Week 10 – Artist – Joseph DeLappe & Micol Hebron

Joseph DeLappe is the professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. His work has been focusing on electronic and new media since 1983. His works also includes a variety of online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout in the United States and abroad - including exhibition and performances in Australia, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, Peru, Sweden and Canada. 

Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes studio work, curating, writing, social media, crowd-sourcing, teaching, public-speaking, and both individual and collaborative project. She was also an Art professor at Chapman University. She employs strategies of consciousness-raising, collaboration, generosity, play, and participation to support and further feminist dialogues in art and life.

The media of Joseph included drawing, painting, animated gift, imaging, digital composite, sculpture, installation, game art. The media of Hebron included painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, photographic work.

The media Joseph used that most impressed me was the imaging, which gives a mysterious messages through the image for people to deeply think about it. The media that Hebron used was mostly imaging, but I found interesting that how she used her naked body to transfer the messages to the audience, I do think her series of images were really appealing and feminist.

The media that Joseph hadn't previously thought of as " art media" was the internet art and the game art, as I previously thought that those internet art that they used was for marketing and advertising. However, when I have a look at one of the internet art and performance of DeLappe, there were a work called NoneofTheseCandidates Macbain! Avatar for U.S Senate! I just have discovered that the internet art can be used as media for election.  As for Hebron, the performance she describe was somehow arbitrage that I previously thought there wasn't any message in it. 

There were really not much similarity between DeLappe and Hebron's works, I can see the media DeLappe used was mostly sculpture and installation and performance, while Hebron's media was mostly imaging. DeLappe's messages were about politics, liberty of the country, or the election. For example, his sculpture called Liberty Weeps carried a message of "truth, justice and liberty" in these United States. While Hebron's imaging covers a series of her naked body performance in the exhibition illustrate the messages of feminist. 

Some of the medias have not used may be compelling in their works could be included zines, clay, videos and or Graffiti writer.