Felicity D. Scott presents a detailed and extensively illustrated reconsideration of the early trajectory of the Ant Farm collective, including its architecture, inflatables, performance, multimedia, and video work. Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Living Archive 7: Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline, as well as Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout (1969) and an archival dossier on Ant Farm's Truckstop Network (1970-1972). On Exhibition: Ant Farm: Radical Hardware, Columbia University, New York, Spring 2008.
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Ant Farm - Living Archive 7 demonstrates the relevance of Ant Farm's work by situating it within the context of contemporary events and culture. It is incredibly well documented and illustrated with pictures, sketches, and other historical images. I found the illustrations so amazing that i'm going to shut my mouth, leave you with this little video i made to show you what's inside the book and spend some time with that wii fit i finally managed to snatch in a little shop over there in sleepy Namur! --we make money not art<br /><br />Featuring the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline and Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout this omnibus contains everything you always and probably never wanted to know about the experimental Architecture collective. --Life Without Buildings<br /><br />Less a book than an event: a kinetic collage...Scott's agile prose gives us our bearings in the ephemera and breathes life into the archive. --artonpaper-- A fascinating retrospective of the 'super-radical activist environmentalist' art collective...Prescient stuff, the influence of which can be seen everywhere today, from the work of KLF to architectural proposals by Future Systems etc. --Kosmograd
Architects get radical with electronics and environmental politics in this 21st century look back at the Ant Farm...Ant Farm unleashed their video art and blobby structures decades before the introduction of Maya and form-Z. --Architect Magazine
Very beautifully designed and it includes an awe-inspiring 120-page Timeline of the group's output; these images alone really only about two-thirds of the book's total eye candy make it a rewarding and memorable read.--BLDGBLOG
Less a book than an event: a kinetic collage...Scott s agile prose gives us our bearings in the ephemera and breathes life into the archive. --artonpaper
Featuring the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline and Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout this omnibus contains everything you always and probably never wanted to know about the experimental Architecture collective. --Life Without Buildings
Architects get radical with electronics and environmental politics in this 21st century look back at the Ant Farm...Ant Farm unleashed their video art and blobby structures decades before the introduction of Maya and form-Z. --Architect Magazine
Very beautifully designed and it includes an awe-inspiring 120-page Timeline of the group's output; these images alone really only about two-thirds of the book's total eye candy make it a rewarding and memorable read.--BLDGBLOG
Less a book than an event: a kinetic collage...Scott s agile prose gives us our bearings in the ephemera and breathes life into the archive. --artonpaper
Featuring the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline and Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout this omnibus contains everything you always and probably never wanted to know about the experimental Architecture collective. --Life Without Buildings
About the Author
Felicity D. Scott is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia UniversityA 's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding co-editor of Grey Room, a quarterly journal of architecture, art, media, and politics published by MIT Press since Fall 2000. Her book, entitled Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism, appeared on MIT Press in 2007.
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Ant Farm manifesto No. 853 bears the title "Allegorical Time Warp." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electronic oasis, liferaft earth, air emergency, conceptual architecture, lunar rover, environmental communications, ant farm, media van, inflatable structures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Curtis Schreier, New York, Courtesy Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Whole Earth Catalog, San Francisco, The House of the Century, Media Burn, Truckstop Network, Time Slice, Doug Hurr, United States, Kelly Gloger, Dolphin Embassy, Convention City, University of Houston, Truckstop Tour, Time Capsule, Richard Jost, Prime Time, Los Angeles, Nationwide Builders, Buckminster Fuller, World's Largest Snake, Guerilla Television Browse Sample Pages:
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Ant Farm manifesto No. 853 bears the title "Allegorical Time Warp." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electronic oasis, liferaft earth, air emergency, conceptual architecture, lunar rover, environmental communications, ant farm, media van, inflatable structures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Curtis Schreier, New York, Courtesy Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Whole Earth Catalog, San Francisco, The House of the Century, Media Burn, Truckstop Network, Time Slice, Doug Hurr, United States, Kelly Gloger, Dolphin Embassy, Convention City, University of Houston, Truckstop Tour, Time Capsule, Richard Jost, Prime Time, Los Angeles, Nationwide Builders, Buckminster Fuller, World's Largest Snake, Guerilla Television Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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