Kevin Driscoll

Kevin Driscoll is a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT focusing on questions of identity and authorship as seen in hip-hop and youth culture online. Kevin is a teacher in the Teen New Media program at the ICA in Boston and formerly taught computer science and mathematics at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Cambridge. In addition, he is a hip-hop DJ and intimate collaborator with Internet-based artist Claire Chanel (Jay-Z Construction Set, RIAA-Mix, Spamthology, R. Kelly's Closet.)

Developing Curriculum Inc., Founding Board Member, Lead Developer
Encouraging the development and publication of high-quality free and open K-12 curriculum.
2005 - Present

Instructor
ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Teaching teen workshops in new media.
2007

Lead Teacher, Computer Science / Mathematics
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, Cambridge, MA
Teaching, creating, and maintaining unique Computer Science curricula for students in grades 6 - 12. Advisor to grades 8, 9, and 10. Advisor to Democratizing the Media and Hip Hop Workshop student life clubs. Representing Art, Music, and Computer Science on the Academic Leadership Team. Administrator of PHA community wiki.
2003 - 2007

Instructor
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Created courses and curricula for full-day workshops aimed at students aged 9-16 years. Example classes include "Computer Graphic Art", "Printmaking", and "Perspective Drawing."
2002-2003

TA: Graphic Design
Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Delivered lectures, designed lesson plans and assigned projects for three semesters of Graphic Design I.
2000-2002

QA / Automation Engineer
Courion Corporation, Framingham, MA
Developed and implemented automated testing software and procedures. Developed fixes for specific customer concerns in conjunction with Services staff.
1999-2002

Second Gallery, South Boston, MA
Designing web and print media at a contemporary art gallery in South Boston concentrating on new media and installation work. Additional responsibilities include promotion, staffing open gallery hours, and snack selection.
2005 - Present

South Boston Open Studios
Website design and administration.
2005 - Present

Fort Culture
Authored many of the original articles in cooperation with the Participatory Culture Foundation. (This site is now overrun with spam comments.)
2005

CD_ROM_#1
Organized the production of a permissively licensed multimedia compilation documenting the musical output of participants in the Honeypump messageboard system in collaboration with Downhill Battle.
2003

Worcester Computer Co-op, Worcester, MA
Website design and maintenance for a free community computer lab built on donated gear. (Site now offline.)
2003

Black FBI, Worcester, MA
Volunteer at the after-school homework help program.
2000

"Frame by Frame", EdTech Magazine, May/June 2008.

Work it, Move it, Bang it, Bump it: Crank Dat Online Dance Craze
ROFLCon
2008.

The Hip-Hop Approach: Technology, Ambiance, and Orality in Popular Music
Guest lecture to CMS.400, MIT
2008.

Thanx 4 Da Add: How Soulja Boy Hacked Mainstream Music
Harvard-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group
2007.

Kids 'n' Code: Hacking K-12 Computer Science
Boston Ruby Group
2007.

Free Culture Activism and the Mass Media Conversation
Beyond Broadcast, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2007.

Toward a System for Online Curriculum-Sharing (podcast)
k12 Online web-based conference
2006

Free the curriculum: Supporting educators with open content
Wikimania 2006, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
2006

TeachForward: Itch/ Scratch
iSummit 2006, iCommons, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006

Tomorrow's Learner Today
Brain Gain, Education Technologies and Multimedia Development, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
2006

Free Beer/ Free Computers
Brief history of the personal computer, hacker ethos, the guts of a PC, and a primer on building one free of cost.
Cloud City Art Show 002, MassArt, Boston, MA
2005

Comic Sans: Reconciliation
Lecture on the use and abuse of Vincent Connare's Comic Sans MS.
Cloud City Art Show 001, MassArt, Boston, MA
2004

SoundEdit16 Tutorial
Joint appearance with Jacob Berendes to introduce members of the Worcester Macromedia Users Group to a classic Macintosh multi-track audio editing tool.
2003

Origins of the Situationist International
Art History Senior Seminar presentations
Assumption College, Worcester, MA
2002

U n mii 2gether
Transcoded video.
Proof Gallery, South Boston, MA
2008.

Better Off Alone
Sound and performance installation by Kevin Driscoll and Rebecca Gordon.
Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2007.

Personal Computer
Co-curator with gallery director, Rebecca Gordon.
Second Gallery, South Boston, MA
2007.

