Editors
SCALE Publishing is edited by a small core team. Each editor maintains an independent site; bios below are tailored for this imprint.
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 is co-founder and CEO of Phi and executive director of the Fabricatorz Foundation, and lives in Berlin. His work spans open culture (Open Clip Art Library), hardware, and long-running editorial projects—including SCALE’s 2019 weekly season and recent book-scale issues.
On SCALE: Volume 1 (2004) · 2019 weeklies · Multiplier · Sensorium · 2004 restoration
Clément Renaud
Clément Renaud works on how technological systems shape geography and everyday life—across engineering, urban research, and more than a decade of practice in China. He teaches on 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). For SCALE he co-edited (UN)LOCKED: Memories of Wuhan and writes on knowledge, infrastructure, and rights in the weekly and book programs.
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 algorithmic pipelines—often picturing artists, exhibitions, and audiences (relational portraiture). Past collaborations include projects with Jun Yang, Yao Jui-Chung, and Joi Ito. For SCALE he designed (UN)LOCKED: Memories of Wuhan and contributed to SCALE Multiplier.
On SCALE: Wuhan · Multiplier — Canny Valley