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absurdist interactions. LaFarge served as the "Digital.Director" of many of these performances, directing them in real time. The first series, "Christmas" (1994–95), was followed by several others, including "LittleHamlet" (1995), "Gutter City" (1995), "The
Candide Campaign" (1996), forming one of the most extensive oeuvres of early cyberspace performance.
209:. Both were produced by the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine. In her show catalog essay "WinSide Out", LaFarge traces how the historical links between art and games have become strengthened in the computer era by various forces that promoted "a culture of involvement on the part of players."
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or "netprovs" viewable by both online audiences and visitors in real spaces, where the performances were viewed as projections. These improvisatory works were a kind of "virtual vaudeville" in which boundaries between performers and viewers were fluid and unstable, allowing for highly kinetic and
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spun off two related video installations that continued the original work's theme of conscious reflection on a game world in which two gamers are beta-testing a game about the
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The Fictive and the Sublime." Visual Communication Quarterly 16.4 (2009): 210-241.
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ALT+CTRL: A Festival of Independent and Alternative Games
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