John J. A. Jannone
Professor
Television, Radio & Emerging Media
Location: 505s Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.4203
Fax: 718.951.4418
Email:
John J. A. Jannone's Web site
John J.A. Jannone is a Professor at Brooklyn College, and founded the College's MFA program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts. He teaches courses in sound design emerging media. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation and CreativeIT grants, and is the executive director of a summer arts camp for children (campBallibay.com). He is also an animator, musician, and composer for dance and film. He has produced two feature films: Small Time (2020) and Person Woman Man Camera TV (2022).
Education:
M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 2003 (Electronic Arts)
B.A., Colgate University - 1991 (Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Audiovisual installation art; music composition, performance, synthesis and programming; Multimedia and interactive design for theater, dance and music; multimedia computer programming; interdisciplinary artistic collaboration.
Creative Work
Projection Designer: Macbeth - With Grenfell Theater, ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER, Corner Brook, NL, Canada; 3/2020.
2020
Producer, "Small Time" (2018 feature film) written and directed by Niav Conty 2018
Animator, "Soldier Online" music video for the band Old Robes (Subtle Soup Records). 2018
Animator, Composer: "Origin" a dance and multimedia work by Kristin Alexander and the Annex Dance Company. Premiere: June 2018, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC. Additional Performances: February 2019: Center for Performance Research, NYC 2018
Projection Design for Off-Broadway Theater; "The Female Role Model Project" interactive/multimedia theater by Transforma Theatre Inc. using live EEG brain wave sensing technology on stage to influence sound and image. November/December 2018: Three Legged Dog, NYC. 2018
Animator, Programmer, Composer; "Sunspots" generative animation and music. 2017
Performer, Creator; "Bureau of Ships." Vintage military test equipment re-purposed as music synthesizers. Performed at Mixed Signals 002, The Umbrella Factory, Bushwick, Brooklyn. 2017
Composer, score for "Joy Ride" (2016 film) written and directed by Niav Conty 2016
Producer, "Joy Ride" (2016 film) written and directed by Niav Conty 2016
Minimum Movement Database: interactive dance performance with Suiso Maho Ogawa.
The performer chooses moments of choreography
from a database of recorded movements,
selecting and arranging them using gesture:
composing a dance by dancing.
Premiere at Industry City Distillery 2015
"Interactive Video Environment: Visual Environment for a Social Space." Commissioned by interior design technology company RAMENWERK. Presented weekly from February at DASSARA, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2014
Fiddle Faddle: Video for Neil B. Rolnick?s "Fiddle Faddle" for Karen Bentley Pollick?s Fall 2014 tour of Neil B. Rolnick works for violin and video. With The Night Bears. Premiere at SPECTRUM, NYC. 10/2014
2014
Co-creator, Clytemnestra 3.0 (based on Charles Mee's Agamemnon 2.0), a theatrical work utilizing motion capture to drive sound synthesis and laser illumination of live performers, with The Night Bears (http://nightbears.org) and the I.S.E. Ensemble. Onassis Cultural Center. Athens, Greece. 2012
Co-creator, performer, Meat and Light, a new theatrical work utilizing long-exposure digital photography algorithms to create graphic novels interactively during live performance, with The Night Bears (http://nightbears.org). The Red Room. New York. 2012
Projection designer, The Dalí Project. Video and lighting design using multiple-projector projection mapping, with Puppet Junction (Sophia Remolde & Serra Hirsch). Detroit Institute of Arts. 2012
Co-creator, performer, Assumptions Made in the Dark, interactive performance with The Night Bears (http://nightbears.org). New Workshop Theater, Brooklyn College. 2011
Jannone, John J.A., Anita Cheng and Ronald Kiel. Remembered River performance in partial fulfillment of a PSC-CUNY grant-funded project. 11th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium. Connecticut College Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology. New London, Conn. 2008
Endangered Guitar Imaging. Video performance collaboration with Hans Tammen (endangered guitar). Music with a View Series. The Flea Theater. New York, February. 2007
"M.F.A. Anniversary Concert." A concert of electronic music with Holland Hopson. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, N.Y., October. 2006
Endangered Guitar Imaging. Video performance collaboration with Hans Tammen (endangered guitar). Issue Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., April. 2006
Four Octophonic Works. Performance in the Stillframe installation, supported through a PSC-CUNY grant. University of California - Irvine. April. 2005
