Chip Lord papers on Ant Farm, 1965-2014

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Series I: Project Records

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)].


Subseries 1: Projects

Subseries I: Projects contains all the project records, arranged in chronological order, with the exception of Cadillac Ranch, which is the subject Series II. Media Burn, the 1975 media event at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA, in which two "artist dummies" drove the Phantom Dream Car through a wall of flaming television sets, is represented in slightly greater detail with a few drawings, photographs, and select ephemera from the event. In most instances, material pertaining to individual projects is limited.



Box 01 Folder 01 Electronic Oasis, 1969?

Prints of digital image files : 3 items



Box 01 Folder 02 Enviroman, 1969

8" x 10" photograph : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 03 Inflatables and Inflatocookbook, 1969-73; 2000, 2003, 2005

Sketches; correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; Inflatocookbook (1971) : 1 item; Inflatocookbook (1973) : 1 item; loose sheets from Inflatocookbook (1971) : 3 items; large photographs : 3 items; small photographs of Ant Farm's "big pillow" at free Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, CA (December 1969) : 11 items; prints of photographs by Lawrence Fong of Roman Coppola's inflatable for Toyota Prius TV ad (2003) : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 04 Expo '70, 1970?

Bound booklets, proposal by Ant Farm for Expo '70 : 2 items; additional loose sheets



Box 01 Folder 05 Newman Media Studio/Residence, 1970-75?

Xerox of Sharon Lee Ryder, "From the folks who gave you 20-20 vision: After cadillac fins, video tape, time capsules and ferro-cement houses, Ant Farm's last two projects use ordinary materials for other than ordinary design," Progressive Architecture 56 (September 1975): 64-67; small photograph : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 01 Newman Media Studio/Residence, 1970, 1971

18" x 24" drawing, 1971 Sep 20 : 1 item; 18" x 24" "Kansas Rocket" drawing : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 06 Truckstop Network, 1970-71, undated

Xeroxes; sketches; clippings; large photographs : 2 items; medium photograph, captioned "Dome kit in the warehouse, Sausalito, 1970" : 1 item; Truckstop Network placemat [folded] : 1 item



Oversize 03 Truckstop Network, 1970?

"Top Value Television" and "Coastside Enviro-Education Forum" posters : 2 items; Truckstop Network placemats : 4 items



Box 01 Folder 07 House of the Century, 1971-75, 1997, undated

Xeroxes; clippings; large photograph : 1 item; small photographs, 1971-72 [previously kept in small photo album]: 13 items; slides : 6 items; print : 1 item; print captioned "1973 'Model'" : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 02 House of the Century, 1972

24" x 36" diazo print, sent by Doug Michels to Curtis Schreier with "Mr Fureal" rubber stamp impression : 1 item; sketches by Doug Michels : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 08 Time Capsule 1972-84, 1972, 2000, undated

Xeroxes; medium photographs of Time Capsule opening (2000) : 19 items; Ant Farm Time Capsule 1972-1984 patch : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 09 TVTV, 1972?

Large photographs : 2 items; small photographs : 2 items



Drawer 116 Folder 15 1973 College Tour, 1973

Poster : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 10 2020 Vision, 1973-74, undated

11" x 47" drawing by Curtis Schreier and Doug Michels [folded] : 1 item; posters : 3 items; Xeroxes; leaflets; large photrographs : 3 items; medium photographs : 17 items; small photograph : 1 item; Polaroid : 1 item; negatives



Drawer 116 Folder 03 2020 Vision, 1973

Poster : 1 item



Oversize 03 2020 Vision, 1973

"CalendarLOG" : 3 items; Xerox



Box 01 Folder 11 A Ferrocement Construction Guide, 1973

Xeroxes of "a ferrocement construction guide"



Box 01 Folder 12 Antioch Art Building, 1973

Xeroxes and clippings for "Antioch Visual Arts Building Feedback Survey"; photograph : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 13 Aerosol Arsenal, 1974-75

Xeroxes; clippings; note



Drawer 116 Folder 04 Dolphin Embassy, 1974

Drawing : 1 item; prints : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 15 Poole Residence, 1974-75?

