On July 4, 1975, at San Francisco's Cow Palace, ANT FARM presented what they termed the "ultimate media event." A reconstructed 1959 El Dorado Cadillac convertible ("Phantom Dream Car") was driven through a wall of burning TV sets.

"Media Burn" employs performance and spectacle in service of media critique, featuring the explosive collision of two of America's most potent cultural symbols: the automobile and television.

The spectacle of the Cadillac crashing through the burning TV sets became a visual manifesto of the early alternative video movement, an emblem of an oppositional and irreverent stance against the political and cultural imperatives promoted by television and the passivity of TV viewing.

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