Conversation with Artist Antoinette LaFarge September 13, 2009

Antoinette LaFarge, based in Long Beach, questions the mode of fiction through performance, digital media, games, and writing. In this way, LaFarge looks at World of Warcraft and other role-playing games as one way of constructing a fictional narrative.

LaFarge is the Associate Professor of Digital Media, Studio Art Department, UC Irvine; Associate Director of the UCI Game Culture and Technology Lab; Director of Academic Computing for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI. She 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.

LaFarge's World of World: The Adventures of Malbec and Player (2009) is on display in Laguna Art Museum's current exhibition WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon.

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