Xerox and clippings of Sharon Lee Ryder, "From the folks who gave you 20-20 vision: After cadillac fins, video tape, time capsules and ferro-cement houses, Ant Farm's last two projects use ordinary materials for other than ordinary design," Progressive Architecture 56 (September 1975): 64-67; small photograph : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 05 Poole Residence, 1974

18" x 24" drawing : 1 item; 24" x 36" drawing, 3 May 1974 : 1 item; 18" x 24" drawing, 3 Aug 1974 : 1 item; 24" x 36" drawing, 6 Dec 1974 : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 16 Doggie Cola, 1975

Xeroxes; clippings; notes



Box 01 Folder 17 Freedomland, 1975

Xeroxes; Xeroxes of drawings [1 hand colored item]



Drawer 116 Folder 06 Iris Films Inc., 1975

24" x 36" drawings for "Old Mill Valley Library" and "Photo Lab" : 2 items



Box 04 Folder 01 Media Burn, 1974-75, undated

Collage : 1 item; correspondence; Xeroxes; Media Burn postcards, 1st printing, photo by John F. Turner (1975) : 10 items; Media Burn postcards : 3 items; "Media Burn: July 4 1975, Cow Palace, San Francisco" souvenir booklet : 1 item; "Media Burn: July 4, 1975" stickers : 5 items



Box 04 Folder 02 Media Burn photographs [1 of 2], 1975, undated

8 x 10" photograph by Diane Andrews Hall (1975) : 2 items; 5 x 7" photograph by Diane Andrews Hall : 1 item; 4 x 6" photographs by Diane Andrews Hall : 20 items; contact sheet by Diane Andrews Hall : 1 item; 8 x 0" photograph by Kim Ecclesine (1975) : 1 item; 8 x 10" photograph by Gary Fong : 1 item; 8 x 10" photograph by Norton Pearl Photography : 1 item; 8 x 10" photographs by Edmund Shea (1975) : 4 items; 5 x 8" photographs by Edmund Shea (1975) : 1 items; contact sheets by Edmund Shea (1975) : 10 items; 8 x 10" photograph by Robt. Ward Associates (1975) : 1 item; 8 x 10" photographs : 19 items; 5 x 7" photographs : 4 items; small photographs : 4 items



Box 04 Folder 03 Media Burn photographs [2 of 2], 1975, undated

Contact sheets : 5 items; negative by John F. Turner : 1 item; photostats : 6 items; transparencies : 6 items; Xeroxes



Box 04 Folder 04 Media Burn general correspondence, 1985-99

Correspondence; Xeroxes; faxes; invoices; postcards : 2 items



Box 04 Folder 05 Media Burn clippings, 1975-2003, undated

Clippings; Xeroxes; leaflet : 1 item; postcard : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 07 Media Burn, 1975, undated

24" x 26" site plan : 1 item; Phantom Dream Car drawing : 1 item; mock-up sketch : 1 item; 20" x 24" concept collage : 1 item; metal proof printing plates for Media Burn souvenir booklet : 2 items; Media Burn 40th anniversary print : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 18 The Eternal Frame, 1975

Xeroxes; clippings; "Doug Hall as the Artist-President, The Eternal Frame, by T. R. Uthco & Ant Farm" photograph by Diane Hall : 1 item; medium photograph pasted onto loose sheet: 1 item; "Assassination Scene, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy" postcard : 1 item; "President Kennedy's Assasination and Memorial Site, Dallas, Texas" postcard : 1 item; firstdraft: The Newsletter of the Getty Research Institute no. 6 (Fall 2007) : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 08 The Eternal Frame, 1975

Poster : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 19 TV Radiation Survey for City magazine, 1975

Xeroxes; survey forms : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 20 Citizens' Time Capsule 1975-2000, 1975-76

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; notes with inventories of items in time capsules; small photographs : 4 items; Polaroid pasted onto clippings : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 21 Automerica, 1976, undated

Xerox; negatives : 2 items; Ant Farm (written by Chip Lord, designed by Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier), Automerica: A trip down U.S. highways from World War II to the future (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976) : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 09 Automerica, undated

Drawing : 1 item; clippings



Box 01 Folder 22 Convention City, 1976?

