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Series V: Doug Michels papers

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