Education:
M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 2003 (Electronic Arts)
B.A., Colgate University - 1991 (Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Multimedia and interactive design for theater, dance and music; multimedia computer programming; music composition, performance, synthesis and programming; philosophy, psychology and pedagogy of interdisciplinary artistic collaboration.
Creative Work
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
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
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