Restraint. Performed by George Brunner, Doug Cohen, David Grubbs, John Jannone and Amnon Wolman. International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival. Brooklyn College. November. 2005
Chasing. Performance in the Stillframe installation by flautist Andrea LaRose. DIAPASON Gallery. New York, November. 2004
Endangered Guitar Imaging. Video performance collaboration with Hans Tammen (endangered guitar). {R}A K E, M Shanghai Den. Brooklyn, N.Y, October. 2004
Filtering Mee. Artists' book and plumbpoetry based on the texts of Charles Mee; with China Blue. Part of the exhibition Fluid Spaces, L'Atheneum, Centre culturale de universite du Bourgogne. Dijon, France, September-October. 2004
Four Octophonic Works. Performance in the Stillframe installation, supported through a PSC-CUNY grant. DIAPASON Gallery. New York, November. 2004
Innocence Lost. Electronic music composition, video design and sound design for Karl B. Stewart's one-man show (http://www.karlbstewart.com), commissioned by Karl B. Stewart, HIV+ HIV- and HIV Stories. 2004
Innocence Lost. Electronic music composition, video design and sound design for Karl B. Stewart's one-man show (http://www.karlbstewart.com), commissioned by Karl B. Stewart. Easton Mountain. Greenwich, N.Y., September. 2004
Second Nature. Interactive video for dance, with the Anita Cheng Dance Company. Danspace Project. St. Mark's Church. New York, March. 2004
Stillframe. Interactive sound installation. DIAPASON Gallery. New York, November. 2004
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Official Selection, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
ASHLAND INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, Ashland, OR; 4/2021. (Awards and Honors) 2021
Official Selection, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
SAN FRANCISCO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, San Francisco, CA; 2/2021.
(Awards and Honors) 2021
Official Selection, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
SAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, San Luis Obispo, CA; 3/2021. (Awards and Honors) 2021
Winner: Spirit of Freedom Award for Narrative Feature, "Small Time" (Feature Film) (Producer; Composer)
BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Nassau, Bahamas; 1/2021.
(Awards and Honors) 2021
Official Selection, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
SANTA FE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, Santa Fe, NM; 10/2020
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: Alliance of Women Film Journalist's EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature, "Small Time"
WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL, Whistler, BC, Canada; 12/2020.
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: Audience Award, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
CINEQUEST FILM AND CREATIVITY FESTIVAL, San Jose, CA; 2/2020.
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: Jury Award: Best Acting, Audrey Grace Marshall, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
CENTRE FILM FESTIVAL, Philipsburg, PA; 11/2020
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: Jury Award: Best Director, Niav Conty, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
CENTRE FILM FESTIVAL, Philipsburg, PA; 11/2020
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: Jury Award: Best Feature, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
ROCKPORT FILM FESTIVAL, Rockport, TX; 11/2020.
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: Jury Award: Best Narrative Feature, "Small Time" feature film (Producer; Composer)
CENTRE FILM FESTIVAL, Philipsburg, PA; 11/2020
(Awards and Honors) 2020
Winner: New Filmmakers Forum Emerging Director Award, Niav Conty, "Small Time" feature film (Producer, Composer)
ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SLIFF), St. Louis, MO; 11/2020.
(Awards and Honors) 2020
"Soldier Online" (2018 music video) - official selection of the ISTANBUL EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, Istanbul, Turkey. (Awards and Honors) 2019
"Soldier Online" (2018 music video) - official selection of the BOGOTÁ EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL / CINEAUTOPSIA v.5, Bogotá, Colombia (Awards and Honors) 2019
"Soldier Online" (2018 music video) - official selection of the EXS FESTIVAL, Novi Sad, Serbia. (Awards and Honors) 2019
"Soldier Online" (2018 music video) - official selection of the UNDER_the_RADAR_2019 festival, Vienna, Austria. (Awards and Honors) 2019
"Soldier Online" (2018 music video) - official selection of the NCCC FILM & ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Sanborn, NY (Awards and Honors) 2019
"Sunspots" (2017 animation) - official selection of the AE FILM FESTIVAL, Minneapolis, MN
(Awards and Honors) 2019
Award: Best Animation, "Soldier Online" (Animator; Programmer):
FEEDBACK EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, Toronto, Canada; 1/2020.
