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Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence, includes letters from various universities, publishers, such as Design Quarterly, Archigram, Experiments in Art and Technology, l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, Environmental Communications, Lawrence Halprin & Associates, and others [items in plastic sleeves, previously kept in white three-ring binder]

Abstract Or Scope: Series II: Cadillac Ranch contains ephemera, correspondence, clippings, and photographs that document the life of Ant Farm's perhaps best known work, created in 1974 on art patron Stanley Marsh 3's property, near Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas. The series is divided into six subseries.

Abstract Or Scope: Series III: Ant Farm papers contains correspondence and publications related to the group's work and subsequent activities after the group disbanded in 1978.

Abstract Or Scope: Series I: Project Records contains drawings, collages, correspondence, photographs and other material related to Ant Farm projects undertaken between 1968 and 1978. In addition, this series includes material documenting successive editions of 42MAR0, the Ant Farm Timeline, a self-published survey of the group's work that eventually framed the 2004 retrospective organized by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [editions of the timeline have since been published in Felicity D. Scott, Living Archive 7: Ant Farm (Barcelona; New York, NY: Actar, 2008) and Constance Lewallen, ed. Ant Farm, 1968-1978 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2004)].

Abstract Or Scope: Series IV: Slides and Videos includes over 1,300 slides and 11 DVDs, including complete sets of Ant Farm's three "slidesets" distributed by Environmental Communications.

Abstract Or Scope: Series V: Doug Michels papers contains material produced by or published on Ant Farm co-founder Doug Michels. This includes the script for Brainwave, a feature film based on the Dolphin Embassy concept, and material on Michels' Bluestar project, a space station occupied by humans and dolphins, as well as various documents relating to trips taken to Australia and Japan. This series also contains obituaries published in newspapers and magazines collected by Chip Lord following Michels' sudden, tragic death on June 12, 2003.

Abstract Or Scope: DVD, "A film by Laura Harrison & Elizabeth Federici, www.antfarmthemovie.com" : 1 item

Abstract Or Scope: Subseries 1: Correspondence includes over two decades of correspondence with Cadillac Ranch sponsor Stanley Marsh 3.

Abstract Or Scope: Subseries 1: Correspondence> includes requests and inquiries sent to the group from a variety of individuals, publications, universities, and cultural institutions, and a collection of correspondence from Ant Farm member Doug Michels.

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