For a decade, beginning in 1968, the partners in Ant Farm explored the experimental fringe in architecture, design, and the media arts. During the group's most productive period, from 1973 to 1977, they created Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas; designed and built The House of The Century, near Angleton, Texas; produced the performance video works Media Burn and The Eternal Frame; buried The Citizen's Time Capsule in Lewiston, New York; and designed a series of visionary architecural projects. The personnel had dispersed by 1978 when a fire destroyed their studio in San Francisco signaling the end of Ant Farm as a functioning creative collaboration.
Read more about Ant Farm in Architecture today, by Charles Jencks & William Chaitkin, published by Abrahms. NY 1982.

Chip Lord (born 1944 Cleveland) holds a M.Arch from Tulane University. He is a media artist who works with video and photography. He is a Professor in the Film & Digital Media department at U.C. Santa Cruz. He owned a 1956 Cadillac Sedan de Ville (in 1974) and a 1963 Cadillac convertible (in 1970). lord@ucsc.edu

Doug Michels (1943-2003) was a graduate of Yale University School of Architecture and co-founded Ant Farm in 1968. He won three Progressive Architecture design awards, and his work has been published extensively. He owned a 1973 Cadillac Eldorado (in 1981).

Hudsen B. Marquez (born 1947 in New Orleans Louisiana). Studied art at Newcomb College, Art Students' League and Bennington College. Member ANT FARM, Co-creator of CADILLAC RANCH and co-founder TVTV. Currently living and painting in Los Angeles California. He owned a 1963 Cadillac convertible (in 1970). gitslim@aol.com. 

S.T.P. 1987 In 1985 restuarant owner Peter Morton commissioned Ant Farm to create a sculpture for his new Hard Rock Cafe in Houston Texas. Since they no longer worked together as Ant Farm, the three artists designated their collaboration Not Ant Farm, and proceeded to design the optimistic sculpture STP (Save the Planets). The car is a 1963 Ford Thunderbird atop a gold trilon containing consumer petroleum products. Still in place on Kirby St in Houston.

20th Anniversary From left to right: Hudson Marquez, Stanley Marsh 3, Chip Lord and Doug Michels at the 20th anniversary party for Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, June 21, 1994. 200 people showed up to celebrate the durable reputation of Cadillac Ranch in a dusty field beside Interstate 40. Chip Lord produced a video document of the event titled Cadillac Ranch 1974/1994. Click on the picture to download a full size photo.