Antoinette LaFarge on “Demotic”,
Tuesday, November 7 @ 7pm

Artist-writer Antoinette LaFarge will talk about DEMOTIC, a performance work presented at the Baltimore Theater Project on Nov 2-5. Demotic was conceived by LaFarge, directed by Robert Allen and features sound artists Maria de los Angeles Esteves and Jeff Ridenour and actor Tracey A. Leigh.

DEMOTIC begins with the idea that the Internet is now so central to American life that it has become our new town hall, an ever-changing space of informed debate, passionate opinion, and misinformation. Like the Internet, Demotic is a rolling improvisation among the different kinds of performers using such technologies as text-to-speech synthesis, chatroom-type forums, and sound mashups. One of the central controlling devices of Demotic is a virtual world hosted on the West Coast whose avatars direct the progress of the piece at various points.