Jon Phillips

Current

• Advisor at Overlap
• Business Development and Community Liaison at Creative Commons
• CEO at Fabricatorz

• Executive Director at mediaexperiment.org
• Developer at Inkscape
• Artist (Self-employed)

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Past

• Director at Overlap.org
• Business Development and Community Manager at Creative Commons
• Community and Business Developer at Creative Commons

• Software Engineer at Creative Commons
• Visiting Faculty at San Francisco Art Institute
• Developer at Gopets
• Teaching Assistant at University of California, San Diego

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Kansas City Art Institute
• The University of Texas at Austin

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Jon Phillips’s Summary

The most up-to-date bio is at http://www.rejon.org/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.

Jon Phillips’s Specialties:

community building, presentations, socializing, team building, experience

Jon Phillips’s Experience

• Advisor

  Overlap

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 month)

• Business Development and Community Liaison

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2008 — Present (4 months)

  Same jobs as when I had fulltime position of BizDev + Community Management, but not managing any large scale projects and mainly acting as portal to my universe and portfolio of contacts. :) The same gig, but less resposibilities.

• CEO

  Fabricatorz

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  http://fabricatorz.com is on.

• Executive Director

  mediaexperiment.org

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  http://mediaexperiment.org

• Developer

  Inkscape

  (Higher Education industry)

  2002 — Present (6 years)

• Artist

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)

  May 1979 — Present (29 years 7 months)

  The over and under-arching theme to my work.

• Director

  Overlap.org

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  August 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  http://overlap.org

• Business Development and Community Manager

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year)

  I am the human portal to Creative Commons. I handle business and community relations and manage several large projects.

• Community and Business Developer

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

  http://www.creativecommons.org

• Software Engineer

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  http://www.creativecommons.org

• Visiting Faculty

  San Francisco Art Institute

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

  http://www.sfai.edu/design

• Developer

  Gopets

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

• Teaching Assistant

  University of California, San Diego

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  http://visarts.ucsd.edu/

Jon Phillips’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  MFA, New Media Art, Computer Science, 2001 — 2004

  http://visarts.ucsd.edu/

• Kansas City Art Institute

  BFA, new media art, art, 1998 — 2001

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BA, rtf, 1997 — 1998

Additional Information

Jon Phillips’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Jon Phillips’s Interests:

community building, art, science, new media, social networks, china, korea, japan, asia, travel, badminton, internet

Jon Phillips’s Groups:

San Francisco Art Institute, Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA), ACM Siggraph, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, Creative Commons, California Institute for Technology and Telecommunications (CalIT2), Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA), University of California Digital Arts Research Network (UC DAR Net)

•    FLOSS Professional

Jon Phillips’s Honors:

Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, Nomination (Final Award Pending), 09/2005.
Travel Sponsorship to Desktop Developers' Conference: freedesktop.org, 07/2005.
UC GSA Grant for SCALE: UC Graduate Student Association Grant, 06/2004.
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.
Russell Grant: UCSD, 09/2002 – 05/2003.
CalIT2 Fellowship: UCSD, 09/2001 – 06/2002.
Kansas City Art Institute, Mentor Award: New Media, Kansas City Art Institute, 05/2001.
Outstanding Artist Scholarship: Kansas City Art Institute, 01/1999 – 05/2001.
Helen Walker Crowe Scholarship: Kansas City Art Institute, 09/2000 – 05/2001.
Siggraph Travel Scholarship: New Orleans, 08/2000.

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