawled into the Phantom Dream Car—a customized 1959 Cadillac Biarritz complete with interior video communication—and drove it full speed through a pyramid of flaming TVs. Media Burn, a spectacular performance, and later a widely distributed videotape, was a literal collision of two American icons: the car and the television set. It remains one of the most celebrated (and oft-imitated) pieces by the endlessly enterprising collective Ant Farm—radical architects, video, performance, and installation artists, and above all, visionaries and cultural commentators. The first museum retrospective of Ant Farm offers an intriguing look into Conceptual Art and the ethos of the late sixties and seventies, a time that has proved to be seminal for succeeding generations of adventuresome artists.

[/] BAM/PFA Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive