John Duncan
John Duncan (1953, Wichita, Kansas) is widely recognized for his work in performance, music, and installations based on emotional responses to sensory deprivation and stimuli. Duncan's events and installations, often known to involve rendering participants completely nude and blind, have recently been held and shown at Ars Electronica, the Watari Museum of Art in Tokyo, and Lucia A-Go-Go in Stockholm. His work in performance has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Osterreichisches Museum für Augewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); and Museum of Tokyo (MOT). His audio projects THE CRACKLING (1996, composed with Max Springer) from field recordings made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, and TAP INTERNAL (2000, Touch # Tone 11) are considered by critics and composers alike to be landmarks in experimental sound. NAV, his audio project with Francisco López, received a 1999 Prix Ars Electronica award for digital music.