Ant Farm
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street
January 21–April 26, 2004
Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston
4173 Elgin Street
January 15–March 13, 2005
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstraße 19
June 11, 2013–July 24, 2005
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bergamot Station G1
2525 Michigan Avenue
July 2–August 14, 2004
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
118 South 36th Street
September 10–December 12, 2004
Curated by Constance Lewallen and Steve Seid
Europe in the 1960s and ’70s was a heady hodgepodge of radical utopian architectural groups such as Archigram, Utopie, and Superstudio. But the US had renegade architects Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier—aka Ant Farm. Deprived of a centuries-old architectural history to rebel against, the Ant Farmers integrated architecture with art, design, and video, all with a singular wittiness. This, their first museum retrospective, features over two hundred components dating from 1968 to 1978, including blueprints, architectural models, collages, video, and sculpture.