Joseph DeLappe, born San Francisco 1963, 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, projects in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the world. 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, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among many others. He is considered a pioneer in the realm of video games and performance art, developing such seminal works as “Howl: Elite Force Voyager”; “Quake/Friends”; and “dead-in-iraq”, all which involved various readings conducted within video game contexts online. He is as well one of the first artists to develop monumental scale low polygon sculptures using cardboard and corrugated plastic, notable projects include “The Cardboard Gandhi”, “The Drone Project: A Participatory Memorial”; and “Liberty Weeps”, among 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 Humanities 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. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts.