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John J.A. Jannone studies cooperation, coordination, and collaboration with a particular interest in collective art-making and live performance. He is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, and designed and directs the College's MFA program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA).

He teaches courses in music composition, collaboration, computer programming, performance, multi-camera television production, and television aesthetics.

He is an avid musician, martial artist, and athlete, and has recently taken an interest in contact improvisation.

He is the recipient of numerous grants, including National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation and CreativeIT grants.

John co-directs a family of summer arts camps for children; learn more at http://www.ballibayCamps.com

John believes in providing kids and adults with delicious food prepared from scratch using local, seasonal, and sustainably produced ingredients. He spent the summers of 2009 and 2010 working with incredible collaborators at the camps to provide this sort of foodservice to the camp community: http://food.ballibayCamps.com

He has two incredible young sons, Cairo and Marcel.

Brooklyn College

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.

The Ballibay Camps

He directs The Ballibay Camps, a family of summer camps in NE Pennsylvania. He co-directs Camp Ballibay with choreographer Kristin Fieseler, and co-directs The Farm Arts Camp with artist Suzanne Goldenberg. He also co-directs The Rock Farm and The Endless Mountains Dance Camp.

John collaborated with Chef Ellen Thomas, Chef Alison Weiner, and food expert Dr. Susan Rubin, to create a new foodservice at the camps emphasizing "real food" -- scratch cooking from local, seasonal, and sustainable ingredients. He continued his work with chefs Holly Mendenhall and Jasmine Hibbitt in 2010, and Angela A Potts in 2011.