Antoinette LaFarge: Events

EVENTS
Here are listed a selection of public events I have taken part in, such as exhibitions, festivals, and artist's talks. Although exhibitions are not the focus of my practice -- which has become largely performance-oriented and often virtual) -- my work has been exhibited internationally in art galleries, museums, and festivals. (My curatorial work is listed under the "games" area.)

"Demotic" November 2006 Invited talk at Location One Gallery, New York.

PERFORM.MEDIA September 2006 Artist's presentation on "Demotic" at this "transdisciplinary festival and symposium of creativity, research, and technoculture" at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. Co-presentor: Robert Allen.

"Demotic" March 2006 Invited talk at UCLA as part of the DARNET Information Exchange

"Flesh + Chips" August 2005 Invited talk, with artist Gail Wright, in conjunction with the exhibition "Brides of Frankenstein," San Jose Museum of Art.

"ALT+CTRL: Rethinking Computer Games" January 2005 Invited lecture at UCLA Design | Media Arts Program in the "Games People Play" lecture series.

Anthologie der Kunst November 2004 Invitational exhibition, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany.

Arts Congress L.A. August 2004 Panelist for "Digital Media and Performing Arts" panel of the Arts Congress of the L.A. County Summer Arts Internship Program

"Media Commedia" March 2004 Invited talk at the Center for Art and Technology, Northwestern University, Chicago [March].

SEAMUS 2004 I wrote the text for composer Mark Zaki's sound composition "Everything We Say Is Deformed", which was presented at the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the U.S. in March and at the Florida Electronic Music Festival in April. (This text was originally written for Reading Frankenstein in 2003.)

The AIDS Chronicles 2003 Exhibition of "The AIDS Chronicles," a project of the Los-Angeles-based Institute of Cultural Inquiry to draw attention to the nature of AIDS reporting in the New York Times. I was one of the main organizers of this show at the Sam Francis Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), celebrating the project's tenth anniversary.
More on the 2003 "AIDS Chronicles."
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry's web page about the "AIDS Chronicles."

Conversations 2003 Invitational show at Sam Francis Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), highlighting pairs of artists with a shared history of conversations about their work.
More on "Conversations."

CAA February 2004 Co-chair (with Lise Patt) of the "Fictive Art" panel, College Art Association Conference.

"Improvisation and Globalization" Fall 2002 Resident Fellow in this research group at the Humanities Research Institute, UC-Irvine; conveners: George Lewis, Adriene Jenik, and Susan Leigh Foster.

Faculty Show Oct.-Nov. 2002 University of California, Irvine, Studio Art faculty exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology and the University Gallery.

Reactions 2001-02 Group exhibition in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Venues: Exit Art (New York, Jan.-Mar. 2001); The Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, August 2001). "Reactions" has been acquired by the Library of Congress for its permanent collection, with selections featured in the LOC exhibition "Witness and Response" (Washington, D.C., Sept.-Oct. 2002).
Full poster.

Out of Context 2001 Group exhibition, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino.

Milestones for Peace 2001 International traveling group show whose venues have included the 2001 Venice Biennale (Italy) as well as sites in Tel Aviv (Israel) and New York City. "Milestones for Peace" is scheduled for permanent exhibition in the future Rabin Peace Center, Tel Aviv (now under construction). All works commissioned for this invitational show were based on a truncated tetrahedron of pink dolomite; my entry, "Paper Scissors Rock," shows how the rock would look if its surface could be unfolded.

Global Brain--Bonner Wissenchaftsnacht June 2000 Festival in Bonn, Germany, for which I directed an Internet performance sponsored by Friedrich Wilhelms Universität.

ISEA 2000 Panelist for session "Don't Tell Me How It Ends", International Society for Electronic Arts Conference, Paris.

CAA 2000 Panelist for session "The WWW and the New Art Marketplace," College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles

New York Digital Salon 1998 Group exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York.

New York International Fringe Festival 1998 Performance festival held at various venues on the Lower East Side, New York.

Mainz Intermediale 1998 I was an Internet performer in Marlena Corcoran's Gallbladder Sonata for this festival.

documenta X 1997 Invitational exhibition in Kassel, Germany, for which I directed Internet performances ("Orpheus") through Club Media.

Venice Biennale 1997 Invitational exhibition in Venice, Italy, for which I directed Internet performances ("The White Whale") through Club Media.

Video Wall, 55 Broad St. 1997 I was invited to direct an Internet performance ("Silent Orpheus") for the International Day Without Art

blast5drama 1996 Group exhibition at Sandra Gering Gallery, New York.

Password Ferdydurke 1996 Group exhibition at Postmasters Gallery, New York.

Art Dirt 1996 New York-based web radio show on which I broadcast a radio play, with follow-up interview.

New York Digital Salon 1995 Group exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York.

Energy 1995 Group exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York.

Who's Got the Body? 1995 Web exhibition hosted by the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Blast 4: Bioinformatica 1995 Group exhibition, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, and Xavier Lopez Gallery, London.

The Senses We Have No Name For 1995 Group exhibition, SVA West Side Gallery, New York.

European Media Arts Festival 1994 Group exhibition, Germany.

The Chamber of Heroes 1990 Two-person exhibition, L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles.

Small Works 1989 Group exhibition, SITE Gallery, Los Angeles.

Recent Works 1988 Solo exhibition, Alligator Gallery, San Francisco.

New Painting 1988 Group exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco.

The Really Big Fish 1988 Colllaborative exhibition with poet Joan Boisclair, Alligator Gallery, San Francisco.