Chip Lord (b. 1944, Cleveland, Ohio) is a media artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. Since 1980 he has also worked independently and in collaboration producing video installations documentary and experimental genres, often mixing the two, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a survey of his work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. His project Movie Map, which includes photographs of San Francisco neighborhood theatres was shown at Rena Bransten Gallery in 2003. He is a Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at U.C. Santa Cruz, and he lives in San Francisco.
The exhibition, ANT FARM 1968-1978, originated by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, 2004, was shown at five other locations in the US and Europe. An Additional exhibition – ANT FARM Radical Hardware – is now at Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University (opening: March 24). www.antfarm.org

The exhibition ANT FARM REDUX was held at The FRAC Centre, Orleans, France Oct. 11 – Dec. 23, 2007.

The exhibition ANT FARM: Radical Hardware opens at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, March 24 – May 7, 2008.

More information:

http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/Lord and http://antfarm.org