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)
Past
Education
  • University of California, San Diego
  • Kansas City Art Institute
  • The University of Texas at Austin
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Higher Education
Websites

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 2008Present (1 month)

  • Business Development and Community Liaison

    Creative Commons

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

    August 2008Present (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 2007Present (1 year 3 months)

    http://fabricatorz.com is on.

  • Executive Director

    mediaexperiment.org

    (Arts and Crafts industry)

    September 2005Present (3 years 3 months)

    http://mediaexperiment.org

  • Developer

    Inkscape

    (Higher Education industry)

    2002Present (6 years)

  • Artist

    Self-employed

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

    May 1979Present (29 years 7 months)

    The over and under-arching theme to my work.

  • Director

    Overlap.org

    (Arts and Crafts industry)

    August 2005November 2008 (3 years 4 months)

    http://overlap.org

  • Business Development and Community Manager

    Creative Commons

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

    September 2007August 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 2007September 2007 (9 months)

    http://www.creativecommons.org

  • Software Engineer

    Creative Commons

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

    September 2005January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

    http://www.creativecommons.org

  • Visiting Faculty

    San Francisco Art Institute

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

    September 2005June 2006 (10 months)

    http://www.sfai.edu/design

  • Developer

    Gopets

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

    20042005 (1 year)

  • Teaching Assistant

    University of California, San Diego

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

    September 2002May 2004 (1 year 9 months)

    http://visarts.ucsd.edu/


Jon Phillips’s Education

  • University of California, San Diego

    MFA, New Media Art, Computer Science, 20012004

    http://visarts.ucsd.edu/

  • Kansas City Art Institute

    BFA, new media art, art, 19982001

  • The University of Texas at Austin

    BA, rtf, 19971998


Additional Information

Jon Phillips’s Websites:

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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