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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 the College's two graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) which he directed through the spring of 2008. He is President and CEO 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 offered in the summer of 2008 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.
His non-specialist interests include electronics, theoretical physics, neuropsychology, and network theory.
He has also been known to play Capoeira.
He has two incredible young sons, Anselm and Marcel.
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 designed 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 was 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 President and CEO of Ballibay Camps, Inc., a family of summer camps in NE Pennsylvania. He directs one of these camps: Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts.
Shouts Out
To the best former roommate ever, Jen Tullock; the best parent activism organization founded by an ex-wife, ever; Senior Grantwriter (!) Claudia Friedetzky: Parents for Climate Protection; and the best singer-songwriter-best-friend ever: Jodi Shaw.
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