Bio

Updated December 08, 2006 @ 04:20 PST

Full Bio

Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an artist, developer and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building communities and growing successful media projects. His work and research on Open Source Software and Content communities is presented internationally including at Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA, 2008), Wikimania Taipei (2007), Pixelodeon Conference AFI (LA, 2007), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum, USC AIM Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He helped launch Inkscape, an open source drawing tool in 2002, leads the Open Clip Art Library, and directs the experimental media-arts community Overlap.org. For the last three years he worked for Creative Commons where he built the business development strategy, worked with hundreds of businesses through Creative Commons 47+ international jurisdictions to integrate Creative Commons licensing and technologies, and managed globally successful projects such as ccSalons, the Case Studies, Metrics, and CC+ projects. He lives between San Francisco and China and is building up the Fabricatorz production company.

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 Creative Commons, Overlap.org, Mediaexperiment.org and is co-founder of Fabricatorz.com.

Contact Information

  • Phone
    • USA +1 510-499-0894
    • UK/EUROPE +44 79-6722-1636
    • CHINA+86 136-0282-8624
    • TAIWAN+886 09-2851-3443
  • E-mail
  • Chat & Instant Message
    • msn, aim, yahoo chat kidproto
    • jabber rejon@gristle.org
    • skype kidproto
    • sip rejon@ekiga.net
  • Curriculum Vitae
    • Full Information Updated November 26, 2006 [ html ] [ pdf ] [ ps ] [ odt ]
    • Short CV, Updated November 26, 2006 [ html ] [ pdf ] [ ps ] [ odt ]
  • Resume
    • Short Research, Design, & Freelance-focused Resume, Updated November 26, 2006 [ pdf ] [ ps ] [ odt ]

5 Sentence Bio

Jon Phillips (http://rejon.org) is an artist, developer and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building communities and growing successful media projects. His work and research on Open Source communities is presented internationally including at Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA, 2008), Wikimania Taipei (2007), Pixelodeon Conference AFI (LA, 2007), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum, USC AIM Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He helped launch Inkscape, an open source drawing tool in 2002, leads the Open Clip Art Library, and directs the experimental media-arts community Overlap.org. For the last three years with Creative Commons (CC) he built the companies business development strategies, worked with hundreds of businesses, and managed the globally successful ccSalons, the Case Studies, Metrics, and CC+ projects. He lives between San Francisco and China and is building up the Fabricatorz production company.

2 Sentence Bio

Jon Phillips is an artist, developer and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building communities and growing successful media projects. He helped launch Inkscape, an open source drawing tool in 2002, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies over the last three years and is currently growing the experimental media-arts community Overlap.org and production company, Fabricatorz.

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Sound Bites

NOTE: I’ve had multiple requests for sound bytes, so I decided to put some of them on my bio section for easier access.

  • “Its not about raising the individual boats, but the level of the water for all boats.” (10-2005)
  • “I’m invested in building communities and sustainable infrastructure.” (9-2005)
  • “Many artists are making objects, others are making systems which make objects, and I build communities which make the systems.” (9-2005)
  • “While software is an interesting medium, it is not nearly as interesting as the communities that forge ahead with ever-increasing version numbers.” (9-2005)

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Personal Notes

  • Headshots + Images
  • Born May 28, 1979, Effingham, Illinois, USA
  • Living in San Francisco/Bay Area.
  • Charis - This is a page dedicated to the life that my sister lived while here on Earth. She passed away Dec. 11, 2003. I love her very much! She has shaped my life in so many ways (and continues to do so)
  • Most Recent Bookmarks - I wrote a little script that copies over my bookmarks file every day.
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