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  Media Burn by Ant Farm, 2003 edit

  1975-7-4 / Ant Farm, Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Performance, Roots of Video, Viewers Choice

  A recent edit (2003) of Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. Continue reading →

• [Media Burn outtakes]

  1975-7-4 / Uncategorized

  This tape contains little footage that is not in the final cut. The only added material is more news coverage and an interview with a Channel 2 cameraman. Continue reading →

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  Media Burn by Ant Farm, 1975 edit

  1975-7-4 / Ant Farm, Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Performance, Roots of Video, Viewers Choice

  Original version of Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. Continue reading →

• Media Burn

  1975-7-4 / Uncategorized

  Excerpt from a video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. Under the credits there is video of the burning television sets and participants throwing TV’s at the fire. Continue reading →