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Series V: Doug Michels papers

Chip Lord papers on Ant Farm, 1965-2014

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Series III: Ant Farm papers

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

Subseries 1: Correspondence

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.


Box 03 Folder 01 Doug Michels [1 of 4], 1969-89

Correspondence, includes sketches by Doug Michels; Xeroxes; clippings


Box 03 Folder 02 Doug Michels [2 of 4], 1990-2009

Correspondence, includes sketches by Doug Michels; Xeroxes; clippings


Box 03 Folder 03 Doug Michels [3 of 4], undated

Correspondence, includes sketches by Doug Michels; Xeroxes; clippings; medium photograph : 1 item; postcards : 3 items


Box 03 Folder 04 Doug Michels [4 of 4], 1996-99

Emails; faxes


Box 03 Folder 05 Sent to Ant Farm [1 of 2], 1970-72

Correspondence, includes letters from Experiments in Art and Technology, The Rockeller Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, Architectural Design, and others [items in plastic sleeves, previously kept in white three-ring binder]; clippings; business card : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 06 Sent to Ant Farm [2 of 2], 1970-72

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]


Box 03 Folder 07 "New York", 1973-94

Correspondence, includes letters from Playboy, Esquire, New Times, Vincent Scully, and others; Xeroxes; clippings; business card : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 08 Requests & Inquiries, 1974, 1978-95

Correspondence, includes letters from The Museum of Modern Art, and others; Xeroxes


Box 03 Folder 09 Returned mail, 1984, 2003

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; postcards : 2 items

Subseries 2: Legal and Financial records

Subseries 2: Legal and Financial Records includes correspondence with various law firms regarding licensing and royalties, and correspondence with distributors, including Art Metropole, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Video Data Bank.


Box 03 Folder 10 Bank Statements [1 of 2], 1982-84

Bank statements for THE PUBLIC EYE INC ANT FARM PROJECT, 141 10th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103; invoices


Box 03 Folder 11 Bank Statements [2 of 2], 1994-2002

Bank statements for THE PUBLIC EYE INC ANT FARM PROJECT, 141 10th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103-2604, and THE PUBLIC EYE INC ANT FARM PROJECT, 2082 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, CA, 94131-1919; invoices


Box 03 Folder 12 Checks, undated

Checks no. 119-121 for Ant Farm Video, 994 Union Street, San Francisco, CA, 94133 : 3 items; checks no. 143-145 for Ant Farm, Inc. Book Account, 247 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA, 94965 : 3 items


Box 03 Folder 13 Royalties, 1981-2012

Correspondence, including MoMA, and Ripley's Believe It Or Not


Box 03 Folder 14 Miscellaneous legal correspondence, 1988-2000

Correspondence, includes correspondence with Law Offices of Lewis, Moore & Patrick; Law Offices of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch and Birch; Boasberg & Norton Attorneys at Law; Battle & Battle; and Law Offices of Matthew S. Watson


Box 03 Folder 15 Art Metropole, 1975-2008

Correspondence; Xeroxes; Art Metropole Catalogue no. 16 (1993); drawing, "A '59 Buick becomes a video playback environment" : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 16 Electronic Arts Intermix, 1982-2004

Correspndence; leaflets


Box 03 Folder 17 Circulating Video Library, The Museum of Modern Art, 1983, 1985

Catalog : 1 item; leaflet : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 18 The Video Data Bank, 1990-2001

Correspondence

Subseries 3: Legacy

Subseries 3: Legacy documents a proposed Ant Farm retrospective in the late 80s, a proposed Ant Farm CD, the possible inclusion of The Eternal Frame in a Voyager Press videodisc/videocassette project, a restoration project with the Pacific Film Archive, and acquisitions by the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Tate.


Box 03 Folder 19 Curriculum vitae, undated

Xeroxes


Box 03 Folder 20 Ant Farm retrospective, 1985-88

Correspondence, with Otis College of Art and Design, Oakland Museum, Virginia Commonwealth University, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Xeroxes; sketches


Box 03 Folder 21 Voyager Press, 1986-87

Correspondence, regarding inclusion of "The Eternal Frame" in Voyager Press videodisc/cassette project "Persistence of Vision: An Anthology of Artists' Work"; leaflets


Box 03 Folder 22 Ant Farm '88 Birthday Celebration, 1988

Medium photographs : 36 items; negatives; invitations : 4 items


Box 03 Folder 23 Ant Farm CD, 1994-95

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings


Box 03 Folder 24 Pacific Film Archive restoration, ca. 1998-02

Correspondence, includes letter from the National Gallery of Canada; Xeroxes, includes material from folder previously labelled "AF Video"; notes


Box 03 Folder 25 Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) acquisition, ca. 2000-01

