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Game Design, Music, Emerging Media

John Driscoll is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE) and collaborator on the David Tudor Rainforest IV project since its inception in 1973. He has toured extensively in the US and Europe with: CIE, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, David Tudor, and as a solo performer. His work involves robotic instruments, compositions/ sound installations for unique architectural spaces, rotating loudspeakers, ultrasonic instruments and music for dance. His dance commissions include: the Merce Cunningham Dance Co., Douglas Dunn & Dancers, and the Dance Construction Company. He has received numerous awards including a Berlin Residency from the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogam.

He worked at the NY Hall of Science as Manager of Arts & Technologies to create some of the first computer-based interactive science exhibits (Science Links) and “Sound Sensations” (15 exhibits on audio technologies. He also created and managed an artist-in-residence program at the Hall for arts & technologies projects with installations, performances and exhibits by Trimpin, Liz Phillips, Felix Hess, Paul DeMarinis, Yoshi Wada, Martin Riches and numerous other international artists. He also established an annual presentation of art and technology works titled “SpringWorks”.

Driscoll formed Shadow Interactive Inc. in the mid 1990’s to consult and produce educational software for science museums including the Shedd Aquarium, NY Hall of Science, Thames Science Center and Pratt Museum. His company also worked with non-profit organizations including Harvestworks, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Classroom Inc., Film/Video Arts, Lincoln Center Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY State Dept. of Health and others.

He helped create Slingo Inc. a game development company in 1995, and served in a number of capacities including Game Designer, Dir. of International Marketing, and Dir. of New Media until 2010. He designed numerous games for online, lottery tickets, hand-held devices, mobile phones, slot machines, and TV game shows.

After David Tudor’s passing in 1996, he revived Composers Inside Electronics and produced a number of Rainforest IV sound installations for Lincoln Center, Judson Church, Lehman College,
Getty Museum, Cal Arts and The Kitchen.

In 2009, he created a new self-running installation version of Rainforest V with Phil Edelstein and Matt Rogalsky with installations at Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City) and Governors Island (NYC). He is currently teaching a Game Design Concepts course at NYC College of Technology (CUNY), while performing and creating sound installations with Composers Inside Electronics (see: http://www.cieweb.net/cie). For his personal work (see: http://www.cieweb.net/jdriscoll/)