David Held (b. 1954, NY] is an interdisciplinary artist based in New Paltz, NY. He received his degree from the Center for Media Studies from SUNY Buffalo. He has exhibited and performed in exhibitions at numerous exhibitions including the International Computer Music Conference and the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. His audio work was also featured in Nam June Paik's video on Merce Cunningham entitled “Merce by Merce by Paik”. He was honored with a Mid-Hudson Arts Grant and a NYS Council of the Arts Grant. Held’s work has been written about in MIT's Journal of Computer Music.