Correspondence, regarding material in 2001 exhibition, "Pop Architecture"; Xeroxes; leaflet; business card; notes


Box 03 Folder 26 Ant Farm Video slides, ca. 2003

Xeroxes, captioned prints of slides in "Pratt Institute, Art and Architecture Department Library Slide Collection, Brooklyn, NY 11205" : 37 items


Box 03 Folder 27 Berkeley Art Museum (Berkley, CA) acquisition, ca. 2004-07

Correspondence, regarding material in 2004 exhibiton, "Ant Farm: 1968-1978"; Xeroxes; clippings


Box 03 Folder 28 FRAC (Orléans, France) acquistion, 2006-07

Correspondence; Xeroxes; leaflets; DVD containing high resolution images of Ant Farm works in the collection of the FRAC Centre : 1 item


Box 04 FRAC (Orléans, France) acquistion, 2006-07

DVD containing digital image files of drawings acquired by the FRAC


Box 03 Folder 29 Tate (London, UK) acquisition, ca. 2010-12

Correspondence, regarding acquisition of The Eternal Frame; Xeroxes; notes

Subseries 4: Printed Material

Subseries 4: Printed Material includes copies of publications with contributions by Ant Farm members, copies and Xeroxes of articles or publications on Ant Farm's work, and newspaper and magazine clippings.


Oversize 01 Designed by Ant Farm, 1970-71

Radical Software no. 4 (Summer 1971), cover designed by Ant Farm; as well as copies of Radical Software no. 1 (Summer 1970); Radical Software no. 2 (Spring 1970); Radical Software no. 3 (Spring 1971)


Oversize 01 Contributions by Ant Farm, 1975-81

Ant Farm, "Bulletin! 13 Out of 40 S.F. TV Sets Leak Radiation," City of San Francisco, vol. 9 no. 5 (August 3, 1975): 25, 26-27; "obituary," WET (July/August 1979): 19 : 2 items; Ant Farm, "Ant Farm-Chip Lord/Curtis Schreier," Video im Abenland (Decmeber 1979): 26-27; Chip Lord, VIDEO vol. 1 no. 1 (1980): 9, page 8/9 is missing; Chip Lord, "Abscam: Video In Crime & Justice," VIDEO, vol. 2 no. 1 (Fall 1981): 20, and Curtis Schreier, "Telly Vision," VIDEO vol. 2 no. 1 (Fall 1981): 45


Oversize 01 Others on Ant Farm, 1980-2010

Ellin Stein, "Ant Farm: From the Folks who Brought You the Cadillac Ranch," Boulevards (September 1980): 23-25; Tom Diehl, "Ant Farm in Houston, 1969-1973," and Mary Le Johnson, "House of the Century," Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston 31 (Winter-Spring 1994): 32-36, 37, includes letter addressed to Ant Farm from Thomas R. Diehl; Jessica Kedward-Sanchez, "Screen Test", firstdraft 6 (Fall 2007): 22-28; Friedrich von Borries, Klimakapseln: Überlebensbedingungen in der Katastrophe (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010); "Ant Farm/T.R. Uthco," VIDEO/TV: HUMOR/COMEDY (n.d.): 15


Box 04 Folder 07 Others on Ant Farm, 1982-2005, undated

Xeroxes of William Chaitkin, "Alternatives," in Architecture Today, ed. by Charles Jencks (New York : H. N. Abrams, 1982); Robert and Linda Mitchell, "Tail Fins Forever (Or, Anyone Who Names His Zebra 'Spot' Can't Be All Bad)," in Folk Art in Texas, ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy (Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1985), 26-29; Art Simon, "Assassination Video," in Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press: 1996); Johannes Birringer, "Burn Media Burn: (Texas) Video Art," ArtLies no. 25 (Winter 1999/2000): 9-15; Caroline Maniaque, "En quête de légèreté / In Search of Lightness," in Air-air: Celebrating Inflatables, ed. by Marie-Ève Mestre and Stéphane Magnin (Monaco: Grimaldi Forum, 2000), 119-149; draft of Patricia Mellencamp, "Ant Farm Redux: Pyrotechnics and Emergence," (October 2004); Ernest Larsen, "Junky and Important: The Collective Model in the Rearview Mirror," American Quarterly 57.1 (2005): 223-236; and others


Box 04 Folder 08 Theses on Ant Farm [1 of 2], 1991 May

Xerox of Mark Joseph Petr, "Ant Farm, the Art World and the Counter Culture of the 1960s" (Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, May, 1991)


Box 04 Folder 09 Theses on Ant Farm [2 of 2], 2014 Aug

Xerox of Patrick Maguire, "Terminal Structures: Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch, 1974" (Master's Thesis, The University of Utah, August, 2014)


Box 04 Folder 10 Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1973-1985, 1991, 2002, undated

Clippings, includes articles on Stanley Marsh 3, Milton Levine, Ant Farm, and others


Oversize 01 Newspaper and magazine clippings, 2000s

Clippings

Subseries 5: Photographs

Subseries 5: Photographs includes a collection of candid photographs of Ant Farm members, friends, and acquaintances taken between 1968 and 1978.


