Jeff Donaldson is a Maryland-based artist and designer originally from Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2001, while studying music composition at university, he began applying extended techniques for musical instruments to video devices. Borrowing the term "prepared" from John Cage, his prepared video systems offered a new, and ultimately very influential approach to hardware-based installation, performance and surface design. Donaldson has exhibited and performed this work around the world from 2004 to present.