Rental fee: $12Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $8Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications. To purchase Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image, click the book cover to the right. In celebration of former BAMPFA video curator Steve Seid’s new book,&nbsp;Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image, we present a screening of the re-edit of the video work&nbsp;Media Burn&nbsp;(1975–2003), along with an illustrated lecture about the little-known backstory of Ant Farm’s legendary 1975 conceptual performance of the same name in which a customized 1959 Cadillac, dubbed the Phantom Dream Car, collided with a pyramid of blazing TV sets. Devised, revised, and relocated over several years,&nbsp;Media Burn&nbsp;was finally staged in San Francisco’s Cow Palace parking lot. A critique of the viral image, years before social media manufactured its manic multiples, this surprisingly complex undertaking required mythopoetic stand-ins for very American preoccupations—here, the dream of mobility embodied by the automobile is in conflict with the dream of immobility, the televised world delivered to the stationary viewer. From the imagistic energy generated by this incendiary collision, Ant Farm, a San Francisco–based art collective, would compose a singular image to set loose upon the unwitting world. Media BurnAnt FarmUnited States, 1975–200323 minsColorDigital streaming&nbsp;Source: BAMPFA Untitled (Phantom&nbsp;Dream&nbsp;Car Goes to Berkeley)Jane AaronUnited States, 19792 minsColorDigital streaming Illustrated Lecture by Steve Seid35 minsDigital streaming

Media Burn

To celebrate former BAMPFA video curator Steve Seid’s new book, MEDIA BURN: ANT FARM AND THE MAKING OF AN IMAGE, we present MEDIA BURN, the video work, and an illustrated lecture about the little-known backstory of Ant Farm’s legendary 1975 conceptual performance.

Untitled (Phantom Dream Car Goes to Berkeley)

Illustrated Lecture by Steve Seid

A live conversation recorded on April 1 with media curator and writer Steve Seid, author of&nbsp;Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image, and John Rogers, a former member of Optic Nerve video collective who continues his moving image artistry as a partner in the local production company Ideas in Motion. They are joined by Tom Weinberg, founder of the Chicago-based archive Media Burn, and artist Diane Andrews Hall, a member of the 1970s performance collective T.R.Uthco.

Media Burn Livestream Conversation

A live conversation recorded on April 1 with Steve Seid, John Rogers, Tom Weinberg, and Diane Andrews Hall.

Media Burn and Illustrated Lecture by Steve Seid

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