Gideon D’Arcangelo - Designing Immersive Experiences 23

Gideon D’Arcangelo is a man of many ambitions. His main interests include the integration of virtual and physical worlds, working toward the design integration of physical, media, systems, graphic & content to ultimately create holistic experiences. 

He joined Arup’s New York office in 2019 where he is a Principal and serves as the Americas Digital Services Portfolio Leader  and a designer of interactive and immersive environments.
He has been the VP of Strategy and Communications at ESI Design. He has worked on the Hall of Human Life at the Boston Museum of Science, and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting’s web platform the Reuters Sign at Three Times Square, and the on-island and on-line ancestor search at Ellis Island Ellis Island Heritage experience. 
Another focus has been the intersection of new technology and musical experience. He is currently a contributing producer for WNYC’s Studio 360. From 2005-2008, he produced the series Listening In on “Weekend America.” In the 1990s, he worked with ethnomusicologist-folklorist Alan Lomax on the Global Jukebox, an illustrated database of world song and dance styles. 
I met Gideon when he was a youngster, living in upstate New York in the 1970s where his family was based. His father, painter Allan D’Arcangelo – briefly as well-known as Andy Warhol - and mom Sylvia were close friends of my mentor and artistic collaborator, poet Jerome Rothenberg and his anthropologist wife, Diane. Gideon and I were more in touch after his time at University of Chicago and continue through to the present. His interweaving of creative and social threads, his easy and evergrowing technological learning is a driver of this constellation. Aside from the magic Gideon has brought to his own designs he has kept his father's extraordinary art legacy alive. 

Playlist of audio samples

A Future Harvest • Charlie Morrow
Ein Feuer Aus Licht Und Liebe • Die Welttraumforscher vs Klangwart 
Hamanamah • Klangwart
Water & Ocean • Charlie Morrow
Salmiana • Marc Sloan
Insurrection Oratorio 1 • Charlie Morrow & Bread & Puppet Theatre
O Yeh Charlie Echomix • Charlie Morrow & b/art
Leave With You • 2XM
Thalys bells + lobby & elevator & hotel ambience + mall muzak + distant trains + crickets + radio signals