Lee Jinjoon

In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Jinjoon Lee
FRSA
Jinjoon Lee
NationalitySouth Korea South Korea
EducationUniversity of Oxford,
Royal College of Art,
Seoul National University
Known forcontemporary art
media art
Sculpture/creative director
Notable workNotable works of Jinjoon Lee
WebsiteOfficial Website

Jinjoon Lee FRSA (이진준 born in Masan, South Korea)[1] is a professor at KAIST and contemporary artist and speculative designer.

Education

After graduating from the Business School of Seoul National University in 2001, he obtained a BFA(2005) and an MFA(2009) in Sculpture from SNU. He then went on to pursue a master's degree(2017) in Moving Image(Jane and Louise Wilson) and Design Interaction (Anthony Dunne) at the Royal College of Art in London, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Fine Art, and St Hugh's College,University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis was titled Empty Garden: A Liminoid Journey to Nowhere in Somewhere (2020).[2]

Career

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). Lee's studio is perhaps best known for the public media sculpture They,[3] which was permanently installed at Digital Media City, Seoul in 2010. He is currently an associate professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Art and Design. He is the founding director of the KAIST Art and Technology Center.

References

  1. ^ "JinJoon Lee Ruskin School". Ruskin School. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  2. ^ Lee, J. (2020). Empty garden : A liminoid journey to nowhere in somewhere (Thesis). University of Oxford.
  3. ^ "Jinjoon Lee MRSS | Royal Society of Sculptors". Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 2023-08-27.