Joseph DeLappe
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ISEA2015
Joseph DeLappe works at the intersection of art, technology, social engagement, activism and interventionist strategies in order to explore geopolitical contexts. 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 in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transition MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. A San Francisco, USA, native, he is currently based at the University of Nevada, Reno.
ISEA2014
Joseph DeLappe, University of Nevada, US
ISEA2012
Joseph DeLappe is directing the Digital Media program at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
ISEA2011
Joseph DeLappe is a Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada (USA) where he directs the Digital Media program. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and abroad – including exhibitions and performances in Australia, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. 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 iraqimemorial.org project, an ongoing web based exhibition and open call for proposed memorials to the many thousand of civilian casualties from the war in Iraq. He has lectured throughout the world regarding his work, including most recently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, CBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and on The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio. His works have been featured in the New York Times, The Australian Morning Herald, Artweek, Art in American and in the 2010 book from Routledge entitled Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Game.
ISEA2009
An Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, USA, where he directs the Digital Media programme.
ISEA97
Joseph DeLappe, USA, is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno and the head of the Digital Media Studio in the Department of Art. DeLappe was the first MFA candidate in computer art to graduate from the CADRE Institute of San Jose State University (1990). His works in digital media, ranging from manipulated, experimental photographic portraiture to interactive, digitally controlled installations and electro-mechanical sculptures have been shown nationally, and internationally. Recent exhibitions include installations at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada. Past recipient of a Southeastern Regional National Endowment of the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship and a Nevada State Council on the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship. This past fall, he was a visiting artist at the Department of Photography of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
ISEA94
Media Artist and Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. He recently created a new facility and curriculum for the Digital Media Studio. DeLappe received his MFA Degree from the CADRE Institute of San Jose State University in 1990. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions both in the United States and abroad. He is a recipient of a Southern Arts Federation National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography in 1993.
SISEA 1990
Joseph DeLappe (USA), CADRE Institute, San Jose State University, USA.