Box 03 Folder 30 Large photographs, 1968, 1970, undated

8 x 10" photograph, captioned "Doug Michels" : 1 item; 8 x 10" photograph of Kennedy Space Center by NASA (1968) : 1 item; 8 x 10" photograph of of "Frankstein Must Be Destroyed!" by Warner Bros, Inc. (1970) : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 31 Small photographs, 1970-78

Small photographs : 60 items; postcard : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 32 "PDFs, Ant Farm", undated

Bound prints of digital image files and transcripts of select press releases and articles

Subseries 6: Artifacts

Subseries 6: Artifacts contains a copy of Milton Martin Levine's Ant: Facts and Fantasies.


Box 03 Folder 33 Uncle Milton's Ant Farm, 1970, 1974

Milton Martin Levine, Ant: Facts and Fantasies (1970) : 1 item; clipping

Subseries 7: Events, lectures, and exhibitions

Subseries 7: Lectures and Exhibitions documents lectures given by Ant Farm members and exhibitions of Ant Farm's work through posters, catalogs, leaflets, and other printed matter.


Drawer 116 Folder 14 Videoworkshop, Studio Galerie (Stuttgart, Germany), 1979

Poster : 1 item


Drawer 116 Folder 13 The Amarillo Art Center (Amarillo, TX), 1981

Poster : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 34 The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), 1986

Catalogue : 1 item, "Collaborators: Artists Working Together in Houston 1969-1986"


Box 03 Folder 35 International Center of Photography (New York, NY), 1988

Leaflet : 1 item, "Ant Farm, 1971-77"


Box 03 Folder 36 Institut d'art contemporain (Villeurbanne, France), 2001

Correspondence; leaflet


Box 03 Folder 37 University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA), 2003

Leaflet


Box 03 Folder 38 Aurora Picture Show (Houston, TX), 2004

Correspondence; leaflets : 2 items: invitations : 2 items


Box 03 Folder 39 Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA), 2004

Xeroxes; clippings; leaflets : 2 items; University of California Press catalogue (Spring 2004) : 1 item


Oversize 01 Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA), 2004

Xeroxes; clippings; poster; leaflet


Box 03 Folder 40 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), 2004

Press package; leaflets; invitation : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 41 University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA), 2004

Postcards : 2 items


Oversize 01 Santa Monica Museum of Art (Santa Monica, CA), 2004

Xeroxes; clippings; postcard : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 42 Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston (Houston, TX), 2005

Leaflet : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 43 Cambridge Arts Council (Cambridge, MA), 2005

Correspondence; Xeroxes; leaflets : 2 items


Oversize 01 Yale School of Architecture (New Haven, CT), 2005

Xeroxes; leaflet; Constructs, Yale Architecture (Fall 2005)


Box 03 Folder 44 ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2005

Xerox; clipping


Drawer 116 Folder 14 ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2005

Poster : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 45 Belger Arts Center (Kansas City, MO), 2006-07

Correspondence; clipping; postcards : 3 items; leaflets : 3 items


Oversize 01 Belger Arts Center (Kansas City, MO), 2006-07

Xerox of newspaper clipping


Oversize 01 Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), 2006

Clippings


Box 03 Folder 46 l'Ecole d'Art de Blois (Blois, France), 2007

Xeroxes; postcards : 3 items


Oversize 01 The Lighthouse (Glasgow, UK), 2006

Xeroxes; poster


Box 03 Folder 47 FRAC Centre (Orleans, France), 2007

"Ant Farm Redux" postcards : 2 items


Oversize 01 Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University (New York, NY), 2008

"Ant Farm: Radical Hardware" poster : 1 item; leaflet : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 48 California College of Arts (San Francisco, CA), 2008

Correspondence; notes; postcard : 1 item; photograph pasted on loose sheet captioned "Deputy Dingus of Avant Garde Security Services on duty at Pier 40, San Francisco" : 1 item


Box 03 Folder 49 Musem Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna, Austria), 2008-09

Press package, "Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies – Utopian Architectures around 1968"; leaflets


Box 03 Folder 50 Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), undated

Xeroxes; see also [Centre Georges Pompidou, acquisition]


Box 03 Folder 51 Chicago Editing Center/School of the Art Institute (Chicago, IL), undated

Postcard : 1 item