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Upgrade! Boston is a monthly gathering of artists, curators and the public that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration within the new media community. Each meeting consists of one or two hour-long presentations interspersed with questions and comments from the audience. Theme-based panel discussions are organized once or twice a year. The events are informal, free, and . Founded by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in January 2005, Upgrade! Boston continues to grow as a local node within the global Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net) network, which currently consists of 34 nodes world-wide.

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  • Digital Art and Activism of Joseph DeLappe

    Mon, Mar 15, 2010
    Digital media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe discusses his work at the Museum of Modern Art. DeLappe has worked in new media since 1983, and in online, computer-game-based interventionist performance art since 2001. His recent projects include dead-in-iraq (2007), wherein he enters the name of each American military casualty from the war in Iraq into the popular U.S. government--funded "America's Army" computer game; and The Salt Satyagraha Online: Gandhi's March to Dandi in Second Life (2008), for which he created a "mixed-reality" durational performance utilizing a converted exercise treadmill to reenact Mahatma Gandhi's 1930 Salt March. DeLappe discusses his continuing projects at the intersection of art and activism. Special thanks to the Museum of Modern Art for providing this recording.
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