Joseph DeLappe is a 2008 Commissioned Resident Artist at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. He is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he runs the Digital Media area. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, electromechanical installation and real-time web-based video transmission have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. In 2006 he enacted a project dead-in-iraq , to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army FPS online recruiting game. In 2007, he launched Iraqimemorial.org ( http://www.iraqimemorial.org ) a web based exhibition of and ongoing call for memorial proposals to the many thousands of civilian casualties in the War in Iraq. In 2008, he created a new work, Reenactment: The Salt Satyagraha Online using a specially customized treadmill to walk the entire 240 miles in 26 days to control his avatar, MGandhi, as he journeys throughout Second Life.
His work was recently featured in the exhibition Gameworld at the Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijon, Spain and published in the recently released books, Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames , publisher Johan & Levi and Videogames and Art , publisher Intellect Books, in TDR, The Drama Review , published by the MIT Press and in Swan Quake: The User Manual , published by Liquid Press/iDAT.
Selected exhibitions, screenings and/or presentations include: Eyebeam Art and Technology, New York, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytonna Beach, Florida; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Camerawork, Sheffield 03, UK, Refusalon/Culturelounge, San Francisco; Fotofeis, Scotland; Artist's Space, Sydney, Australia; the Nevada Museum of Art and ISEA 2002 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Nagoya, Japan. Past recipient of a Southeastern Regional National Endowment of the Arts Visual Artist's Fellowship and two Nevada State Council on the Arts Individual Artist's Fellowships, the most recent in 1999. He has performed live in France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. He has been an Artist in Residence at the Banff New Media Institute and at ISIS Arts, Newcastle, UK.
His works have been written about and/or he was interviewed in the following media contexts: Wired.com , Salon.com , The New York Times , CNN domestic and international, NPR (National Public Radio), CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company), and The Sydney Morning Herald . He is a native of San Francisco and has resided in Reno, with his wife and twin daughters since 1993.
