Week 8 — Artist — Joseph DeLappe & Micol Hebron
Artist: Micol Hebron and Joseph DeLappe
Media: Studio work, curating, blogging, social media, crowd-sourcing, teaching, public speaking, and projects that are individual and collaborative. Game art, intervention, sculpture, imaging, drawing , painting, curatorial, and teaching.
Website: http://micolhebron.artcodeinc.com/ and http://www.delappe.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unicornkiller1/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/josephdelappe/
Joseph DeLappe is a UK-based American artist and academic best known for his art intervention pieces that explore contemporary issues in politics through new media installations and interactive gaming performances. He always worked in new media to express the distaste for power politics. In 2008 he started online gaming where he did many things. He did a whole performance with other people through a gaming program. Micol Hebron is an American interdisciplinary artist and curator. She critically examines feminist activism in art. She poses for the fact that women shouldn’t be treated different in terms of how they show their bodies. The fact that in some social media platforms they allow the male nipple to be shown and is seen as appropriate. She goes against this and she has been banned multiple times from Facebook for this reason.
The art work of DeLappe mostly consists of a variety of things both digital and physical. He uses many different types of ways to show this. In the digital world he uses gaming platforms to show different concepts through performances. In the physical world he uses a lot the concept of “The Artist’s Mouse” where he tracks the movement of the his mouse when going on different platforms of the internet such as museums, playing chess, playing a specific type of online game too and even his regular movement of his mouse. His paintings show jagged lines and some are very colorful while some are black and white. His sculptures are either 3-D printed and are white or made of cardboard and brown. Hebron in comparison does not really do any fabrication of objects, meaning that she rarely does any painting or drawing to represent her art. She most works on projects and pictures, both individual and collaborative ones. She is mostly based on social media interaction and the medium of her art work is her body.
DeLappe’s art work, shows how much the humans and the generation today is involved in the internet and social media. Through the usage of “The Artist’s Mouse” mechanism, he shows the movement of the cursor being used, the more dark one place is, the more it shows how much it is being used per day or for however long you do it. In one of his art work he was using this technique, but it was when he was researching different museums. He used this by showing how he analyzed the different paintings. Hebron’s art work in the other hand, brings awareness to the different standards being kept for men and women in the social media when it comes to expressing themselves with their bodies. She is focused on the point that men are allowed to show their upper body freely and clearly without having to cover up or to be banned from a website. She uses her body and photography and videos to show that this shouldn’t be the case. That both men and women should be treated the same. She uses a cropped picture of a man’s nipple and places it over a picture where a woman’s nipple is seen. She has been banned from Facebook for posting nudity photos but she uses other platforms to express herself.
From both artists, I think that I can mostly relate to John DeLappe and his art. Mostly because now many of us are involved in the digital world, where one spends an excessive amount of time in their laptop or desktop. I have become to realize that the lifestyle that we are living now is completely different to the one before. Now I am more curious to see how an artwork for “The Artist’s Mouse” in these times that there is more usage in the computer. But I liked how both artists had their own style and way of showing their information.
