Interactive media artist John J.A. Jannone is a sound and video artist, performer and designer of experimental electronic instruments. His work has been presented in New York City at Diapason, St. Mark's Church, the Merce Cunningham Studio, the Medicine Show Theater, Roulette, Dixon Place, Whitebox Gallery, Studio 18 Gallery, the Joyce SoHo, The Kitchen, the Knitting Factory, Independent Art Here, and the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. He performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Havana, Cuba in 2001, and has twice been selected for presentation at the Connecticut College Biennial Symposium on Art and Technology (2001, 2003). Recent projects include collaborations with composers Holland Hopson and Bernadette Speach, video artist Marisela LaGrave, choreographers Anita Cheng and Kristin Fieseler, and actor Karl B. Stewart. His music appears in the new film Data's Congestion, produced by Maria Pessino. He received a Meet The Composer grant in 2002, and a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant in 2004 for research in multimedia control interfaces, motion capture, and immersive performance environments.

John is an associate professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. In addition to teaching studio television production and television aesthetics in his home department of Television and Radio, he teaches computer music composition in the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, and is the director of the College's new graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts. He has taught previously at Pratt Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Hudson Valley Community College. He holds an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BA in Philosophy, Cum Laude, from Colgate University. He is a director and vice-president of Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts.