Digital Aesthetics, a Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop, is back! The first event of the 25-26 year will feature artist-educator-activist Joseph LaDappe, who will present on “Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play.” Full abstract and Zoom link below for our online attendees. For our in-person guests — we’ll have dinner!

Abstract:

Can art be a catalyst for change in times of war and conflict? What role can creative acts of counter-memorialization, interventionist practices, play, and participatory art take to change how we perceive and act upon issues of contemporary and historical violence and in the broader politics of memory? Media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will share documentation from a diversity of creative projects and actions developed over the past several decades that utilize digital and analogue processes to creatively address such questions. A lineage of works, including video games, public actions (online and IRL), participatory making, performance, play, protest and memorialization will illuminate upon his critical and interrogative strategies engaging the intersections of art, technology, and social engagement.

Zoom link for online registration: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/h8WUhLdwTmKxRTI7bTohyg#/registration

More info here: https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/events/joseph-delappe-making-politics-commemoration-resistance-and-play

This event is co-sponsored by Silicon Valley Archives.