On March 27 2019 between 18:00 and 19:00, Joseph Delappe will give a lecture in the ongoing GAME TALKS series at IULM University
JOSEPH DELAPPE
PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!
March 27 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1 20143 Milan
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Curated by the Master of Arts in Game Design at IULM University, GAME TALKS consist of lectures, presentations, and performances celebrating the culture, art, and creativity of video games. Situated at the intersection between game design, Game Art, and game studies, GAME TALKS are meant to stimulate, inspire, and surprise.
All events are free and open to the public, but RSVP required
PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions that function at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geo-political contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions. These will include the 2006 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. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized thru this hyper popular game title.
Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.
POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!
LINGUA: INGLESE
In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe descriverà un insieme di progetti e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra il videogioco, il nesso arte/tecnologia e le strategie di intervento in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe propone un approccio alla teoria del videogioco online come un nuova categoria di spazio pubblico, all'interno della quale ha condotto negli ultimi quindici anni performance e interventi. Tra queste, dead-in-iraq (2006), nel quale ha digitato consecutivamente tutti i nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel gioco di reclutamento online America’s Army. Più recente è Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), un mod del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.
Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.