Jon Bellona is a sound artist and award-winning educator who specializes in digital technologies.
Jon Bellona earned his Ph.D. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia in 2018, M.A. from the University of Virginia in 2015, M.Mus. from the University of Oregon in 2011, Recording Diploma from the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences in 2006, and his B.A. from Hamilton College in 2003. Jon studied composition with Samuel F. Pellman, Matthew Burtner, Ted Coffey, Jeffrey Stolet, and Judith Shatin.
Jon’s music and original performances on custom-built digital musical instruments have been programmed by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the Kyma International Sound Symposium, the Coastal Futures Conservatory, the Intel UX Symposium, and the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Jon’s multimedia and sound art installations have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Museum of American History, SPRING/BREAK in NYC, the High Desert Museum, as well as galleries in NY, VA, ME, and OR. Jon is currently a Co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal Stem Learning pilot grant, which has been mentioned in the LA Times and featured in the University of Oregon’s publication Around the O.
Jon has received awards through the Mozilla Community Gigabit Fund, the National Science Foundation, the Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Grant (Integrated Arts), the Jefferson Trust, the Oregon Arts Commission, the University of Oregon Center for Environmental Futures, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Jon has served as a University of Virginia Presidential Fellow in Data Science, an Environmental Resilience and Sustainability Fellow, and an Art & Environmental Action Scholar. Jon’s sonifications and music have been mentioned in NPR Boston, Think Out Loud (OPB), Computer Music Journal, and the Oregon Quarterly. His music has been released on Innova Recordings and Ravello Records.
Jon is currently a Senior Instructor I of Audio Production at the University of Oregon and is a co-director of Harmonic Laboratory, an interdisciplinary arts collective focused on art and technology collaborations.