Media Burn by Ant Farm (excerpt 2)

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Excerpt from Ant Farm's classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a "media circus" assembles at San Francisco's Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. To view the entire piece, go to http://mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=4574

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Uploaded: February 15th, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
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