Chip Lord

Chip Lord is an 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. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres, often mixing the two, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media.   The exhibition, ANT FARM 1968-1978, originated by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, 2004, and was shown at five other locations in the US and Europe.   Additional exhibitions were at the FRAC Centre, Orleans, France (Oct. 11 – Dec. 22, 2007) and the Graduate Architecture School at Columbia University (March, 2008). Each exhibition produced a book monograph about Ant Farm.    The Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco, 1975 that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the Kennedy assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera., but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed.   Lectures by Chip Lord:   University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture, 2011 The Hammer Museum, “Conversations”, Los Angeles, July 2008. California College of Art, San Francisco, Dec. 2006 Ecole de Architecure de Lille, France, March ,2006 Yale Univ. School of Architecture, Sept. 2005 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, May, 2005 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, April, 2005 Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, March, 2005 School of Architecture, Universitie de Madrid, Spain, March, 2005 USC, Art Dept.   June, 2004 Pratt Institute,  New York , Sept. 2004 Univ. of Penn, School of Architecture, Sept. 2004 Leeds Film Festival, Leeds, UK,  Nov. 2004 Univ. of Westminister, Architecture School, London, UK,   Nov. 2004Caixa Forum, Barcelona,  Spain, Nov. 2003  keynote addres