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Quick Links — { Artonomics Brainstorm Linux Computing Cluster Cantocore ccHost Compaction Creative Commons Datascan Event Map Fabricatorz Free and Open Source Software Contributions GoPets Gotmail IDEA Infrastructures of Digital Design Conference Inkscape Libre Graphics Meeting Mediabar MediaExperiment.org MESH.FM Project and Archive MESH.FM Sound System Open Clip Art Library Open Font Library Overlap Ownterms.org Realtime rejon.org Software Scale Journal Solo Show Stealth Speakers The Create Project The Open Library UCDARNET }

Artonomics
Economics + Metrics for Art
Active, Updated January 9, 2009, Official Site
The first piece released during the Cantocore Import/Export show pulled economic data about Guangzhou and China from Wikipedia entries and displayed it in realtime. Further work on this project will be to investigate the relationship of art metrics and how they effect culture
Brainstorm Linux Computing Cluster
Experimental Beowulf Computing Cluster
Completed, Updated February 17, 2009, Official Site
During the year-long MESH.FM series of events, one of my students whom worked at a large pharmaceuticals company, donated 30+ company-deemed-obsolete computers to myself in support of MESH's research. MESH.FM members decided that these computers would best be used to further investigate cluster computing and supercomputing, and what it could be used for experimentally. The cluster was to be used to do research on itself. Thus, this project dealt with learning how to configure many old computers into a networked cluster computer — something much more valuable than each old computers. Later the "brainstorm cluster" was used by Nathaniel Clark for his SKALD Sound War for several experimental music conferences. Since this activity, the computers have been donated to others whom need them more.
Cantocore
Artshows in Guangzhou and San Francisco
Completed, Updated May 27, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
The Cantocore Import/Export exhibition examines, through applied art practice, the relationship between import and export of culture between Guangzhou and San Francisco by asking a simple phrase: Are you Cantocore? Guangzhou, also called Canton, is the third most populous city in China and its province, Guangdong, is a major manufacturer of textiles and electronics for export to the United States. San Francisco has the largest import of Chinese immigrants of any US city, primarily from the Guangdong province. Chinese immigrants also created the largest Chinatown in North America in San Francisco. However, understanding the conceptual framework of Cantocore is not limited to geographic divisions, nor reductive dichotomies driven by post-colonial stereotypes such as East vs. West, nor Olympic nationalism pridefully paramount in China vs. US “non-political” sports matches. Cantocore is the reality of life versus the theory set forth by jurisdictions where people live.
ccHost
Completed, Updated April 13, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
ccHost is an Open Source project started by Creative Commons that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaborating, sharing, and storing multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata. It is used by ccMixter, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and other sites.
Compaction
Trash Compactor Temporary Space
Completed, Updated December 4, 2008, Official Site
A Month of COMPACTION consisted of renting a large industrial waste container and depositing it in an empty architecturally fragmented public space at the University of California, San Diego. During the month of compaction many activities took place. From a grind-core band to an installed online Internet station to many sound and video performances, the gathering of people mirrored the gathering of artifacts similar to the container's initial prescribed functionality. Please visit the website to view documentation and writings about the project.
Creative Commons
Open Content Licensing Non-Profit
Completed, Updated April 25, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
I worked for Creative Commons for approximately 3 years, initially as a Software Engineer, and then moved into a role as a community and business development manager to specifically push Open Source development surrounding Creative Commons licenses and standards. I worked directly worked with major technology companies around the world such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Disney, Facebook, BBC, and so on.
Datascan
Modular Data Mapping, Auralization and Visualization Software
Cancelled, Updated December 31, 2008
DataScan is a software project that dynamically renders information graphically in realtime. It is a visualization system whereby the form and function, data and representation are separated. It uses live data feeds harvested from the internet. Data gathered could be weather forecasts for different locales on the planet, news stories from the Associated Press, or any type of live electronic or sensor data that can be described in terms of an XML (Extensible Markup Language) hierarchical data format. This includes websites (HTML), webpages, images, pdf documents, files, and so forth. Anything that can be loaded into your web browser is fair game for harvesting.
