Short CV – Full CV Available on Request, Updated November 13, 2006
Jonathan Phillips
205 Fair Oaks St
San Francisco, CA, USA 94110
USA: +1 510-499-0894
E-mail: jon@rejon.org
Website: http://www.rejon.org
Biography
Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an open source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. His involvements with mixing culture and software development have been shown internationally at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2006), Sun Yat-Sen University, Desktop Developers Conference (2006, 2005), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo, Korea's KAIST, UCLA Hammer Museum, UC-Berkeley's 040404 Conference, USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is a core Open Source developer advocate and developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a scalable vector graphics editor and on the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org), and is writing/producing a book, "CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems." Currently, he is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) in the Design+Technology department and is an Open Source developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org).
Education
University of California, San Diego, MFA: studied with Lev Manovich, 06/2004.
Kansas City Art Institute, BFA: studied with Patrick Clancy, 05/2001.
Performances & Events
Creative Commons Salon 1-10: Monthly meeting with well known speakers working in and around the ideas of Creative Commons, Shinesf.com, San Francisco, 03/2006 – present.
Overlap.org 1-3 with Christopher Willits, Flossin (Kid 606, Christopher Willits, and Zach Hill), Blevin Blectum: Hemlock, San Francisco, CA, 03/2006 – present.
SFAI Design+Technology Salon 1-3: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 10/2005 – present.
1st Open Source Pavilion: Siggraph.org 2006, Boston, MA, USA, 08/2006.
Pacific Rim New Media Summit (ISEA 2006): San Jose, CA, 07/2006.
iCommons iSummit: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 06/2006.
Massive 2004: San Diego, CA, 05/2004.
Rival Sound I & II at UC Irvine. 11/2002 and 04/2003.
RealTime 2.0: London, UK, 06/2002.
Cybersonica, Institute for Contemporary Art: London (ICA), London, UK, 06/2002.
Honors and Awards
Linux Journal's Best Open Source Solution (ccHost): Linux World San Francisco, 08/2006.
Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, Nomination (Final Award Pending), 09/2005.
UC Pacific Rim Research Grant: UC System-wide (UCOP), 03/2004 – 07/2004.
UCIRA Demonstration Grant: with Nathaniel Clark and Matt Hope, UCSD, 03/2003 – 03/2004.
Cal(IT)2 Fellowship: UCSD, 09/2001 – 06/2002.
Kansas City Art Institute, Mentor Award: New Media, Kansas City Art Institute, 05/2001.
Helen Walker Crowe Scholarship: Kansas City Art Institute, 09/2000 – 05/2001.
Presentations and Lectures
“Social Context and Digital Culture”: Digital Culture 0101Public Lecture and Exhibition Course, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, 10/2006.
Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit: Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, USA, 10/2006.
“CC Salons: Connecting Creators, Developers and Lawyers”: 1st CC Salon Beijing, 06/2006.
DVD Practicum and Leonardo Open House: Leonardo Office, San Francisco Art Institute, 04/2006.
“Contribute! Create!: Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, Create Project, and Creative Commons”: 1st Libre Graphics Meeting, http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/, Lyon, France, 03/2006.
“Open Source and Open Content: International Collaboration and Media Sharing”: Goldsmiths College in association with Liquid Culture Group, London, 03/2006.
“Release: Comtemporary Models of Versioning and Authorship”: Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Design, Guangzhou, China, 01/2006.
“Creative Commons and Open Source”: Hong Kong University, 12/2005.
“Open Source Paradigm Panel”: SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, USA, 11/2004.
“Current Projects and Research”: Sony Computer Science Lab (Ken Mogi's Lab) in association with Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 07/2004.
“California Digital Culture”: Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 07/2004.
“Current Projects and Research”: University of Tokyo, Computer Science, Tokyo, Japan, 07/2004.
“Current Projects and Research”: Gwangju Institute for Science and Technology (GIST), Networked Media Lab, Gwangju, South Korea, 06/2004.
Publications
“Licence to Create”: Linux Format UK, Issue 81, pp. 60-63, 07/2006.
“New Media in Seoul After Midnight”: Leonardo Journal, 9/2005.
“Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library”: SVG Open 2005, Enschede, Netherlands, 08/2005.
“Distributed Writing, or Geodiscursive Writing.” The Journal. Volume 1, Issue 1, 01/2004.
“Imagination is the Instrument of Survival: The Brainstorm Cluster.” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Volume 1, Issue 2, 09/2003.
Projects
ccHost (08/2005 – present). It is used by ccMixter (ccMixter.org). http://sf.net/projects/cctools.
Open Clip Art Library (03/2004 – present). http://www.openclipart.org
Scale Journal (01/2004 – present). http://scale.ucsd.edu
CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems (01/2004 – present). http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu
Inkscape, Open Source SVG Drawing Tool (11/2003 – Present). http://www.inkscape.org
Affiliations
San Francisco Art Institute: http://www.sfai.edu, SFAI, 06/2005 – Present.
Creative Commons: http://www.creativecommons.org, 09/2005 – Present.
References
Paul Klein, Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, paulklein@sfai.edu, 415-749-4589
Greg Niemeyer, Assistant Professor, UC-Berkeley, niemeyer@berkeley.edu, 510-593-9337
Lev Manovich, Professor, University of California, San Diego, manovich@ucsd.edu 858-822-1012
Patrick Clancy, Department Chair, Kansas City Art Institute, clinamen@earthlink.net, 816-363-6699