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John J.A. Jannone makes and studies noises, pictures, and stories; and is particularly interested in noises, pictures, and stories which somehow involve electricity, numbers, and people. He is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, and designed and directs the College's two graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA). He is a vice president of Ballibay Camps, Inc., the director of Camp Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts, and is involved in the establishment of the international theater company Tiyatro Global. He designed the Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Arts (ITPA) program being offered this summer by The Gulbenkian Program on Creativity and Artistic Creation in Lisbon, Portugal. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation and CreativeIT grants.
He has also been known to play Capoeira.
He has two incredible young sons, Anselm and Marcel.
Books
He is keeping his head down and writing three books, working titles:
- Radical Tech (an aesthetic and technical manual for small budget multimedia in live performance)
- Television Aesthetics and Televisual Analysis: An Introduction
- Performance and Interaction
Tiyatro Global
John is very excited to be involved in the foundation of Tiyatro Global (tiyatroglobal.org); an international theater company with an interest in defining the role of the theater in the age of globalization.
PIMA
He is director of the M.F.A. and Advanced Certificate Programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College (interactivearts.org). A condensed version of first semester of the program will be offered in Lisbon, Portugal in the summer of 2008; for more information see itpa.gulbenkian.pt. A postterminal fellowship for graduates of the M.F.A. program is in development in cooperation with Tiyatro Global.
Ballibay
He is also a Vice President of Ballibay Camps, Inc., and director of Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts, a children's summer camp for the fine and performing arts. Ballibay is expanding from one to to six camps in 2008-10. See ArtsCamps.us for more information.
The Jannone Foundation
In 2008 he will become interim director of The Jannone Foundation, a charitable corporation supporting performing arts education founded on the estate of his father, Gerard J. Jannone (1929-2006)
Shouts Out
To the best roommate ever, Jen Tullock; the best parent activism organization founded by an ex-wife, ever: Parents for Climate Protection; and the best singer-songwriter-best-friend ever: Jodi Shaw.
For My Students