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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 currently co-coordinates the MFA program in television production.

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

His current research interest is the psychology of collaboration, specifically the sensation of conscious will during the collaborative process.

John co-directs two summer camps for children: Camp Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts, and The Farm Arts Camp.

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

He has also been known to play Capoeira.

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.

He currently co-coordinates the MFA in Television Production at Brooklyn College.

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.

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.

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.