Biography
Les Joynes
A scholar of Visual Cultures at Columbia University, Les examines models for interdisciplinary deliverables between the arts and education, philosophy and management. At the Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship Les worked with Columbia MBAs to innovate creative strategies for the Mayor’s Office of the City of New York. Trained in management and the arts Les most is recently guest professor teaching Cultural Entrepreneurship at Peking University's Institute for Cultural Industries in Beijing. Since 2013 Les is Assitant Professor in the School of Art at Renmin University’s ISS Summer Program teaching Modern and Contemporary art.
He has lectured on cross-cultural collaboration at Columbia University Global Center Beijing; Cambridge University; University of the Arts London; University of California Santa Barbara; University of Coventry; Bard Smolny College, St. Petersburg; La Salle School of Art, Singapore; and Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing;
Les has advised multinational clients on global strategy including GE, 3M, GM, Du Pont, Dow Chemical, Bayer AG. He was US Department of State sponsored ACMS Field Research Fellow initiating the first research on US cooperation in arts in higher education in Mongolia.
Les is recipient of the University of the Arts London (UAL) Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation Fellowship, the Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Award for Mongolia (2014), Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Mission China Award (2017), The Japan Ministry of Culture Monbusho Scholarship, the Taiwan Ministry of Education Huayu Scholarship and is selected as US ZERO1: Art and Technology Artist to design and build educational workshops and courses exploring new media and performance.
Recent publications including: “FormLAB: Interfacing Technology with Site” (2019) ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea and “The Artist-centric model in museums” (2018) in Looking to New Institutional Models: China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century, Ching, N and Tanner, L, (eds), Long Museum, Shanghai. He serves on the Editorial Board for the peer-reviewed art journal ProjectAnywhere, at University of Melbourne, Australia and Parsons School of Art.
For more information please contact Les at Joynes@tc.columbia.edu.
Above Les presenting plenary keynote on arts and entrepreneurship to the doctoral program, School of Art, Peking University, Beijing 2018.
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