Chip Lord was trained as an architect and was a founding member of Ant Farm. Ant Farm worked at the radical fringe of architecture, producing inflatable structures, performative events, and nomadic design. A ferro-cement weekend house in Texas (House of the Century, 1973) won a Progressive Architecture design citation. In 1974 they built Cadillac Ranch, a work that is both public art and entropic sculpture. They also produced the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame in 1975. Chip works with video and video installations, often collaborating with other artists, including Easy Living with Mickey McGowan (1984) and Motorist, a feature-length video that was selected for the 1989 Whitney Biennial. His three-channel video sculpture Picture Windows (with McGowan) was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is in the collection of ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe. In 2005, a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2011 he completed a public video-art piece for the Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX. He has produced a series of films about cities, including works made in Tokyo, Mexico City, Paris, San Francisco, and New York. New York Underwater is the latest work in this series, while Venice Underwater refers to both the aqua alta that Venice experiences periodically and the flood of tourists that seems to grow every year. The title also references the coming rise in sea levels.