Event overview
Joseph DeLappe is an American artist, activist and Prof of Tactical Media at Abertay Uni. His work in online gaming, sculpture and installation has been shown across the world.
Born in San Francisco, Prof Joseph is an artist, activist and educator. He relocated to Scotland from the USA in 2017, where he is the Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University, Dundee.
Working with electronic and digital media since 1983, his projects in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation are internationally renowned.
He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China, the Southern Utah Museum of Art and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among many others.
Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media, including the New York Times, The Australian Morning Herald, Art in America, The Guardian and the BBC.
He has authored several book chapters, including “Me and My Predator(s): Tactical Remembrance and Critical Atonement, Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology, Open Humanties Press, 2022; “Making Politics: Engaged Social Tactics, A conversation between Joseph DeLappe and Dr. Laura Leuzzi”, Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, Routledge, 2022; and co-edited with Leuzzi, the book “INCITE: Digital Art and Activism”, 2023, Peacock Visual Arts.
His work engages issues of memory, politics, history, physicality and the virtual, questioning contemporary technologies and artistic practice.
Dates & times
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| 18 Nov 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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