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AVATAR
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Antoinette LaFarge
Born on the Internet in 1994 from a terminal in New York City
www.forger.com
PLAINTEXT PLAYERS
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Founder (1994) and resident director of this Internet performance group working in text-based virtual worlds and in collaboration with real-space performers.
Recent "Plaintext Players" projects include:
2002
"Virtual Live", meta-performance event incorporating live streaming green-screen video, virtual performance, and online discussion, intended as a preview of "Roman Forum 2" (a work in progress). Host: Location One (New York)
2000
"The Roman Forum", hybrid online-offline performance project focusing on the 2000 presidential campaign seen through the eyes of five Romans from around the time of the emperor Nero. Host: Side Street Live (Los Angeles)
1998
"Still Lies Quiet Truth", play adapted from "The Candide Campaign". Host: Collective Unconscious (New York)
1997
"Orpheus", Internet performance based on the Orpheus myth. Host: documenta X (Kassel, Germany) through Club Media
"Silent Orpheus", Internet performance presented for the International Day Without Art. Host: 55 Broad St. Video Wall (New York)
1996
"The Candide Campaign", Internet performances on a campaign theme. Host: Postmasters Gallery (New York)
1995
"Gutter City", Internet performances on a Civil War theme. Host: New York Digital Salon
"LittleHamlet", Internet performances based on "Hamlet". Host: Xavier Lopez Gallery (London)
1994
"Christmas", Internet performances featuring an archetypal trio. Hosts: Sandra Gering Gallery (New York) and the European Media Arts Festival
MUSEUM OF FORGERY
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Founder (1990) and director of this virtual institution dedicated to promoting the aesthetics of forgery. The Museum and its projects are featured in the book "Bataille's Eye & ICI Field Notes 4" (1997) and in a number of articles and interviews.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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"Marcel Duchamp and the Museum of Forgery", essay in "Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal", January 2002
"Commentary on the Manual of Lost Ideas", fiction in "Benjamin's Blind Spot", June 2001
"Stay and Play! Game Not Over!", paper presented at 2000 ISEA Conference, Paris; and again at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; under the auspices of the Medienforum Munich
"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 1999 College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles
"Did Anyone Bring a Word or an Ax?: Towards an Id Theater", paper presented at the 1997 College Art Association Conference as part of the panel "Cyberspace: Trojan Horse or Roman Holiday?"
"The Bearded Lady and the Shaven Man", essay in "Leonardo" 29: 5, 1996
"A World Exhilarating and Wrong", essay in "Leonardo" 28: 5, 1995
"Cylex", fiction in "Wired" 2.05, May 1994
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + FESTIVALS
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2002, "Reactions", Exit Art, New York
2001, "Out of Context", Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino/CA
"Milestones for Peace" project, Venice Biennale, Venice
1998, New York International Fringe Festival
New York Digital Salon
1997, documenta X, Kassel
Venice Biennale, Venice
1996, "Password Ferdydurke", Postmasters Gallery, New York
1995, New York Digital Salon
1994/1995, "Bioinformatica", Javier Lopez Gallery, London (1995); Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (1994)
1994, European Media Arts Festival, Germany
TEACHING
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Since 1999, University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Studio Art Department
1995-1999, School of Visual Arts, New York
Faculty member in the M.F.A. program in Computer Art and the M.F.A. program in Photography & Related Media
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