Cadre Art Gallery Critique

           The “Cadre Show” is a laboratory for new media from San Jose State University that display at Haldan Art Gallery at Lake Tahoe exhibition. Cadre is a program where students learn the study of art and technology. It stands for Computers in Art, Design, Research, and Education. It is one of the programs at the Art Department at San Jose State University.

Joseph DeLappe is a professor of the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Nevada, where he presided over the digital media group. He gets involved in electronic and new media, he has exhibited several times in the United States and internationally which including Australia, Britain, China, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. He also presided over an Iraq memorial web site, which are an online exhibition space and a memorial activity for many thousands of civilian casualties in the Iraq war. He has many lectures in the world, such as in the New York Museum of Modern Art; he also received a lot of media interviews.

One piece is Taliban Hands by Joseph DeLappe. These hands are part of an ongoing investigation to The Terrorist Other. The Terrorist Other is a large scale polygon sculptures enemies in computer games based on contemporary conflicts tend towards stereotypical depictions of the terroristic other. For his work, he has extracted data from various shooter games effectively role-play as terrorists. Furthermore, his work is based on computer fighting game as his inspiration and creative materials. Behavior is caused and the interaction of these games came to interference, it constitutes an attack and social intervention concept. We see the sculpture of two hands on the ground in the exhibition hall that is the hands of the Taliban fighter from a highly controversial shooter game “Medal of Honor”. Artist gets the prototype through the 3D data picking demobilization technology and uses white corrugated plastic to create them. The sculpture on the ground represents a culture which makes the contemporary war as a real game took place location to restore images and objects in the global ubiquitous virtual world that become the place to let our conscience and consciousness to stop.

In conclusion, the Cadre Laboratory is an interdisciplinary academic and research programs that is committed to the use of information technology and artistic experimentation for New Media. Theories and key directions have defined in the context of a conceptual art activity. Teachers and students took part in the evolution of media technology more than 20 years.