Xeroxes; medium photograph : 1 item; small photographs : 2 items; Polaroids : 3 items; contact sheet : 1 item; slides : 9 items



Box 01 Folder 23 Australia 1976, 1976-77, 1997, undated

Xeroxes; clippings; diagram



Drawer 116 Folder 16 Ant Farm Trip '76, 1976

Poster for Ant Farm trip to Australia in 1976 : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 24 "Dunatai Corporation", 1977?

Sketches; correspondence, including items addressed to "Bill Bradan" for "professional design services on the production of 'He Wants Her Back'"; Xeroxes, including drawing of "Native American Heritage Pavilion 1968" by Chip Lord; clippings; Polaroids : 4 items



Box 01 Folder 25 Architecture Slide Show, 1979?

11" x 45" blueprint [folded] : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 10 Architecture Slide Show mock-up, undated

24" x 36" drawing by Curis Schreier : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 25 Save the Planets, 1986-87

Sketches; correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; notes; "The Cadillac Ranch" postcards : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 26 42MAR0, 1974

Xeroxes & clippings, mock-up of book proposal



Box 01 Folder 27 42MAR0, History of Ant Farm 1968-78, 1975-76

Bound copy of 42MAR0, mock-up of book proposal with pasted photographs and postcards



Box 01 Folder 28 42MAR0, 1999 Aug 9

Bound Xerox copy of 42MAR0



Box 01 Folder 29 42MAR0, 2000 Sep 23; 2005 May 25

Xeroxes of 42MAR0 with additional pages from the portfolios of 2020 VISION and Media Burn



Box 01 Folder 30 42MAR0 Miscellaneous, undated

Sketches; Xeroxes; clippings; photographs : 2 items



Box 01 Folder 31 Ant Farm 1968-78, Unique Timeline Object for Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2002-03

Xeroxes; collages [material previously housed in folder labelled "process 2002-2003 in preparation for the exhibition Ant Farm 1968-78"]



Drawer 116 Folder 11 Marsh Offices, undated

21" x 30" drawing : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 32 Outlaw Area Energy Credit, undated

11" x 17" print [folded] : 1 item; clipping; negatives : 4 items


Subseries 2: Other Work

Subseries II: Other Work includes collages for and Xeroxes of Ant Farm handouts, mail art, a collaborative "sketchbook" that was left on the dining table in the Ant Farm warehouse, four "letterpress items printed by Curtis Schreier," copies of Ant Farm postcards, and other miscellaneous material.



Box 01 Folder 33 Ant Farm handouts, ca. 1968-73

Correspondence; Xeroxes; collages, includes material related to Enviroman, Electronic Oasis, Inflatables, 20:20 Vision, and others [21 items in individual plastic sleeves previously housed in folder titled "Original Ant Farm Handouts"]



Oversize 03 Scrapbook, 1970-71

"This was an open collaborative sketchbook kept on the dining table in the Ant Farm warehouse (247 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA). Contributions by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez, Doug Michels, and less frequently Curtis Schreier and others," scrapbook : 1 item



Drawer 116 Folder 12 Miscellaneous collages and drawing, 1972, 1988, undated

National Geographic Evolution diagram updated by Doug Michels (1972) : 2 items; Trabant Shrine (Hiroshima, Japan) drawing by Doug Michels sent to Chip Lord (1990) : 1 item; sketch : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 34 "Flyer/Mail Art", undated

Xeroxes; sketches, includes undated material related to Media Burn



Box 01 Folder 35 "Letterpress items printed by Curtis Schreier", undated

4 items



Box 01 Folder 36 Miscellaneous work, undated

Collages, includes material related to Playboy proposal, Time Slice, and other projects [material consolidated from folders titled "Ant Farm Good Stuff," "Ant Farm Original Art," and others]; Xeroxes; clippings; large photograph : 1 item; small photograph : 1 item



Box 01 Folder 37 Postcards, undated

"'52 Pontiac," photo by Chip Lord : 7 items; "T.V. Head at Chuckberger's Restaurant, San Leandro," photo by Jules Backus, 1980, styled by Chip Lord : 1 item; "The Eternal Frame by Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco," photo by Diane Hall : 1 item; "Thunderocket" : 4 items; Media Burn postcards : 2 items

Series II: Cadillac Ranch

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.


