ANTOINETTE LAFARGE
Associate Professor (MFA 1995 in Computer Art,
School of Visual Arts, New York), teaches courses in digital media and
has a particular interest in fictive realities, networked performance,
computer role-playing games and environments, web art, and typography.
In recent works such as The Roman Forum Project (2003), Virtual Live
(2002), The Roman Forum (2000), and Still Lies Quiet Truth (1998), she
has been working at the intersection of net-based improvisation in
multi-user worlds and meatspace performance.

Among her current projects is a collaborative multimedia performance
work, Reading Frankenstein, focusing on links between reading,
artificial life, and neurobiology; and QR, a multi-user game that
takes up water-use issues. In 2000, she co-curated the exhibition
"SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art" at UCI's Beall Center for Art
and Technology. She is the founder and artistic director of the
Plaintext Players, a pioneering online improvisational 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
promoting an appreciation of the aesthetics of forgery. Her critical
writing and fiction has appeared in several books, including
Benjamin's Blind Spot (2001), as well as in such publications as
Wired, Leonardo, and Gnosis. Recent papers include "25 Propositions on
the Art of Networlds" (Anthology of Art, 2002), "Marcel Duchamp and
the Museum of Forgery" (Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online
Journal, 2002), and "Stay and Play! Game Not Over" (presented at ISEA
2000). From 1995 to 1998 she served as Guest Editor of the annual
Digital Salon issue of Leonardo, the Journal of the International
Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

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