EVENT: JOSEPH DELAPPE'S PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT! (MARCH 27 2019, MILAN, ITALY)
GAME TALK #3: JOSEPH DELAPPE
PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!
MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan Italy
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 27, media artist and professor Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical 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, such as 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 through this popular videogame.
Admission is free. Click here to register.
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.