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The faculty of the PIMA program is composed of members from the graduate Theater; Music; Film; Television, Radio & Emerging Media; Art; and Computer and Information Science departments.
The work of the American artists team Jennifer and Kevin McCoy has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, P.S.1, the Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. International exhibitions include projects at the Pompidou Center, the British Film Institute, ZKM, the Hanover Kunstverien, the Bonn Kunstverein, and F.A.C.T. (Liverpool, UK). Grants include a 2002 Creative Capital Grant for Emerging Fields, a 2005 Wired Rave Award, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. Articles about their work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Art News, The New York Times, and Newsweek. Residencies include work at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Their work is represented in New York by Postmasters Gallery and Gallerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva, and can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and MUDAM in Luxembourg.
John J.A. Jannone is a Professor at Brooklyn College, and founded the college’s M.F.A. program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts. He teaches courses in sound design emerging media. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation and CreativeIT grants, and is the executive director of a summer arts camp for children (campBallibay.com). He is also an animator, musician, and composer for dance and film. He has produced two feature films: Small Time (2020) and Person Woman Man Camera TV (2022).
Professor Jannone research expertise includes: Audiovisual installation art; music composition, performance, synthesis and programming; multimedia and interactive design for theater, dance and music; multimedia computer programming; interdisciplinary artistic collaboration.
David Grubbs is professor of music at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. At Brooklyn College he also teaches in the M.F.A. programs in PIMA and creative writing. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press) as well as the collaborative artists’ books Simultaneous Soloists (with Anthony McCall, Pioneer Works Press) and Projectile (with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana, Drag City). Grubbs has released 14 solo albums and appeared on more than 200 releases. In 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. He is known for his ongoing cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, and his work has been presented at, among other venues, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.
Erwin Maas is a New York–based theater-maker, educator and international arts advocate from the Netherlands. He has worked extensively in Australia, Europe, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States. In New York, he directs numerous productions Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway as well as Site Specific. Maas is the co-founding director of the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), Artistic Associate & Director of the Fellowship Program for the International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), and the programming director for the Off Broadway Origin Theatre Company. He is a frequently invited director, facilitator, educator, and speaker for international cultural organizations, festivals, universities, congresses, and think tanks. From 2016 to 2020, Maas was the artistic/creative director of the International Society for Performing Arts (ISPA), and from 2010 to 2014, he was the director of performing arts for the Cultural Department of the Royal Netherlands Embassy & Consulates in the USA. Maas is a core member of Theater Without Borders, and a member of Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics and of the Netherland-America Foundation Cultural Committee. He also serves on the Artistic Advisory Board of the ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, the First Nation Spiderwoman Theater, and DecadesOut, an organization at the intersection of arts, science, and policy. He was a Fulbright Scholar for his M.F.A. in theatre directing at Columbia University School of the Arts. He also holds an M.A. in drama teaching from the Academy of Dramatic Arts Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and an M.A. in media arts and production/documentary filmmaking from the University of Technology Sydney – Australia.
Tiri Kananuruk is a Thai performance artist and educator. Her works focus on the manipulation of sound, text, and the disruption of time. How technologies change the meaning and the ways we communicate. She utilizes mistakes, both human and machine, as means of improvisation. She holds a B.A. in Exhibition Design from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and a Master’s in Interactive Telecommunications, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Her work has been shown at the National Gallery of Singapore; ATT19, Thailand; RÝMD, Iceland; Network Music Festival UK; Elecktron, Estonia; 856G, Philippines; Singapore Art Museum; Currents New Media, New Mexico; Cycling ’74 Expo, Massachusetts; CultureHub, New York Live Arts, Roulette Intermedium, Judson Memorial Church, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York. She has been a guest speaker at Movement and Computing; Iceland University of the Arts; Data & Society, and the Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York. She was an artist resident at Mana Contemporary (2019), CultureHub (2020), Barnard Movement Lab (2020), Media Art Exploration (2021), and NEWINC Member (2023). She is a founding member of NUUM collective, and a co-founder of MORAKANA along with Sebastián Morales.
Ayana Evans is a NYC-based performance artist. Her guerilla-style performances have been staged at El Museo del Barrio, The Barnes Foundation, The Bronx Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, Queens Museum and a variety of free public locations. Her performances have been reviewed in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut. She was a 2017-2018 awardee of the Franklin Furnace Fund for performance, 2018 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts, 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, 2021-22 Professor of the Practice at Brown University, and 2022 Chamberlain Award winner at Headlands Art Center. Her past residencies include Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Evans’ current projects include an upcoming performance series and class visit at Wellesley College as part of the Taking Off the White Gloves exhibition showcasing the work of Lorraine O’Grady, curating the Spring Movement Series at the Center for Performance Research(CPR) in Brooklyn, and the development of a arts focused career fair that has welcomed over 200 formerly incarcerated individuals and transformed the job hunting space into a fun environment in 2022 and 2023. Evans is currently an adjunct professor at Fordham College, Brooklyn College, and NYU.
Alicia Grullón is from and based in New York City. Grullón’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions including The 8th Floor, Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC House for Arts and Media, School of Visual Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University, Socrates Sculpture Park, Performa 11, Old Stone House and Art in Odd Places. She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and Franklin Furnace Archives. She has participated in residencies with Hemispheric Institute for Politics and Performance at New York University, Center for Book Arts, Bronx Museum of Arts on 80 White Street AIM Alum, and Shandanken Project on Governors island. She has presented for the 2017 Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Creative Time Summit 2015, The Royal College of Art, and United States Association for Art Educators. Her work has been written about in the The New York Times, Village Voice, Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, ArtNet News, The Columbia Spectator and Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory from Taylor and Francis. Grullon is the recipient of the inaugural Colene Brown Art Prize for 2019. In 2020, she was awarded the Moore College of Art and Design Walentas 2020-2022 Fellowship. She received a B.F.A. from TISCH School of the Arts at New York University, an M.F.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz and has done doctoral coursework in Art and Art Education at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University. In 2021, she received an honorary doctorate degree in Fine Arts from Moore College of Art and Design.
