User:Phillipsjd
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Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an open source developer, artist, designer, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. His projects, both collaborative and individual, have been shown internationally at the San Francisco Art Institute (2005), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Kyoto City University of Arts (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum's Digital Storytelling Conference (2004), UC-Berkeley's 040404 Conference (2004), USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is an active developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a cross-platform open source scalable vector graphics editor and is a project lead on the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org). Currently, he is writing/producing a book, "CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems," about collaborative authorship and open source development and produces a "local" journal, Scale, about remediation, aesthetics and computation.
Phillips completed his MFA in June of 2004 at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Lev Manovich (http://www.manovich.net/) 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 (http://www.patrickclancy.org/). He is affiliated with the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA, http://crca.ucsd.edu/), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [CAL(IT)2, http://calit2.net/], and University of California Digital Arts Research Network (UC DAR Net, http://ucdarnet.org/).
