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Les Joynes is a contemporary visual artist and Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at the Columbia University. He is founder and director of Form Laboratory a nomadic intermedia “museum-within-a-museum”.

Working with intermedia processes media Joynes’ doctoral research (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 2012) investigates site through its found objects as well as the ontology of form/formless as observed through mediated process between different individuals. He has been visiting lecturer in visual art at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; University of California, Santa Barbara; Otis College of Art, Los Angeles; Lasalle College of Art, Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Art, National University of Singapore - and as Japanese Ministry of Culture & Education/MEXT Scholar at Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

He possesses an MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London; BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art, University of the Arts, London. He also has an M.Sc in international management from Boston University and MBA from California State University, San Luis Obispo. Recent publications include recent work he created in Singapore, Trace and the Transvisible, University of California, Irvine (Octopus, 2012).

Link to CV

Lecturing

Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
Lecturer to BFA and MFA, Spring, 2011

Treignac Projet, Limousin, France
Working with BFA students Parsons, and MFA students Goldmiths, London on Form Laboratory

University of California Santa Barbara, 2009, 2010
Visiting Artist Lecturer and MFA Semester critiques

LaSalle College of Art, Singapore, 2009
Artist lecture to MFA Program

Nanyang Academy of Art, Singapore, 2009
Aritst Lecture BFA and MFA Programs

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, 1999-2001
Fine Art Critiques to BA Fine Arts students in Sculpture Department

College Arts Association Conference 2009, 2011
Artist Mentor for professional development, CV and portfolio review

Cue Art Foundation, New York, 2008, 2009
Artist Moderator - and group leader for artist professional development program.


Selected Projects with BFA/ MFA students

2010 - Projects with students from Goldsmiths College, London, Parsons School of Art, Treignac Projet, France. Ten intermedia performances in France 2010 where I led fifteen BFA and MFA students and artists from Taiwan, USA, Germany, Mexico on intermedia projects in sculpture, video, and performance.

2009 - Projects with students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, National University of Singapore and LaSalle College of Art, Singapore

Trace in Singapore with twenty artists, photographers and dancers from Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Indonesia and Singapore including faculty and dance students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore and Lasalle School of Art, Singapore – in twelve night-time exterior spaces that were sites of impending transition – darkness filled spaces surrounded by illuminated block towers.


Teaching Philosophy

  • Building inter-disciplinary links that bridge the student’s learning process: challenging students perceptions across new media, philosophy, sciences, new media, sound, performance, drawing, history.
  • Consistently expose students to the unexpected, encouraging them to test the boundaries of function, and perception and explore new hybrids in art-making.
  • Focus on hybrid-thinking in group critique as well as individual dialogue with students to focus on the individual and collective abilities.
  • Encourage peer-network development.
  • Developing a global focus for practice - exploring international collaboration opportunities.

Program Development: click (here)

Interviews with Artists

Launched Artist Talk on behalf of Nordic Artist Centre, Norway in 2008. Founded Artist Oral History Archive in New York in 2007. List of interviews