MFA Fine Arts presents artist Joseph DeLappe, who will discuss a lineage of his works from the past 30 years which describe his embrace of creative political activism in his research practice.

DeLappe is a professor of games and tactical media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown extensively throughout the world. DeLappe works at the intersection of art, technology, social engagement/activism and interventionist strategies exploring our geo-political contexts. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transition MX, Mexico City, among others. His creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media.

In 2006 he began the project "dead‐in‐iraq," to type consecutively all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first person shooter online recruiting game. He also directs the iraquimemorial.org project, an ongoing web-based exhiibtion and open call for proposed memorials to the many thousands of civilian casualties from the war in Iraq. More recently, in 2013, he rode a specially equipped bicycle to draw a 460 mile-long chalk line around the Nellis Air Force Range to surround an area that would be large enough to create a solar farm that could power the entire United States. He also recently collaborated with the Biome Collection to develop the computer game Killbox, a two-person shooter which explores the complexities and consequences of drone warfare.

Talk

Joseph DeLappe

Room 101C