Sep
16th
16th
An excerpt from Media Burn by Ant Farm.
In 1975 Ant Farm sent a 1959 Cadillac through a wall of flaming TV sets in «Media Burn», a deconstruction/demolition of the media spectacle par excellence. Using the car once again as a cultural icon, transformed into a type of earth-bound spaceship, «Media Burn» critiqued American ideals of heroics and technological superiority, and offered an affront to the television media who were invited to cover the event.
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