On March 20, 2008, the fifth anniversary of the date of the U.S.'s latest invasion of Iraq, Joseph DeLappe will enact his ongoing protest and memorial art work within the DoD's online military recruiting and marketing video game, America's Army. Using the login name "dead-in-Iraq," DeLappe will enter the multiplayer game as a player and, forgoing fighting, use the game's features to memorialize US troops killed in Iraq.
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March 19, 2008
Artist Plays U.S Military's Marketing Video Game
Labels:
animation,
art,
Iraq War,
net art,
propaganda,
the surge,
video art,
virtual reality
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