Chip Lord (Cleveland, Ohio, 1944) was the co-founder with Doug Michels of the group Ant Farm in 1968.  For ten years Ant Farm worked the radical fringe of architectural practice, in the process they became video and performance artists. When Ant Farm dis-banded in 1978, Lord continued as a video artist producing works for single channel and installation. Currently, he is producing a series of films about cities and climate change and to date has produced Venice Underwater, New York Underwater, and Miami Beach Elegy. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou Center (Paris), SFMOMA (San Francisco), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), the Tate Modern (London) and other museums. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz and lives in San Francisco.

Last update, 14 March 2017

For twenty five years, Steve Seid (Brooklyn, NY, 1948) was a Film and Video Curator at the Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley. He organized over 1,000 programs of video art, film, and new media for the PFA’s public programs. He has taught video aesthetics and history courses at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the California College of Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Following on the preservation of videotapes from the National Center for Experiments in Television (1967-1975), Seid curated Videospace (2000), a gallery exhibition dedicated to the first TV Lab. He co-curated the first museum retrospective of Ant Farm, the ‘60s/’70s art collective and creators of Cadillac Ranch and Media Burn, which toured internationally. Radical Light, a fifty year history of moving image art from the San Francisco Bay Area, made its appearance in 2010 as both a co-edited book (UCPress) and a film/video exhibition that travelled throughout the U.S. In 2013, Seid worked with the Menil Museum to co-curate Silence, a gallery exhibition honoring John Cage’s 100th birthday. Soon to be released will be the restoration of Steven Arnold’s gender-defying Luminous Procuress, a 1971 feature-length film starring the Cockettes. He currently lives and works in Berkeley, California.

21 April 2017