Jon Santos lives and works in New York City.

Santos works in multidisciplinary mediums- video, sound, collage, sculpture

and installation. His work often exists outside the context of design due to

the fragmentation of experience and the dispersion of knowledge into many

self-contained disciplines, each with it's own ever growing, increasingly

private language.

This awareness has provoked inquires on the concept of modularity and the

elemental language in visual arts and music. He attempts to compare

structure across multiple textural, virtual and physical realms as a way of

assigning meaning to otherwise abstract form. In his video Delay Chamber,

2000 - the repetition of sound becomes the basis for how he conceives

structure limited not just to music but in other disciplines within visual art and

architecture. This pattern language became the basis for what he calls

Common Space.

Santos launched Common Space Studio in 2006 as a collaborative platform

for design, art production, curation and idea formation. Common Space

combines both commissioned work and self-initiated projects, publishes art

books, produces exhibitions, events, websites and videos. The aim of the

studio is to stimulate the circulation of ideas and to find channels of

communication that interconnect various artists, designers and disciplines.

Santos is adjunct professor at Pratt Institute of the Arts, NY. Between 2000

and 2011 he was visiting artist at Sint-Lukas Academy in Brussels, adjunct

professor at the California College of Arts in San Francisco and guest lecturer

at the AIGA in Washington, DC.  Santos has also presented his design work

at Pecha Kucha NY.