(Awards and Honors) 2019
Nominee: Outstanding Innovative Design for "The Female Role Model Project" (Projection Designer; Programmer)
NEW YORK INNOVATIVE THEATER AWARDS, New York City.
(Awards and Honors) 2019
"Joy Ride" (2016 film) - official selection of the Brussels Short Film Festival (Awards and Honors) 2017
"Joy Ride" (2016 film) - official selection of the DC Shorts Film Festival (Awards and Honors) 2017
"Joy Ride" (2016 film) - official selection of the Marfa Film Festival (Awards and Honors) 2017
"Joy Ride" (2016 film) - official selection of the Monmouth Film Festival (Awards and Honors) 2017
"Joy Ride" (2016 film) - official selection of the Reno Tahoe International Film Festival (Awards and Honors) 2017
"Joy Ride" (2016 film) - official selection of the Tallgrass International Film Festival (Awards and Honors) 2017
National Science Foundation CreativeIT grant, for "Mixed-Reality Without Tears: Tools to Support Creativity in Mixed-Reality Applications." Co-principal investigator. $199,561. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Favorite Teacher (Department of Television and Radio), Broeklundian (Brooklyn College yearbook). (Awards and Honors) 2005
PSC-CUNY-37 Research Award, CUNY Research Foundation, for 12 new works for hexaphonic electric bass guitar. $3,708. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant, CUNY Research Foundation, for "Design and Implementation of Virtual Networked and Mobile Collaborative Spaces." Co-principal investigator. $60,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004
Departmental Creative Achievement Award, Department of Television and Radio. (Awards and Honors) 2004
National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, for "Acquisition of CAVE for Experiments in the Creation of Collaborative Learning Environments." Co-principal investigator. $299,750. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Japanese Society for Theatre Studies, Modern Theater Research Group, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Chair, "Post-Human Ethics: The Self as Media" panel. Global Media Ethics Conference. Panelists: Samir Chopra, Lev Manovich, and The Night Bears (Sophia Remolde and Daniel Munkus). Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Invited talk and workshop on interactivity and improvisation. First Conference on Interactive Performance. Interactive Performance Lab, University of Central Florida. Orlando, Fla. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
Jannone, John J.A., Anita Cheng and Ronald Kiel. "Dance and Technology Collaboration." 11th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium. Connecticut College Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology. New London, Conn. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Design and Implementation of Virtual Networked and Mobile Collaborative Spaces" Hunter College/Brooklyn College Collaborative Research Project. Share, Share Widely: A Conference on New Media Education, organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity. CUNY Graduate Center. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Non-Hierarchical Collaboration in Production and Performance," Works that Create a Community through Physical, Virtual, or Momentary Relationships Panel. College Art Association Conference. Atlanta, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
Professional Leadership
Coordinator, M.F.A. Program in Television Production (http://www.bctvr.org). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Coordinated and designed curriculum of the summer program in interdisciplinary and technological performance arts, hosted by the The Gulbenkian Program on Creativity and Artistic Creation (Programa Gulbenkian Criatividade e Criação Artística). Lisbon, Portugal. http://itpa.gulbenkian.pt/. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008
Director, M.F.A. Program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (http://www.interactivearts.org). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006
Pedagogical Achievements
Invited visiting associate professor, Art & Media M.A. Program, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 2014
Community Activities
Cook/Server, CHiPS Soup Kitchen and Shelter; 1/2020- 2020
Other Professional Activities
Judge at Large, New York Innovative Theater Awards; 2020- 2020
Advisory board member, Falkor Systems, an autonomous flying-robot design company, New York. 2013
Invited speaker: "A New Production of Karel Čapek's R.U.R." With Sophia Remolde. Resonance Ensemble. Theater Row. New York. 2013