Subseries 1: Correspondence

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



Box 01 Folder 38 Letters to Stanley Marsh 3, 1972-75, 1983

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; Polaroid : 1 item; postcards : 2 items



Oversize 02 Letters from Stanley Marsh 3, 1973-95, 1996, 2003

Correspondence; envelopes



Box 02 Folder 01 General Correspondence, 1979-93

Correspondence, includes sketches by Doug Michels for Cadillac Ranch National Monument plaque; Xeroxes


Subseries 2: Legal and Financial Records

Subseries 2: Legal and Financial Records documents the licensed and unlicensed use of Cadillac Ranch and related royalties, and includes correspondence with various law firms as well as the Curtis Management Group.



Box 02 Folder 02 Licensing [1 of 2], 1980-97

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; medium photographs : 6 items



Box 02 Folder 03 Licensing [2 of 2], 2003, 2009-10

Correspondence



Box 02 Folder 04 Legal [1 of 2], 1977, 1982-89

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; medium photographs : 2 items



Box 02 Folder 05 Legal [2 of 2], 1991-93, 1995

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; medium photograph : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 06 Law Offices of Michael Couzens, 1992-94

Correspondence; Xeroxes



Box 02 Folder 07 Curtis Management Group [1 of 2], 1993-94

Correspondence; Xeroxes; leaflets; business card : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 08 Curtis Management Group [2 of 2], 1995-2002

Correspondence; Xeroxes; postcard : 1 item


Subseries 3: Legacy

Subseries 3: Legacy documents tenth and twentieth anniversary celebrations held in 1984 and 1994, the creation of the Cadillac Ranch logo, the development of the Cadillac Ranch movie, the Hampton Inn hotel chain-sponsored "restoration" in 2002, and the matte black repainting of Cadillac Ranch to mark the passing of Doug Michels in 2003.



Box 02 Folder 09 "The Making of Cadillac Ranch by Ant Farm", post-1983?

Xeroxes; notes; collages



Box 02 Folder 10 Tenth Anniversary, 1983-84

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings



Drawer 116 Folder 13 Tenth Anniversary, 1984

Poster : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 11 "'Cadillac Ranch' The Movie" script, 1990

Correspondence; Xeroxes; script



Box 02 Folder 12 "Cadillac Ranch 1974/1994" film, 1993-1997

Correspondence; notes; Xeroxes; clippings; leaflets; postcards : 3 items



Box 02 Folder 13 Twentieth Anniversary, 1994-95

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; photographs : 40 items; postcard : 1 item; stickers



Box 02 Folder 14 Logo, 1994-95

Sketches; correspondence; Xeroxes; large photographs : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 15 Movie, correspondence, 1995, 1998

Correspondence; Xeroxes



Box 02 Folder 16 Moved, 1995, 1997, 2000

Clippings; Xeroxes; medium photographs : 30 items; small photograph (June 1995) : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 17 Products, 1996-97; 2000

Correspondence; Xeroxes; "The Texas Postcard Company" catalog : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 18 Hampton Inn "Restoration", 2002

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; medium photographs : 21 items [one photograph affixed to original folder]; On the Road with Hampton vol. 2 no. 3 (2002) : 2 items; postcards : 2 items [one postcard affixed to original folder]



Oversize 03 Hampton Inn "Restoration", 2002

Drawing : 1 item; Xeroxes



Box 02 Folder 19 Painted matte black, photographs by Philip Periman, 2003

Correspondence; Xeroxes; large photographs by Philip Periman : 18 items; medium photographs by Philip Periman : 3 items


Subseries 4: Printed Material

Subseries 4: Printed Material includes a substantial collection (arranged by decade) of newspaper and magazine clippings related to Cadillac Ranch, a bound copy of Xeroxed press clippings and Cadillac Ranch-related correspondence produced by the group for the work's twentieth anniversary, and various advertisements, postcards, posters, and publications featuring images of Cadillac Ranch.



