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
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
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
"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
Other Professional Activities
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
