Joseph DeLappe is the Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, where he relocated early in 2017 after 23 years directing the Digital Media program at the University of Nevada, Reno. DeLappe's artwork engages the intersections of art, technology, social engagement/activism and interventionist strategies exploring geo-political contexts. His work in online gaming performance, sculpture, and electromechanical installation have been exhibited across the globe. His most familiar work is a performative and memorializing intervention into the US Army video game recruitment website, "America's Army."He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, CBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Air America Radio, and his works have been featured in the New York Times, The Australian Morning Herald, Artweek, Art in America and in the 2010 book from Routledge entitled Joystick Soldiers The Politics of Play in Military Video Games, among many others. DeLappe's talk, "Resistance, Play, and Memory," takes place in Konover Auditorium, Tuesday, April 4th at 5:30 pm.
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