bio

Jon He (Ph.D) is an experimental sound and integrated media artist, and researcher. He works within a hybridized culture of art and technology, exploring the frontiers of creative expression and experience in time-based art forms through technology. He draws upon ancient Chinese sound practices and re-imagine them as gestural controllers, interactive systems and mechatronics for installations and live performances.

Currently, Jon is a senior lecturer for Music Technology (Hardware and Software) at the School of Music and Creative Media Production, Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to joining Prior to joining Massey University, Jon was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in New Media (Sonic Arts) at Yale-NUS College (Singapore).

Jon completed his Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology at LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) in 2010. In 2011, he was invited to Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) for a workshop residency on instrument design for electronic music performance. With the support of CalArts Music Technology Scholarship, Jon completed his MFA with concentrations in Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence and Design, and Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts (California, USA) in 2013. During his postgraduate study at CalArts, he was a researcher in a program supported by the National Science Foundation to teach computer science principles to digital media artists. He was also a researcher for a Google Research Award project to develop custom-built remote sensing devices for real-time audio data feature extraction and visualization.

Jon completed his Ph.D (2017) in consultation with Dr. Ajay Kapur and Prof. Dale A. Carnegie at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). His research presents new tools and methodologies that enable new approaches to guqin music analysis, its documentation, and interaction with new media. His research was awarded the Postgraduate Research Excellence Award, and the Laywood and Joyce Chan Award 2015 for History/Culture, both of which recognize and reward excellent research that displays outstanding novel research method, and demonstrates a high level of creativity.