Chip Lord is an American media artist and Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz and residing in San Francisco.

Lord entered college five years earlier, choosing New Orleans's Tulane because he wanted to major in architecture, the result of a boyhood passion for exploring houses under construction.

[2] After the University of Houston, the pair moved back to the Bay Area where they set up their alternative practice in a warehouse space in Sausalito.

[citation needed] The purpose of the Ant Farm was to propose a restructuring of architecture education and become more involved with a community opposed to a very rigid traditional method.

The group was a self-described "art agency that promotes ideas that have no commercial potential, but which we think are important vehicles of cultural introspection."

This videotape, filmed at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, developed out of the groups' dynamic that shared an interest in executing the "forbidden idea".

[citation needed] "The post-Ant Farm period was a difficult transition for me because of the loss of the support structure that the group provided, both creatively and financially, but this eventually led me to teaching.

Dissatisfied with the town, Lord left San Diego and decided to try out a teaching position at University of California, Santa Cruz for a year.

[6] Once the Film and Digital Media department was established at Santa Cruz, Lord began teaching various studio and theory classes in the medium.

[citation needed] In teaching found footage, Lord screens numerous examples of the medium from his own personal work to that of Bruce Conner.

Another project requires students to use found footage to create a central theme such as time (and temporality), art that helps the economy, intervention on the status quo, desire, and darkness.

Lord demonstrates interest in how different forms of representational media work function, especially still photographs made on film negatives and video, and he intentionally contrast them in his projects.