Associate Director of the UCI Game Culture and Technology Lab
Director of Academic Computing for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI.
Antoinette LaFarge has a particular interest in constructed realities, including computer-mediated performance, net-based improvisation, online role-playing games, avatar performance, playable media, nonlinear narrative, fictive art, and geofiction. Recent mixed-reality and intermedia performance works include Demotic (2004/2006), The Roman Forum Project (2003), Reading Frankenstein (2003), Virtual Live (2002), and The Roman Forum (2000). She has co-curated two groundbreaking exhibitions on computer games and art: "ALT+CTRL: A Festival of Independent and Alternative Games" (2003) and "SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art" (2000) at UCI's Beall Center for Art and Technology. She is the founder and artistic director of the Plaintext Players, a pioneering online Internet performance troupe that has appeared at numerous international venues, including the 1997 Venice Biennale and documenta X. She is also the founder and director of the Museum of Forgery, a virtual institution dedicated to opening up the cultural dialogue around forgery and related practices such as appropriation. She is associate editor of the anthology Searching for Sebald (forthcoming, 2007), and her critical writing and fiction have appeared in several books, including Benjamin's Blind Spot (2001). Recent publications include "Media Commedia" (Leonardo, 2005), "25 Propositions on the Art of Networlds" (Anthology of Art, 2002), and "Marcel Duchamp and the Museum of Forgery" (Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, 2002). From 1995 to 1998 she served as Guest Editor of the annual Digital Salon issue of Leonardo. As part of her research, she runs an experimental web server, yin.arts.uci.edu, and an experimental MOO (YinMOO).
email: alafarge (at) uci.edu
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SHORT CV
A full C.V. is available on request. Antoinette LaFarge
Associate Professor of Digital Media, Studio Art Department
Associate Director of the Game Culture and Technology Lab
Director of Academic Computing for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Dept. of Studio Art
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.
email: alafarge (at) uci.edu
SELECTED PROJECTS Playing the Rapture. East Coast performance premiere, Baltimore Theatre Project. 2008. Demotic. East Coast performance premiere, Baltimore Theatre Project. 2006. Galileo in America (work in progress). Staged readings at the Goethe Institute L.A. and the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades. 2004. Demotic. Workshop performance, 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.
ONGOING PROJECTS 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. YinMOO. Founding wizard (1999) of experimental MOO hosted by the Studio Art Deparment at UC Irvine.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS "All That Is Beyond Hearing: A Life of Arturo Ott" in Searching for Sebald (ICI Press) [2007]. "Lament of the Repubocracy": performance video in web publication Horizon Zero, Issue 13: Perform, Banff New Media Institute, 2004. "25 Thesen über die Kunst der Netzwelten," Die Anthologie der Kunst, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany, 2004. Translation of "25 Propositions on the Art of Networlds" [2002]. "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.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS "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].
TEACHING University of California, Irvine [1999- ]
Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Studio Art Department. School of Visual Arts, New York [1995-1999 ]
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 School of Visual Arts, M.F.A., Computer Art [1995]
M.F.A. class valedictorian.