About

The Fabricatorz is a “open” production company that creates projects 50% of the time internally and then takes on external projects the other 50% of the time. We specialize in Open Source Software, Creative Commons licenses/technology, growing on-line and off-line communities in San Francisco and China.

The company builds upon the current roster of fabricatorz’ skillsets. The company currently consists of Jon Phillips with 14+ years of experience in new media production, the software industry, building communities and free/open software development. Brad Phillips delivers with his general production magic and a specific skillset in mobile development, 3D design and virtual reality production. Recently, in October 2009, security expert, Nicky Bourque joined the Fabricatorz roster, where he pushes innovative software and creative projects. The company has offices in San Francisco, Guangzhou and Beijing in order to serve as local interface for many forms of creative production. In these locations the team scales with new employees, adapting to each project.

For a listing of all projects, both active and completed, please see the /projects section of the site.

Services

International On-line and Off-line Community Building
Website Programming, Design and Development
Software Design, Development, and Management
Open Source + GNU/Linux Software Development
Open Content (Creative Commons-based projects)
International Business Development
Video + Audio Production
3D + Virtual Reality Production
Translation/Internationalization with emphasis on English and Chinese languages
Security Auditing and Analysis
Conversion from closed to open source development model
Object production/fabrication: Interface with Chinese production companies

People

Jon Phillips, Founder/Developer

Jon Phillips (rejon) is an artist and developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions and the Laoban Open Soundsystem in Beijing.

Nicky Bourque, Developer

Nicky Bourque is a San Francisco based software developer and security consultant. He has completed a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is currently a freelance software developer and artist working on WikiMagazine and AutoStat. His interests include digital media, secure coding, and new and emerging arts.

Brad Phillips, Developer

Brad Phillips is a developer and new media artist dealing in all forms of digital art. Having 4+ years of experience in 3D and interactive digital art creation and nearly 10 years of music performance and audio editing experience, much of his current work attempts to treat audio as an integral part of an interactive virtual experience. His interactive artwork developed the company (http://semiautomatic3d.com) and has been publicly shown most recently at the spring 2008 UIC Art Department show. Chicago Public Radio’s weekly program, “Hello Beautiful“, featured Phillips’ work in spring 2008.

Brad graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May of 2008 with a degree in Electronic Visualization where he studied with Daria Tsoupikova, Sabrina Raaf (http://raaf.org), and Daniel Sauter (http://daniel-sauter.com/). His specialties include interactive environment development, virtual reality, processing, music performance, and audio production.

Florica Vlad, Assistant

Florica Vlad is interested in visual media, web theory and community organization. A graduate of the Film and Television Department at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, with a minor in Journalism and Communications, Florica has written and directed her own short films and has collaborated with media theorist and writer Douglas Rushkoff on a promotional film for his book, Life Inc. In addition to her work in film, Florica has created interactive physical projects. Having completed her graduate studies in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Florica gained exposure to physical computing, new media arts and design. The Pianocktail, an interactive cocktail-making piano, she built with Oscar Torres, was featured in MAKE Magazine’s Best In Show category at the Interactive Telecommunications Program Winter Show. Florica was introduced to community building, public outreach and open-source advocacy while working with the New York collective ShiftSpace, based on an open-source meta-web platform allowing users to annotate, remix, shift and share any webpage, anywhere. She also assists Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, a San Francisco based non-profit media arts center.