Event Map
Interactive Web Event Patterns
Proposal, Updated December 31, 2008
The goal of the Event Map project is to create an interactive map for people to find various events based upon specific search criteria such as time, location, and the type of event. Initially, this will be a simple web-based system for geographically locating events around the world and will evolve to include more intelligent systems for plotting "event patterns" to help coordinate and catalyze different interactions between people and events. For example, one could visit a brand new city such as Amsterdam, and use a web browser to access the Event Map to enter in one's present local address, current interests like food, new media and network, and time available from 7 - 10 PM. Then, one is presented with a visual map depicting the various events that fit this description within a default 10 square Kilometer radius. The final stage of this project will be to add a deeper peer review system so that individuals may help each other by reviewing specific events.
Fabricatorz
Sustainable Production Company in Beijing + San Francisco
Active, Updated May 11, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
The Fabricatorz is an “open” production company specializing in Open Source Software, Creative Commons licenses/technology, growing on-line and off-line communities in San Francisco and China.
Free and Open Source Software Contributions
Completed, Updated May 27, 2009, Official Site
This is a place for various contributions to different Open Source projects. I have been providing some smaller patches to different projects, and sometimes it takes too long for them to get integrated into projects. Also, I am including some other code here that might not ever get into a project.
GoPets
Virtual Pet Social Network Service
Completed, Updated December 4, 2008, Official Site
For GoPetslive.com, a Seoul, Korea based company, my skills were contracted to advise this young company of development strategies for promoting Open Source philosophies in their project. The current decision to make money as a business comes from the provision of a service to users for a small fee. Unlike common American games, the client software is given away for free with confidence that a user will find it valuable to purchase a service above and beyond what the free client provides.
Gotmail
Get Hotmail.com E-mail Programmatically
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
This software is used to get Hotmail.com account emails without user interaction.
IDEA
IDea Every Afternoon
Active, Updated May 27, 2009, Wiki
The goal of this project is to create 1 idea a day for the year of 2009 and every year afterwards. For this first year, every idea for 365 days is to be documented and the 365 ideas will be collected and published. The idea, microblog posts during each day, and then associated blog posts from rejon.org during 2009 will be used on each page of the IDEA book.
Infrastructures of Digital Design Conference
Completed, Updated December 4, 2008
“A Graduate Symposium on Design, Analysis, and Tools in an Emergent Digital Culture,” is how the conference was promoted. I initiated the development of this event (another context) and then, along with 4 others, organized this international conference, received seed funding from the UC Digital Cultures Project and secured above and beyond matching funds from UCSD. International participation included Tijuana, Mexico’s Nortec Collective, the Nina Eidsheim Trio, and MESH.FM.
Inkscape
Vector Graphics for the Masses
Completed, Updated March 31, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
This is a dynamic project that got me into Open Source Software development. I have been involved with the project since its founding, but am not currently active in my contributions. This tool is a major missing type of application (vector editor, like Adobe Illustrator) in the landscape of linux design software.
Libre Graphics Meeting
Annual FLOSS Graphics Conference
Active, Updated May 27, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
Participated, Fundraised and coordinated through the project I co-founded, the Create Project. This conference brings together Free and Open Source Software developers in order to collaborate between projects on standards.
Mediabar
Wireless Rule-Based Construction with Sound System
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
A modular bar that integrates drinking services, wireless internet, four high power full range portable cubelike speakers, and other mobile modular constructions, all built and designed according to a simple rule based system out of light-weight aluminum and chipboard (OSB). It is modular + portable + service-oriented + salon-based.
MediaExperiment.org
Quantitative and Qualitative Media Research
Completed, Updated March 22, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
MediaExperiment.org is a multi-year series of projects and events expanding outward from San Francisco and Guangzhou that experiment with live media.
