A group of radical architects who were also video, performance and installation artists - but above all, visionaries and cultural commentators - Ant Farm was founded by Chip Lord and Doug Michels in 1968 amidst the hot-house of San Francisco's counter-culture. Influenced by "alternative" architects like Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, and Superstudio, Ant Farm's early inflatable structures were suited to a nomadic, communal lifestyle, divergent from the mainstream Brutalist architecture of the 1960s. The group was also known for spectacular performance events like "Media Burn" (1975), for which Ant Farm member Curtis Schreier and Michels dressed up like astronauts and sped a customized Cadillac El Dorado through a pyramid of burning televisions. --ICA University of Pennsylvania