Beth Federici and Laura Harrison's Space, Land, and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm delves into the work of that renegade '70s collective. Radical architects, video pioneers (Media Burn, Eternal Frame), and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers (Chip Lord in person) built a body of subversive work that questions the status quo, mashing up Bucky Fuller and NASA with trashy backyard Americana. Chip kicks in with his own piece in this book-launch of UC Press' Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the SF Bay Area. Opening the program is Archimedia's (David Cox and Molly Hankwitz) half-hr. lecture-demo Playfields, Mindmaps and Screen Culture, on the increasingly aggressive use of screen displays and data-mining to depict, and control, the idea of self and the city. SPECIAL TREATS: Come early for Carl Diehl's Polterzeitgeist, and during intermission, David Sherman--in from Arizona for the anthology's release--debuts his video installation An Outdoor Cinema in West Texas.
