Chip Lord papers on Ant Farm, 1965-2014

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Series IV: Slides and Videos

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.


Subseries 1: Slides

Subseries 1: Slides contains all the slides, as well as two issues of Environmental Communications.



Box 05 Folder 01 Environmental Communications, "House of the Century", 1973

Slides : 26 items [two slides numbered #26]



Box 05 Folder 02 Environmental Communications, "Ant Farm Works", 1974

Slides : 68 items [includes duplicate of slide #32]



Box 05 Folder 03 Environmental Communications, "The Roadside Environment", 1974

Slides : 44 items



Box 05 Folder 04 Environmental Communications (1974/1975; 1979), 1974-75; 1979

Catalogues : 2 items



Box 05 Folder 05 Miscellaneous slides

Slides, includes slides of Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, Citizen's Time Capsule, inflatables, Time Slice, House of Century, Living Room of the Future, Convention City, Antioch Art Building, Bluestar, The Eternal Frame, and others, slides by Chip Lord, Philip Makanna, Jules Backus, Shellee Graham, D. LuAnn Brandt, and others [previously housed in unmarked blue binder] : 176 items



Box 05 Folder 06 Portfolio #1 [1 of 3], ca. 1971-90

Slides : 163 items ("Newman Media Room [orig.] remodeling 1971-72" : 9 items; "Poole remodel [orig.] 1974" : 8 items; " HDXB Idea Lounge [orig.]" : 10 items; "Media Van [orig.]" : 22 items; "TVTV in Miami 1972" : 1 item; "Truckstop" : 2 items; "Ant Farm mics. models" : 23 items; "141 10th St. Ideas in Motion studio 1980-90 post-1978 fire" : 8 items; "Pier 40 Ant Farm studio 1973-78 before fire" : 22 items; "Pier 40 studio after the fire" : 23 items; "Convention City 1972" : 35 items)



Box 05 Folder 07 Portfolio #1 [2 of 3], ca. 1970-77

Slides : 187 items ("Expedition Delphin 1977, Baja, CA" : 17 items; "Weingberg loft Chicago 1977, Lord & Schreier" : 10 items; "Roadside America" : 13 items; "Inflato & parachutes orignals" : 50 items; "Inflatable dupes & E.C. series" : 11 items; "Domes" : 22 items; "House of the Century originals" : 53 items; "Dupes of Richard Jost slides," slides of House of the Century : 11 items)



Box 05 Folder 08 Portfolio #1 [3 of 3], ca. 1969-77

Slides : 93 items ("Antioch Art Building, 'Best'" : 20 items; "Antioch Art Building, 'Not the best'" : 50 items; "Misc. dupes," includes slides of Media Burn, Dolphin Embassy, Cadillac Ranch, inflatables, and others : 23 items)



Box 06 Folder 01 Portfolio #2 [1 of 4], 1975, 1986

Slides : 201 items ("Media Burn," set #1, includes slides by John F. Turner, and others : 20 items; "Media Burn," set #2, includes slides by Bill Harlan, and others : 20 items; "Media Burn," set #3, includes slides by Diane A. Hall, Bill Harlan, and others : 20 items; "Media Burn," set #4 : 8 items; "Media Burn," set #5, includes slides by Philip Makanna, John F. Turner, and others : 18 items; "Save the Planets 1986, Lord, Marquez, Michels" : 23 items; "Artpark Citizen's Time Capsule 1975-2000," set #1 : 75 items; "Artpark Citizen's Time Capsule 1975-2000," set #2 : 17 items)



Box 06 Folder 02 Portfolio #2 [2 of 4], 1974, 1975

Slides : 139 items ("The Eternal Frame" : 36 items; "Cadillac Ranch 10th Anniversary" : 44 items; "Cadillac Ranch acquisition" : 14 items; "Cadillac Ranch installation, June 16-20, 1974" : 17 items; "Cadillac Ranch video production, June 1974" : 12 items; "Cadillac Ranch opening party, June 21, 1974" : 16 items)



Box 06 Folder 03 Portfolio #2 [3 of 4], ca. 1969-85

Slides : 169 items ("Cadillac Ranch evolution" : 111 items; "Cadillac Ranch, Bud Lee" : 11 items; "Early Ant Farm Art: Environman Events, Electronic Oasis" : 43 items; "100 TVs & Beyond Things Past" : 4 items)



Box 06 Folder 04 Portfolio #2 [4 of 4], ca. 1969-80

Slides : 156 items ("People: Ant Farm in Costume & with Cars" : 56 items; "Time Capsules" : 10 items; "7 Car Pile-cup, Artists Soapbox Derby, SFMOMA, 1975" : 8 items; "1969 Enviroimages" : 19 items; "Aerosol Arsenal, 1975" : 8 items; "TV Radiation Survey, 1975" : 9 items; "20:20 Vision exhibition" : 46 items)


Subseries 2: Videos

Subseries 2:Videos includes the DVDs, as well as two reels of original 16mm film.

[RESTRICTION: Please note, all time-based media in the collection is currently closed pending preservation work.]



Oversize 04 Ant Farm Inflatables 1969/70, 1969-1970, 1 film reels

16 mm film reel.



Oversize 04 Ant Farm Inflatables 1969/70, 1969-1970

4 DVD copies of 16mm film: "Filmed by Kelly Gloger. 22:30 min. High quality film to dvcam video transfer at Monaco Lab, San Francisco, Sept. 2006. Archival, unedited film content with a head title added by Chip Lord, 2006"



Oversize 04 Freedomland, 1973, 1 DVDs

DVD, "1973 project, promotional video sent to developer in Houston, TX," 9:00 min : 1 item



Oversize 04 Ant Farm Video, 2003, 1 DVDs

DVDs, "Classics of video art from the 1970's by the notorious Art and Architecture group: Cadillac Ranch 1974/1994, Media Burn, Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes, Inflatables Illustrated, World's Longest Bridge, Time Capsule 1972-1984, OFF-AIR Australia" : 2 copies



Oversize 04 Truckstop Network, 2008, 1 DVDs

DVD, "Ant Farm Truckstop Network & Truckstop Tour Video: Sausalito Slide Show, Scottsdale Hilton, Ant Farm Documentation, Apollo 17, Media Van at Tulane, World's Longest Bridge, and Johnny Romeo at Yale" : 1 item



Oversize 04 Ant Farm, Citizen's Time Capsule, 1975-2000, 2010, 1 DVDs

DVD, "Burial video: 13:50 min; Shot: Sept. 7, 1975; Edited: 2010 by Chip Lord" : 1 item



Oversize 04 Space, Land and Time, Underground Adventures with Ant Farm: A documentary about the 1970s architecture collective, 2010, 1 DVDs

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



Oversize 04 Phantom Dream Car, undated, 1 film reels

16mm film, "Film by Jane Aaron" : 1 item



Oversize 04 Doug Michel, 1943-2003, undated, 1 DVDs

DVD, "Doug Michels video clips, 6:30," includes footage from Truckstop Tour (1971), 100 Television Sets (1972), Time Capsule 1972-84 (1972, 2000), The Eternal Frame (1975), Cadillac Ranch, 10th Anniversary (1984) : 1 item