March 20: Dead-in-iraq: Performance by Joseph DeLappe
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Location: Eyebeam
540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY 10011
www.eyebeam.org
Cost: Free
Eyebeam artist Joseph DeLappe will enact his ongoing protest and memorial work set within the U.S. Defense Department’s online military recruiting and marketing video game, America’s Army. Using the login name “dead-in-Iraq”, DeLappe enters the multiplayer game as a player and, forgoing fighting, uses the game’s features to memorialize US military members killed in Iraq.
Live performance followed by discussion with Joseph DeLappe and Mark Tribe.
The Iraqimemorial.org project site features a growing online exhibition of artist proposals in media ranging from traditional sculptural monuments and installations to experimental works utilizing performance, digital technologies and sound.
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I attended the talk. It was very powerful and super interesting. I think it’s a very strong piece. If we have time on Tuesday I’ll tell you a bit about it.
Feel free to post events on the blog too, it’s a great way to expand the horizons of the class.
Hope you’re all enjoying the break (and by the low volume of posts it seems you are). See you all on Tuesday.
i read about this last semester when i wrote a propaganda paper on America’s Army. i think its a really interesting way to get through to gamers and get them to think a little more serious about whats going on.