Box 02 Folder 20 Press clipping book, draft, pre-1987

Xeroxes; medium photograph : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 21 Press clipping book, Twentieth Anniversary, 1994

Xeroxes, bound



Box 02 Folder 22 Miscellaneous correspondence, etc. included in Twentieth Anniversary book, 1974-94

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings; postcards



Box 02 Folder 23 Miscellaneous correspondence, etc. not incldued in Twentieth Anniversary book, 1974-92

Correspondence; Xeroxes; clippings



Box 02 Folder 24 Press clippings, 1974-79

Clippings & Xeroxes, arranged in chronological order



Box 02 Folder 25 Press clippings, 1980-89

Clippings & Xeroxes, arranged in chronological order



Box 02 Folder 26 Press clippings, 1990-97

Clippings & Xeroxes, arranged in chronological order



Box 02 Folder 27 Press clippings, 2000-13

Clippings & Xeroxes, arranged in chronological order



Box 02 Folder 28 Press clippings, undated

Clippings; Xeroxes



Box 02 Folder 29 Advertisements featuring Cadillac Ranch, 1984-2009

Clippings; Xeroxes; posters



Box 01 Folder 39 Chrysler advertisements, undated

Large posters : 2 items



Drawer 116 Folder 13 Compaq advertisement, undated

Poster : 1 item



Box 02 Folder 30 Postcards, calendars, undated

"the ultimate roadside attraction," calendar by Roth and Ramberg Photography : 2 items; Postcard booklet, photographs by Wyatt McSpadden : 4 items; Cadillac Ranch postcard, photograph by Buddy Moffet : 6 items; "MAD CAD" postcard, featuring 1960 Cadillac Sedan de Ville created by California artist Larry Fuente, photograph by Louie Psihoyos : 1 item; "The Cadillac Ranch" postcard, published by Marsh Media, Amarillo, TX : 5 items; "The Cadillac Ranch," photograph by Chip Lord, 1978 : 1 item; "The Cadillac Ranch," photograph by Wyatt McSpadden, 1979 : 7 items; "The Cadillac Ranch," photograph by Ant Farm : 5 items



Box 04 Folder 06 Magazines, tour guides, exhibition catalogues, 1985, 1994, 2002, 2015

The Big Car Show: Contemporary Visions of the Automobile (1985) : 3 items; Texas Monthly (July 1994) : 1 item; Interior Design no. 10 (August 1994) : 1 item; On the Road with Hampton vol. 2 no. 3 (2002) : 4 items; Route 66 Magazine vol. 9 no. 2 (Spring 2002); Amarillo Visitor Guide (2015);



Drawer 116 Folder 13 Posters, 1994, 2006

"20th Anniversary Limitied Edition, Cadillac Ranch" print, photo by Jefferies : 1 item; poster, Wyatt McSpadden at Cityplace, Dallas, Texas, 4 October 2006 : 1 item


Subseries 5: Photographs

Subseries 5: Photographs includes prints and negatives of photographs by Chip Lord, Peter de Lory, Wyatt McSpadden, and others.



Box 01 Folder 40 "Photographed for Stanley Marsh 3", pre-1974?

