Antoinette LaFarge home | about | projects 2000-present | writing | events | books | design | games | teaching | info | blog PROJECTS 1990-1999 This archive focuses on my multi-year performance projects, curatorial projects, and web works from the 1990s. Many earlier projects have not yet made it onto the web.

Still Lies Quiet Truth 1998 was a performance work whose script was derived from the live avatar-based cyberformances of "The Candid Campaign." Show projections featured glimpses of an online virtual world. It premiered at the New York Digital Salon and was re-presented at the New York International Fringe Festival.

Without 1997 was a piece of net art commissioned by Creative Time (NY) for the Day Without Art (Dec. 1, now better known as International AIDS Day). It was a deliberate parody of banner ads, which were then just becoming ubiquitous.

Silent Orpheus 1997 was a Plaintext Players cyberperformance based on the Orpheus myth, presented for the International Day Without Art at the 55 Broad St. Video Wall, New York, Dec. 1, 1997.

Orpheus: I Am the Music 1997 was a cyberperformance based on the Orpheus myth. Presented at documenta X (Kassel, Germany) through Club Media, July 1997.

The White Whale 1997 was a series of cyberperformances presented at the Venice Biennale, Italy, through Club Media, June 1997.

blast5drama 1996-97 was a collective publication and net art project initiated by the X-Art Foundation under the direction of Jordan Crandall.

The Candide Campaign 1996 was a series of cyberperformances presented at Postmasters Gallery, New York, as part of the "Password Ferdydurke" exhibition. Oct.-Nov. 1996

The Cake of the Desert 1996 was a short radio play from the "Christmas" series of cyberformances that premiered on PseudoRadio's "Art Dirt" show, simulcast over the web, August 1996. Also presented as part of "a low place presents" salon series, New York, August 1996. (There is also a graphic novel version of this project.)

Gutter City 1995 was a series of cyberperformances that took place as part of the New York Digital Salon, Nov. 1995.

LittleHamlet 1995 was a series of cyberperformances as part of the "Blast 4: Bioinformatica" show at the Xavier Lopez Gallery, London. Sept.-Oct. 1995.

I Object 1995 is a collection of 13 text-art works derived from a performance in the "Christmas" series.

Christmas 1994-95 was a series of cyberperformances as part of the "Blast 4: Bioinformatica" show at the Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, March-Dec. 1994. A special extra performance in this series was presented at the European Media Arts Festival, Sept. 1995.

The Plaintext Players (founded 1994) is a pioneering group of cyberperformers who have been creating live online improvisations since the inception of the web. As the group's founder and artistic director, I direct many of their unique performances, which generally take the form of textual improvisations based on written scenarios. One of the longest-running groups of cyberperformers, the Players have recently been involved in creating mixed-reality works that merge cyberspace and realspace in various ways.

The Museum of Forgery (founded 1991) is a virtual institute dedicated to promoting an appreciation of the aesthetics of forgery. A number of the ideas promulgated by the Museum--such as conceptual Photoshop filters or dumping grounds for old art--have since been taken up and implemented by other artists. I am the museum's founder and director.