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Editorial and mission advisory team.

Matt Hanson

Editorial director.
Hanson founded VSR after identifying an underserved need for the open content community through his creation of A Swarm of Angels, the open source feature film project. Hanson brings extensive editorial experience and first-hand knowledge of peer production to VSR’s mission to accelerate the open content area.
matthanson.net

Jon Philips

Advisor.
Philips is an artist, developer, and entrepreneur who has long been involved in the open source software and content communities, and until recently served full time as business and community development manager at Creative Commons. He has been instrumental in the development of ccSalons, Case Studies, Metrics and CC+ projects, and is developing media and arts projects through fabricatorz.com
rejon.org

Lev Manovich

Advisor.
Manovich is a leading theorist and academic in digital media. A Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California, his seminal book The Language of New Media, direction of the Software Studies Initiative, and creation of the pioneering Soft Cinema video project, place him at the forefront of current thinking in media futures.
manovich.net

Hugh Hancock

Advisor.
Hancock is a pioneering figure in Machinima, jointly coining the term in 1999. He has been working in the artform since its inception, released the first feature-length machinima, Bloodspell (CC-licensed), and is a founding member of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences.
strangecompany.org

Jamie King

Advisor.
King is an writer, activist, and documentarist concerned with new media, post-IP culture, and social organisation. As part of the League of Noble Peers he was responsible for Steal This Film I & II, and is currently working on VODO, a donation system for content distributed via filesharing networks.
jamie.com