MESH.FM Project and Archive
Experimental Media Streaming
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
This is the archive site for MESH.FM, the original experimental media streaming media community and webcasting station. Here is the original explanation of this project: "MESH.FM strives to create a context for participants to experiment conceptually, technologically, and socially in an informal environment. MESH.FM provides input into activities for anyone at an event by providing multiple paths for MESHing: Mixing, Editing, Sampling, and Harvesting of media and experiences."
MESH.FM Sound System
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
In order to create many contexts for MESH.FM events, conferences, and large scale events like USC's AIM IV festival, the construction of the MESH.FM Sound System commenced. The project received funding by way of many grants, donations, and personal hard work by several people. Since the last MESH.FM event sometime in spring 2004, the sound system has since been sold to a third party whom operate it as the free sound system.
Open Clip Art Library
Public Domain Clip Art Community
Active, Updated December 31, 2008, Official Site, Wiki
This project has the goal of creating a free archive of clip art that can be used with free software, closed software, distributed with various software distributions, or be used in graphic design compositions.
Open Font Library
Active, Updated May 27, 2009, Official Site, Wiki
The goal of the Open Font Library is to collect public domain fonts created by people around the world to be used for any purpose.
Overlap
Collaborative Experimental Media Community
Active, Updated December 31, 2008, Official Site, Wiki
Ownterms.org
Free Contracts
Completed, Updated April 13, 2009, Official Site
The goal of this project is to create generic forms, terms of service and other tools for helping others apply free and open ideology to more than just licenses.
Realtime
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
RealTime existed as a set of events focusing on the ethos of real time determinism where the participants existing as closely to a prescribed actual event, people participating and resources available in a space are foregrounded instead of the normal artist's production of artwork, performance and formal arrangement of strongly controlled variables. Whereas a traditional byproduct of a contemporary creative act is displayed in a space (an artifact), RealTime enforced the real existence of people working in a space in participation with others to create some "thing" in real time.
rejon.org Software
That which powers rejon.org.
Active, Updated December 31, 2008, Official Site
This is the software and code which powers this website.
Scale Journal
Aesthetics and Computation Scholarly Journal
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
SCALE is a monthly "local" publication about aesthetics and computation. It is distributed in print and PDF. It is currently classified as completed, but might be revived in the future. The journal featured articles by Lev Manovich and Joseph Goguen and others.
Solo Show
First Major Solo Show
Active, Updated December 31, 2008
Possibly the hardest challenge for me is to create a solo show featuring works where the overall production is signed by myself, and majorly produced by myself.
Stealth Speakers
Independent Hidden Speakers
Idea, Updated December 30, 2008
The Create Project
Sharing Between Open Creative Software Communities
Active, Updated December 31, 2008, Official Site, Wiki
Creative Free and Open Source projects such as Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Audacity, Open Clip Art Library and others are highly successful projects which produce much video, audio, illustrations, photos, and other content. However, much code, media, and infrastructure are produced by each project somewhat independently which could be shared inter-project. For example, several of the aforementioned applications have their own brush types, color preferences, preferred media storage locations, keyboard shortcuts and file format converters. Sharing these resources saves developer time, increases productivity, and contributes to an overall improved user experience. Because of this overlap and the similarity of media, there is need to work together on standards, promotions, and inter-community plans. The Create Project's goal is to catalyze communication and facilitate sharing between Free and Open Source creative software communities by providing a third-party space for shared infrastructure.
The Open Library
One Webpage Per Book
Completed, Updated May 27, 2009, Official Site
Working on some big pieces of this project initially through Creative Commons.
UCDARNET
University of California Digital Arts + Research Network
Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site
I programmed (Database Programming and Design) the University of California Digital Arts Research Network's website infrastructure. Their new website features a complete database solution to power events, news, and an internal members-only site. The site also features a custom content management system (CMS) I built from the ground up using common Open Source Software.