Editors
SCALE Publishing is edited by a small core team anchored in the Fabricatorz Foundation network—UCSD (2004), Qi Hardware (2019–2020), and the book imprint (2021–today). Each editor maintains an independent site; bios below are tailored for SCALE and distilled from their public work.
Jonathan Phillips
Jonathan Phillips co-founded SCALE in 2004 at UC San Diego with Patrick W. Deegan, launching a monthly journal of aesthetics and computation at scale.ucsd.edu. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts (New Media) from UCSD (2004) and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (2001). He relaunched SCALE as a weekly program through Qi Hardware in 2019, steered the Cryptology workshop in Shenzhen (2020), and shepherded the Wuhan, Multiplier, and Sensorium book releases. He is co-founder and CEO of Phi—which now carries Qi Hardware and Qiware—and executive director of the Fabricatorz Foundation, where SCALE Publishing remains. He lives in Berlin; his work spans open culture (Open Clip Art Library), hardware, and long-running editorial projects.
On SCALE: SCALE 2004 · SCALE 2019 · Multiplier · Sensorium · 2004 restoration
Clément Renaud
Clément Renaud treats the computer as a writing system that organizes our worlds—across engineering, urban research, and practice in China since 2008. He teaches Chinese cities at Sciences Po’s Urban School, co-founded the Center for Blockchain and Generative Culture at City University of Hong Kong, and serves on the advisory board of the Fabricatorz Foundation. He is the author of Realtime: Making Digital China (EPFL Press) and is writing a history of computers from Shenzhen. For SCALE he co-organized Cryptology (Shenzhen, 2020), co-edited (UN)LOCKED: Memories of Wuhan with Dino Ge Zhang from a February 2020 open call during lockdown, contributed to SCALE Multiplier, and appeared in the 2019 weekly season.
On SCALE: Wuhan · Multiplier — Knowledge etc. · 2019 Week 7 · 2019 overview
Christopher Adams
Christopher Adams is an art producer and computer programmer based in Taipei. He builds software for the web, blockchain, and distributed systems, and works as a photographer and visual artist across film, digital, and AI—often picturing artists, exhibitions, and audiences (relational portraiture). Past projects include Launch Stage (Taipei Dangdai), All the Color in the World with Jun Yang, Altar Space with Yao Jui-Chung, and FREESOULS with Joi Ito; his work has appeared at MoCA Taipei, Ars Electronica, transmediale, and related venues. For SCALE he designed (UN)LOCKED: Memories of Wuhan (2021, CC0), contributed to SCALE Multiplier, and builds open archive tools—including the ArtCrimes site at graffiti.org for the Fabricatorz network.
On SCALE: Wuhan · Multiplier — Canny Valley