8.5 x 12.5 photographs pasted on card : 3 items



Box 02 Folder 31 Photographs [1 of 2], 1975-2004

Medium photographs pasted on paper (1974?) : 3 items; 8 x 10" photograph by Wyatt McSpadden (1975) : 1 item; medium photographs by Judy Ahern Salsich (1977) : 2 items, correspondence dated 4 August 2009; 4.5 x 6.5" photograph by Craig Stecyk (1978) : 1 item; 5 x 7" photographs by Chip Lord (1981) : 7 items, 8 x 10" photographs by Chip Lord (1981) : 6 items, negative, receipt; 2 x 2.75" proof by Skypix Aerial Photography Inc. (12 April 1983) : 1 item; 3.5 x 5" photographs by "C. Jackson" (February 1990) : 13 items; Contact sheets by Peter de Lory (January 1993) : 3 items; 4 x 6" photograph of German poster featuring Cadillac Ranch : 1 item; 4 x 6" photgraphs (12 August 1998) : 3 items; Polaroids with captions (1999) : 3 items; 4 x 6" photograph, Cadillac Ranch Thirtieth Anniversary party (21 June 2004): 1 item; Cadillac Ranch Thirtieth Anniversary, 2 CDs and 18 contact sheets by Wendy Marsh (21 June 2004); Xeroxes



Box 02 Folder 32 Photographs [2 of 2], undated

3.5 x 4.5" holographic prints : 2 items; Polaroids : 3 items; 8 x 10" photograph : 1 item; 3.5 x 3.5" photographs : 3 items (1 cropped); 8 x 10" photographs, one labelled "1984 Hard Rock Cafe battle" : 2 item; 8 x 10" photograph : 1 item; 8 x 10" photographs by Wyatt McSpadden : 2 item; 3 x 4.5" color negative : 1 item; 3 1/8 x 4 5/8" photographs : 3 items; 4 x 6 " photograph of Cadillac Ranch-like ad for Absolut Vodka : 1 item Xeroxes



Drawer 116 Folder 13 Photographs, 1987, undated

"Ant Farm, The New Generation" : 1 item; 8 x 10" photograph by Taylor Wampler (1987) : 1 item; 10 x 14" photograph with postcard affixed on top : 1 item


Subseries 6: Artifacts

Subseries 6: Artifacts contains Cadillac Ranch-related ephemera.



Box 04 Folder 17 Ephemera, undated

Cadillac Ranch baseball cap : 1 item; Cadillac Ranch mug : 1 item; Cadillac Ranch shot glass : 1 item; "Cadillac Ranch: In Steak We Trust" matchbooks : 2 items; "Route 66: Main Street of America" vanity license plate : 1 item; Cadillac Ranch swizzle stick : 1 item; child's drawing of Cadillac Ranch : 1 item; "Cadillac-station" coaster : 1 item; business cars : 2 items [items also found in adjacent box]

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

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

Series V: Doug Michels papers

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.



Box 04 Folder 11 pre-Ant Farm, 1965-70

Xeroxes; clippings; small photograph : 1 item



Box 04 Folder 12 "Various promotional material", ca. 1967-03

Xeroxes, includes reproductions of correspondence, magazine and newspaper articles, press releases, photographs, and sketches



Box 04 Folder 13 Brainwave, 1977

Brainwave, a film by Alexandra Morphett and Doug Michels, screenplay by Tony Morphett (Brainwave Productions Ltd., 1977)



Box 04 Folder 14 Bluestar, ca. 1986-95

Correspondence, includes letter addressed to Chip Lord; Xeroxes; clippings; slide : 1 item; The Futurist (January/February 1987) : 1 item; business cards : 2 items



Box 04 Folder 15 Miscellaneous, 1980s-00s

Xeroxes; clippings



Box 04 Folder 16 Obituaries, 2003

Clippings; postcard : 1 item; Peter Eichenlaub, "Doug Michels (1943-2003)," Texas Architect (September/October 2003): 20,58; Chip Lord, "Remembering Doug Michels," arcCA 03.3 (2003): 56; Michael Sorkin, "Of dolphins, comedy, and architecture: Remembering Doug Michels and Ant Farm," Architectural Record 9 (2003): 83-84



Oversize 01 Obituaries, 2003

Nina Rappaport, et al. "Tributes to Doug Michels," Constructs, Yale Architecture (Fall 2003): 27