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Jon Phillips is founder and developer of Fabricatorz, a global production company fabricating total creative and commercial projects primarily in San Francisco, Beijing, and on the Web with clients such as Google, Mozilla, Creative Commons, Modern Media, and F2 Gallery. With Bassel Safadi in 2010 he co-founded Aiki Lab in Singapore, the Aiki Lab Cultural Center in Damascus and the Aiki Framework Open Source Web Software. Back in 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, founded the Open Clip Art Library (2004), taught design+technology at San Francisco Art Institute, built Creative Commons community and business development from 2005 until 2009 and directed the community for the social network company, Status.Net. In 2009, he built Qi Hardware (is Copyleft Hardware) with Wolfgang Spraul, the Laoban Soundsystem with artist Matt Hope.

At age 14, he began professionally working in multimedia production for Steve Twitchell Production and while an undergraduate he ran creative services for startup, Cyber-Site New Research Center. In graduate school 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 like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Disney through Creative Commons 60+ international jurisdictions to integrate Creative Commons licensing, and managed globally successful projects such as ccSalons, the Case Studies initiative, Metrics, and CC+ projects. He completed the special project, the Public Domain Wiki, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation from Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, Access Copyright, and Internet Archive.

Phillips is published widely on the Web, in Leonardo Journal, is a prior columnist for Linux Format, and has written for Wired Magazine. 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. Recent projects include the Cantocore Art exhibitions, the Laoban Open Sound System, and Acawiki Community Research Paper Website.

Phillips completed his MFA in June of 2004 at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with cultural analytics theorist Lev Manovich and additionally with Sheldon Brown, Geof Bowker, Jack Greenstein and the late computer science pioneer, 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). On the Internet, his aliases are rejon and kidproto. Phillips grew up in Columbia, Missouri, USA. He presently lives in San Francisco and Beijing, China.

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Jon Phillips is founder and developer of Fabricatorz LLC, a global production company fabricating total creative and commercial projects primarily in San Francisco, Beijing, and on the Web with clients such as Google, Mozilla, Creative Commons, Modern Media, and F2 Gallery. With Bassel Safadi in 2010 he co-founded Aiki Lab in Singapore, the Aiki Lab Hackserspace + Cultural Center in Damascus and the Aiki Framework Open Source Web Software. Back in 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, founded the Open Clip Art Library (2004), taught design+technology at San Francisco Art Institute, built Creative Commons’ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and directed the community for Status.Net (Identi.ca). Since 2009 in China, he builds Qi Hardware (is Copyleft Hardware) with Wolfgang Spraul, the Laoban Soundsystem with artist Matt Hope and with Isaac Mao and Christopher Adams he leads the Sharism project.

Chinese Bio

Jon Phillips王力中是Fabricatorz有限责任公司的发起人和开发人员。Fabricatorz是一个全球性的创意产业制作公司，主要致力于创新和商业项目，主要分支机构设在旧金山和北京，客户则包括谷歌、火狐浏览器（谋职网络）、知识共享Creative Commons、现代传播和F2画廊。2010年王力中和Bassel Safadi在新加坡创办了Aiki Lab品牌。Aiki Lab既是骇客空间又是文化中心，位于大马士革。Aiki Framework则是开源的网络软件。此外，Jon Phillips王力中还曾于2002年启动了开源的绘画工具Inkscape，以及于2004年成立了Open Clip Art Library。他曾在旧金山艺术学院教授设计与科技，也于2005至2008年为知识共享Creative Commons建立社群并任商业发展策略专员，并任Status.Net (Identi.ca)的社群总监。2009年他将工作重心转移至中国，与Wolfgang Spraul一起建立了开源的硬件产品Qi气硬件，与艺术家Matt Hope一起建立了LaoBan老板牌音响系统，与Isaac Mao毛向辉和李昕Christopher Adams一起共同运营”分享主义Sharism“项目。

السيرة الذاتية بأربع جمل

جون فيليبس يعمل في مجال التطوير الإجتماعي والإقتصادي. وقد شارك في عام 2002 في إطلاق أداة الرسم مفتوحة المصدر إنكسكيب ( inkscape) وقام بتأسيس مكتبة الرسومات العامة Open Clip Art. وقد قام بين عامي 2005 و 2008 بالعمل كمسؤول تطوير اقتصادي وعلاقات عامة لمؤسسة المشاع الإبداعي ( Creative Commons )، وهو حالياً زميل للمنظمة. كما أنه يعمل على تطوير شركة الإعلام فابيركاتورز ( Fabricatorz )، ومعارض ( Cantocore ) للفن، وأنظمة صوت ليوبان، كما يشارك في إطلاق مشروع بيئة التدوين المصغر (Status.Net). كما أنه مشهور ببناء علاقات عمل دولية من خلال قيامه بتطوير نظم إقتصادية حديثة في آسيا وخاصة في الصين، كما يسوق لمفاهيم التسويق المنفتح.

Vietnam Bio

dựng và sản xuất mở toàn cầu với sự sáng tạo và những dự án thương mại chủ yếu giữa San Francisco, Bắc Kinh và the Web. Năm 2010, cùng với Bassel Safadi, đồng sáng lập Aiki lab ở Singapore, Aiki lab Cultural Center ở Damascus and Aiki Framework Open Source Web Software. Năm 2002,
Jon đã hổ trợ và cho ra đời công cụ vẽ nguồn mở, Inkscape, sáng lập bởi Open Clip Art Library(2004), thuyết giảng thiết kế và công nghệ tại San Francisco Art Institute, xây dựng cộng đồng và doanh nghiệp phát triển chiến lược Creative Commons từ năm 2005 đến 2008 và là giám đốc cộng đồng
cho Status.Net (Identi.ca). Từ năm 2009 tại Trung Quốc, Jon đã xây dựng nên Qi Hardwar (Copyleft Hardware) là giám đốc cộng đồng cho Status.Net (Identi.ca). Tvới Wolfgang Spraul, Laoban Soundsystem với nghệ sĩ Matt Hope và với Isaac Mao và Christopher Adams, ông cũng là người đầu tàu
của dự án Sharism.

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