Various works executed in collaboration with Claire Chanel
For a complete list of pieces exhibited in cooperation with internet-based artist Claire Chanel, please refer to her CV: http://clairechanel.com
2003-Present

wART Benefit Show, Traina Center, Clark University.
Collaborative paintings with Shaun Kesslar and Michael Antelope.
2003.

Senior Seminar Art Show, Assumption College.
Video installation ("This Wooden Man"), interior construction.
2002.

Worcester Art Museum Student Show.
Black & white photography.
2001.

Hearts on Display.
Polaroid SX-70 photography, charcoal on paper, pen and ink drawings.
Curator and coordinator
2001.

Student Art Exhibition, Assumption College.
Oil paintings.
2000, 2001.

Bone Zone
Free/ open source hardcore punk band based on the ethic of "release early and often." Mixed songs and separated tracks available at perchingonthebeam.org.
2006-present

Gold Chain
Throwing parties with a focus on creating visually interesting women/glbt-friendly events. Playing hip-hop, dancehall, and reggaeton as DJ Lone Wolf.
2006-present.

Memories Forever
Fantasy rave touring performance troupe. Two EPs (all music available for download) and 40+ performances including:

• Offering to Xavier Cha's Horn of Plenty at Taxter and Spengemann Gallery, NYC, 2006.
• Appearance in Robert Melee's Talent Show at the Kitchen, NYC, 2005.
• New Year's Eve Eve at Great Scott, Boston, MA, 2005.
• New Year's Eve at the Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2004.
• Two tours of art galleries, lofts, comic book stores, gaming shops, and other unconventional venues in the US.

2003-present.

I Am the Woolly Mammoth Tour
Traveling performing arts group. Combined solo works to create a "living collage" of music, spoken, and visual arts. Month-long tour of the East Coast, Canada, and the Midwest, including a nationwide convergence of similar groups for a festival in Des Moines.
2002

the Bears & the Giraffes
Challenge: create a band with a predetermined lifetime of four weeks. Write, rehearse, and record an album. Press 100 CDs, each with unique handmade wooden packaging. Tour for ten days, including "guerilla" outdoor performances.
2001

the Goonies
Vocals, songwriting, booking for this DIY hardcore/punk group. Three independent releases. (3000+ copies sold.) Hundreds of hand-screened shirts in 13+ designs. 150-200 live shows, including a ten-day Northeast tour.
1998-2001

• Lone Wolf, Nightwind, mixtape, 2008.
• The Simps, Jessica Simpson, digital EP, 2008.
• Bone Zone, Perching on the Beam, cassette, 2006.
• Memories Forever, The Wheel Weaves As The Wheel Wills b/w Castle Of Acorns, CD single, 2005.
• Memories Forever, self-titled, CD EP, 2004.
• Futurmix, cassette, 2003.
• Sleepytime/ Wakeytime, Vol. 1, cassette, 2003.
• The Bears And The Giraffes, self-titled, CD, 2001.
• The Goonies, The Ego Is On, cassette and brownie, 2001.
• The Goonies, self-titled, CD, 2000.
• The Goonies / Kicked In The Head, split CD, 1999.
• Samus, Happy Accidents, CD, 1998.
• Argyle Socks, self-titled, cassette, 1997.
• Invisible Pedestrian, self-titled, cassette, 1997.
• xiagox, Sonic and Knuckles, musicdisk, 1997.
• xiagox, Get A Day Job, musicdisk, 1997.
• Samus, JC Smokes Pot, cassette, 1996.

M.S. Comparative Media Studies
MIT, Cambridge, MA
2007-2009 (projected)

B.A. Visual Arts, cum laude.
Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Emphasis: Graphic Design, Installation, Philosophy, Computer Science.

• Senior Thesis: The Origins of the Situationist International
• AC Green Party, Founder
• AC Allies (Gay-Straight Alliance), President

1998-2002

Additional coursework:

• Internet and Society: the Politics of Control with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society via Harvard Extension school, 2005.
• Math and Science Partnership Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2004.

• Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship, MIT, 2008
• iCommons Summit Scholar, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2007
• iCommons Summit Scholar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006
• Calderwood Writing Fellowship, Boston, MA, 2005

• Platforms: Windows, MacOS(8,9,X), GNU/Linux, LAMP server administration
• Applications: Adobe Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress, Vegas, FruityLoops, Audacity.
• Code: Python, PHP, SQL, XHTML, CSS.
• Crafts: Silkscreening, B&W Photography, Basic Fire-Eating.

27 February 2008