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Jon Phillips (http://rejon.org) is an artist and developer devoted to contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. He is notable for creating communities, growing successful media projects and leading in the Free Software, Open Source and Open Content movements. His artwork, projects and research are presented internationally including at Cantocore Import/Export Guangzhou (2008), Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts (2008), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (2008), Inter-Society for Electronic Arts Singapore (ISEA, 2008), Wikimania Taipei (2007), Pixelodeon Conference American Film Institute (LA, 2007), Berkeley Museum’s Digital Culture 0101 Public Lecture (2006), SF MoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum, USC AIM Festival IV (2003), and the Institute for Contemporary Art London (2002).

At age 14, he started professionally working in the multimedia production industry on the early web by creating motion graphics, web projects, and film/video productions for STP and the Cyber-Site New Research Center. Later he created “digital happenings” and experimental media mixing software in Southern California with the MESH.FM soundsystem collective and open access journal, Scale. He helped launch Inkscape, an open source drawing tool in 2002 and co-founded the Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and the San Francisco-based experimental media label, Overlap.org. In 2005 he taught at San Francisco Art Institute in the Design + Technology department. From 2005 until 2008 he built the community + business development strategy for Creative Commons, worked with hundreds of businesses through Creative Commons 50+ international jurisdictions to integrate Creative Commons licensing, and managed globally successful projects such as ccSalons, the Case Studies, Metrics, and CC+ projects.

Phillips is published widely in Leonardo Journal, is a prior columnist for Linux Format, and has written for Wired Magazine. He is project lead for a soon to be released special project called the Public Domain Wiki Project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation from Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, Access Copyright, and Internet Archive. He lives between San Francisco and Beijing and is building up the Fabricatorz company projects while generating expansive new works bridging software culture, experimental media arts, and communities such as the Cantocore Art exhibitions and Laoban Open Soundsystem.

Phillips completed his MFA in June of 2004 at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Lev Manovich and additionally with Sheldon Brown, Geof Bowker, Jack Greenstein and Joseph Goguen. He completed a BFA, New Media, at the Kansas City Art Institute where he studied with Patrick Clancy. He is affiliated with Fabricatorz and is a part of the Creative Commons Network.

Jon Phillips (05/28/1979, Effingham, Illinois, USA). His parents are Douglas E. Phillips and Sally V. Phillips. His sister, Charis Phillips is deceased (August 23, 1977 - December 11, 2003). In China, he is known as 方力中 (Fang Li Zhong). He lives in San Francisco, Beijing, and Guangzhou, China.

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Jon Phillips is an artist and developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions and the Laoban Open Soundsystem in Beijing.

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方力中‧ 菲利浦丝是开放源代码开发者，艺术家，作家，教师和策划人。他有十二年建立与运作网络群体和计算机文化的经验，研究的范围包括合成文化和软件开发。他被邀请出席的国际会议和展览有：桌面开发者论坛（2005），旧金山现代美术馆（2004），东京大学（2004），韩国高科技研究院（2004），加州洛杉矶大学汉莫美术馆的数字讲故事论坛，加州伯克莱大学的040404论坛（2004），南加州大学的第四届AIM节日（2003），和ICA伦敦（2002）。他是INKSCAPE开放源的核心开发者（www.inkscape.org ）－－ INKSCAPE是一个矢量图形编辑软件；他设计了开放计算机图标图书馆（http://openclipart.org)；并正在编写他即将完成的书：《CVS: 共享，幻想和体制》。现在他在旧金山艺术学院设计与科技系任教，同时也是“创作共用组织“（www.creativecommons.org) 的开放源开发者。

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