May 30, 2006
Protest?
A New Kind of Art Form Leads to a New Kind of Protest (PC)
The Dead-in-Iraq Project
Joseph DeLappe can often be found logging into an online session of America's Army for hours at a time, but this Associate Professor from San Francisco isn't running around shooting terrorists. Instead, Prof. DeLappe spends the entire session typing. He may stop occasionally when his character is killed and he has to wait for a respawn, or he'll stop to take a screenshot of a reply sent to him from another player, but otherwise, he's just typing.
Prof. DeLappe expects to be typing for some time. This is because he's typing in the name of every single American soldier killed in Iraq since the war started, which according to the Department of Defense is currently 2,456.
...why not use an online deathmatch as a pedestal for speaking out against a war?
complete article/ links:
http://www.gamespy.com/pc/americas-army/709854p1.html
Lappe's Home Page w/ 'memorable' screen shots
from "playing" America's Army | Metafilter
thanks Consumptive
Posted by Stubbornson at May 30, 2006 10:20 AM