Projects

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  Datascan
  Modular Data Mapping, Auralization and Visualization Software
  Cancelled, Updated December 18, 2012

  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.

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  MESH.FM Project and Archive
  Experimental Media Streaming
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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."

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  Compaction
  Trash Compactor Temporary Space
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, 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.

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  Brainstorm Linux Computing Cluster
  Experimental Beowulf Computing Cluster
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, 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.

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  Realtime
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  UCDARNET
  University of California Digital Arts + Research Network
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  MESH.FM Sound System
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Infrastructures of Digital Design Conference
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012

  “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.

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  Mediabar
  Wireless Rule-Based Construction with Sound System
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Free and Open Source Software Contributions
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Inkscape
  Vector Graphics for the Masses
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Scale Journal
  Aesthetics and Computation Scholarly Journal
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012

  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.

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  CVS Book: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems
  Essays About Collaboration by Modern Cultural Producers
  Active, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  This book is a collection of essays by multiple cultural producers investigating collaborative, goal-oriented authorship that use modern technological systems and tools in order to facilitate their work.

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  Open Clip Art Library
  Public Domain Clip Art Community
  Active, Updated February 17, 2013, Official Site

  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.

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  South Korean Broadband Revolution
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

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  MediaExperiment.org
  Quantitative and Qualitative Media Research
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  GoPets
  Virtual Pet Social Network Service
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  The Create Project
  Sharing Between Open Creative Software Communities
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  ccHost
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, 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.

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  Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012

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  My Personal Wiki
  Active, Updated December 18, 2012, Wiki

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  Leonardo Journal Practicum
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Wiki

  Leonardo Magazine, with educational partners, the Center for New Media UC Berkeley and SFAI, are co-producing a DVD in connection with the 2006 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) International Symposium on Electronic Art and ZeroOne San Jose's New Media Pacific Rim Summit. This DVD and accompanying booklet will be packaged with the print version of Leonardo to be released next year.

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  DIGITAL SOUND & REMIX: From Bell to PodCasting
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Wiki

  Through assigned readings, discussion and the creation of sound-related projects, this course will explore the historical, conceptual, and artistic aspects of sound and remix. This course will also familiarize students with the basic concepts of audio and current hardware and software.

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  Overlap
  Collaborative Experimental Media Community
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site, Wiki

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  Creative Commons
  Open Content Licensing Non-Profit
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Open Font Library
  Collection of User-Generated Open Fonts for all to use
  Active, Updated February 17, 2013, Official Site

  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.

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  Event Map
  Interactive Web Event Patterns
  Cancelled, Updated December 18, 2012

  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.

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  Elements of Design I-III
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012

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  Developing a Buzz
  Networking, Press and Reviews for Artists
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Wiki

  Specifically, this course is to help students develop a project, get more connected - socially and technologically - and promote a project successfully - developing a buzz, getting press and reviews. Through the study of development, networking and publicity there will be an on-line (Internet-based/virtual) and an off-line (physical) emphasis threaded throughout the semester. The study of development will begin the course with a discussion of a student's selected project's goals, how to achieve them (development model, fund raising and grant writing), and planning a road map. The participants will then be taught how to set up a web domain (example:www.YOURPROJECTNAME.org), and then put up a basic web site, e-mail accounts, mailing list, blog, and a Wiki.

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  Libre Graphics Meeting
  Annual FLOSS Graphics Conference
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  World Wide Web Workshop
  Proposal, Updated December 18, 2012

  This workshop's primary goal is to empower each participant to construct basic standards compliant web-based media directed towards predefined goals. The course starts at the very beginning with the most fundamental concepts of the World Wide Web which are built upon throughout the workshop. These concepts are explored through direct hands-on construction of simple web pages with HTML markup for content and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual style, both written in a standard text editor. Next, participants learn how to wield Javascript, a lightweight public standard scripting language, to activate web content, check forms, and build basic on-line applications. Finally, simple database concepts and implementations are explored as a means to store, retrieve, and edit large quantities of data using the PHP programming language, file-based databases, and MySQL binary databases.

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  Let's Hack
  Down and Dirty Problem Solving
  Proposal, Updated December 18, 2012

  Publicly, "Hacking" stereotypically represents an evil deed committed by young "script kiddies" trying to harm other people's computers, fraudulently seeking passwords in order to steal money. While these weak descriptions are continually perpetuated, this course will teach the art of hacking: down and dirty problem solving by providing a general historical overview of hacking and its intersection with art. It more importantly will focus on how to use hacking in one's own art practice to quickly solve problems; the ethical and conceptual issues surrounding related topics will also be explored. Please Note: this course will not only present software-based hacking but other forms such as social and hardware hacking. Related projects by Critical Art Ensemble, Bureau of Inverse Technology and Electronic Civil Disobediance will be presented and built upon.

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  Gotmail
  Get Hotmail.com E-mail Programmatically
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  This software is used to get Hotmail.com account emails without user interaction.

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  Pick-up a Shovel Column
  Linux Format UK, 11 columns starting with issue 08
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  Linux Format UK

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  Licence to Create
  Linux Format UK, Issue 81, pp. 60-63
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

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  Ownterms.org
  Free Contracts
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Fabricatorz
  Sustainable Production Company in Beijing + San Francisco
  Active, Updated February 17, 2013, Official Site

  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.

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  The Open Library
  One Webpage Per Book
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  Working on some big pieces of this project initially through Creative Commons.

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  Introduction to Graphics: Pixel Pushers
  Introduction to Folly Digital Artists Handbook
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

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  Cantocore
  Artshows in Guangzhou and San Francisco
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, 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.

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  Stealth Speakers
  Independent Hidden Speakers
  Idea, Updated December 18, 2012

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  Solo Show
  First Major Solo Show
  Proposal, Updated December 18, 2012

  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.

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  Artonomics
  Economics + Metrics for Art
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, 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 investigates the relationship of art metrics and how they effect culture.

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  rejon.org Software
  That which powers rejon.org.
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  This is the software and code which powers this website.

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  IDEA
  IDea Every Afternoon
  Active, Updated December 18, 2012, 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.

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  Cantocore: Free On Board
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012

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  Laoban Speaker Workshop
  Laoban Custom Cultural Speaker
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Wiki

  The Laoban Speaker Workshop is set to create custom Laoban speakers with simple Chinese parts.

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  Virii
  Annual Computer Virus Certification
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Wiki

  Virii 2009 is an annual acknowledgment of the computer virus which has replicated the most, globally, for an annual year. The first Virii 2009 unique plaque, VIRII 2009 CONFICKER, is presented as a certified record of authenticity, framed for hanging on a wall in a secure location. Future certifications are to be only distributed as an annual unique plaque. It is entrusted to a collector to be stored or shown securely. The attached disc and samples contained on the disc are packed in a secure manner that only the artist, Jon Phillips, or his designated agents may discuss. Made for the Renegade Art Auction in Sonoma Sunday, September 29, 2009. The name Virii and Virii 2009 is Jon Phillips' trademark.

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  Status.Net
  Open Source Microblogging Service, Software and Company.
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site, Wiki

  StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain. With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.

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