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Jon "rejon" Phillips is an American engineer and business person working in technology, art and media culture. He founded and runs Openclipart through Fabricatorz, a design and technology company.

Life and work
He is noted for his work in Free Software, Open Source, and Free Culture. In 2002 he launched Inkscape, Openclipart (2004) (The Open Clip Art Library), and Open Font Library.

At Creative Commons he built business and community in the early years.

With Bassel Khartabil he built Aiki Framework to run Openclipart and Openfontlibrary. As part of that work, he co-founded with Safadi AikiLab the company in Singapore and AikiLab the nonprofit cultural hackerspace in Syria that focused on building Aiki Framework that remained open until the Arab Spring swept through Damascus.

He co-founded Qi hardware  which launched the Milkymist One video synthesizer and released the Ben Nanonote.

At FISL 12, Phillips presented the Milkymist One.

He worked as Community Director for the social network company Status.Net, founders of Identi.ca.

Between January 17 and January 21, 2011, as part of the Transmediale Festival, Phillips along with Christopher Adams, Michelle Thorne, Mick Fuzz, Adam Hyde, Alejandra Perez Nuñez, Bassel Safadi, Aleksandar Erkalovic and Barry Threw, wrote and released, "An Open Web" through Flossmanual's Booksprint writing process.

On August 16, 2011, the Institute for the Future published an interview between Bunnie Huang, Lyn Jeffery, David Li, Eric Pan and Jon Phillips titled, "Innovation spaces of the future: research notes on China's shanzhai meeting the Makers."

As part of Creative Commons Global Summit, in September 2011, Phillips organized the Sharism Makerlab Exhibition Sprint in Warsaw which included Mike Linksvayer, Bassel Khartabil, Michelle Thorne, Spencer Young, Nathan Kinkade and Christopher Adams.

On September 29, 2011, he ran an Open Source Workshop as part of Fabricatorz with Christopher Adams.

Freebassel Campaign
On March 15, 2012, Phillips' best friend, Fabricatorz founding member, and long time business partner, Bassel Khartabil was detained amid arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus, Syria.

In July 2012, Phillips, along with other friends and supporters of Bassel Khartabil, launched the Freebassel campaign to see to his safe release from Adra Prison in Damascus, Syria.

On March 21, 2013, Bassel won a Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award, which Phillips and Dana Trometer accepted on his behalf.

Art
In 2004, Phillips spoke about Open Source Art at the San Francisco Modern Art Museum (SFMOMA) with Greg Neimeyer and Neeru Paharia.

On February 13, 2009, Phillips co-curated the twin city project, Cantocore: Free on Board which Artslant stated the show, "not only investigates the nuanced layers of trade and culture between Guangzhou and San Francisco, but also incorporates translation/mis-translation, authenticity/reproduction, and the copy-of-a-copy-of-a-translation spirit."

In 2008, Phillips as a visiting artist spoke at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as part of Patrick Clancy and Gwen Widmer's final year of the longest running experimental program, Electromediascope. The event series was titled "Opening Networks".

From January 8 until January 28, 2011, artist Matt Hope with Phillips exhibited their project, the "Laoban Container" as part of The Border Show in Hong Kong. Artslant stated about the work, "Fabricated under close observation at two factories outside Guangzhou, the work consists of a massive steel front plate cut and welded to custom dimensions in Huizhou and 40 speaker drivers made by hand to custom dimensions in Panyu."

On October 18, 2014, Phillips spoke about the "Rise of the Superindividual" at the 7th Annual FUTUREPLACES festival in Porto, Portugal

At present
Phillips currently manages and runs Openclipart, Openfontlibrary, Fabricatorz and the Freebassel Campaign.