Joseph DeLappe performs dead-in-iraq :: March 20, 2008; 7 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC.

On Thursday, March 20 — the date of the US invasion of Iraq — Joseph DeLappe will enact his ongoing protest and memorial work set within the Department of Defense’s online military recruiting and marketing video game, America’s Army. Using the login name “dead-in-Iraq”, DeLappe enters the multiplayer game as a player and, forgoing fighting, uses the game’s features to memorialize US military members killed in Iraq. “As of 1/17/08, I have input 3745 names. I intend to keep doing so until the end of this war. As of 1/17/08 there have been 3929 American service persons killed in Iraq.”