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.