Antoinette LaFarge's research interests include networked performance; mixed-reality performance; hypermedia; role-playing environments; computer games; digital typography; collaborative and performative writing; and fictive art. Recent intermedia and mixed-reality performance works include Demotic (2004), The Roman Forum Project (2003), and Reading Frankenstein (2003). She has co-curated two groundbreaking exhibitions related to computer games: the 2004 ALT+CTRL, a festival of alternative and independent games, and the 2000 SHIFT-CTRL, an exhibition on computer games and art, both at UCI's Beall Center for Art and Technology. She is the founder of the Plaintext Players, an Internet performance group, and the director of the virtual Museum of Forgery. As part of her research, she runs an experimental web server, yin.arts.uci.edu, and an experimental MOO (YinMOO). She is Associate Professor of Digital Media at the University of California, Irvine, in the Studio Art Department. Her contact information can be found in the online UCI Directory (www.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phonebook).
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SHORT CV
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Antoinette LaFarge
Galileo in America (work in progress). Staged readings at the Goethe Institute L.A. and the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades. 2004.
Demotic. Performance premiere, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine. 2004.
ALT+CTRL: A Festival of Independent and Alternative Games. Curated exhibition, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine. 2004.
The Roman Forum Project. Performance premiere, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine. 2003.
Reading Frankenstein. Performance premiere, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine. 2003.
Virtual Live. Performance, Location One gallery, New York. 2002.
SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art. Curated exhibition, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine. 2004.
Still Lies Quiet Truth. Performance premiere. New York International Fringe Festival. Presented again at the New York Digital Salon. 1998.
Orpheus. Performances, presented at Documenta X (Kassel, Germany) through Club Media. 1997.
Silent Orpheus. Performances for the International Day Without Art, the 55 Broad St. Video Wall (New York). 1997.
The White Whale. Performances, presented at the Venice Biennale (Italy) through Club Media. 1997.
The Candide Campaign. Performance, Postmasters Gallery, New York. 1996.
YinMOO. Founding wizard (1999) of experimental MOO hosted by the Studio Art Deparment at UC Irvine.
The Plaintext Players. Founder (1994) and Digital.Director of this Internet performance group.
The Museum of Forgery. Founder (1990) and director of this virtual institution dedicated to promoting the aesthetics of forgery.
"Anthologie der Kunst" (Anthology of Art), Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany [Nov.2004]. Invitational exhibition.
"Conversations," Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [Sept. 2003]. Invitational exhibition.
"The AIDS Chronicles," Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [Nov. 2003].
"Reactions," Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA [2002]; Exit Art, NY [2001]; acquired by the Library of Congress for its permanent collection [2002].
"Out of Context", Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA [2001].
"Milestones for Peace", Domschatzkammer, Aachen, Germany [Dec. 2001-Feb. 2002]; Venice Biennale, Italy [2001]; New York City [2001]; scheduled for permanent exhibition in the future Rabin Peace Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
"Password Ferdydurke", Postmasters Gallery, New York [1996].
"blast5drama," Sandra Gering Gallery, New York [1996].
"The Senses We Have No Names For," SVA West Side Gallery, New York [1995].
"Who's Got the Body?", School of Visual Arts web exhibition [1995].
New York Digital Salon [1995].
"Energy," Visual Arts Gallery, New York [1995].
"Bioinformatica," Javier Lopez Gallery, London [1995]; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York [1994].
European Media Arts Festival, Germany [1994].
"25 Thesen ˆºber die Kunst der Netzwelten," Die Anthologie der Kunst, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany, 2004. Translation of "25 Propositions on the Art of Networlds" [2002].
"Lament of the Repubocracy": performance video in web publication Horizon Zero, Issue 13: Perform, Banff New Media Institute, 2004.
"SHIFT-CTRL": article on SHIFT-CTRL exhibition co-authored with Robert Nideffer, Leonardo 35:1, 2002.
"25 Propositions on the Art of Networlds ": invited contribution to The Anthology of Art, ed. Jochen Gerz, publ. on the web by Braunschweig School of Art, 2002.
"Marcel Duchamp and the Museum of Forgery": essay in Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, vol. 2, #4, 2002.
"Stay and Play! Game Not Over!": paper presented at ISEA Conference, Paris; and again at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich under the auspices the Medienforum Munich, 2000.
"WinSide Out": web catalog essay for the exhibition "SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art," Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC-Irvine, 2000.
"The Memetic Museum": paper presented at the College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, 1999.
"Did Anyone Bring a Word or an Ax?: Towards an Id Theater": paper presented at the College Art Association Conference as part of the panel "Cyberspace: Trojan Horse or Roman Holiday?" 1997.
The Bearded Lady and the Shaven Man": article, Leonardo 29:5, 1996. Also published in Leonardo On-Line as part of the "Women, Art and Technology" project.
"A World Exhilarating and Wrong": article, Leonardo 28:5, 1995.
Cylex": fiction, Wired 2.05, 1994.
University of California, Irvine [1999’Äì ]
School of Visual Arts, New York [1995’Äì1999 ]
School of Visual Arts, M.F.A., Computer Art [1995]
Associate Professor of Digital Media
Dept. of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.
Phone/email contact information can be found in the online UCI Directory (www.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phonebook).
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TEACHING
Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Studio Art Department.
Faculty member in the M.F.A. and B.F.A. programs in Computer Art and the M.F.A. program in Photography & Related Media.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. class valedictorian.