"Sometimes you tend to (or “they make you”) see the online world and the real one to be far from one another: when traditional media speaks about the “Internet world” it always seems as though users are people without a true identity within the real world, and vice versa; on the Web virtual identities are perceived to be very distant from their real life identities – at least until a few years ago.
Although changing over time, thanks to increasingly efficient technology, the digital world and the real world have come together to contextually coexist, often creating problems. Looking at the many works by american artist Joseph Delappe you can somehow trace the evolution of this dynamic."
See the rest of this great interview by Filippo Lorenzin for Digicult here