Lee Jinjoon
Jinjoon Lee FRSA | |
|---|---|
 Jinjoon Lee | |
| Nationality |  South Korea |
| Education | University of Oxford, Royal College of Art, Seoul National University |
| Known for | contemporary art media art Sculpture/creative director |
| Notable work | Notable works of Jinjoon Lee |
| Website | Official Website |
Jinjoon Lee FRSA (이진준 born in Masan, South Korea)[1] is a professor at KAIST and contemporary artist.
Education[edit]
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[edit]
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 assistant 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.
Controversy[edit]
On May 26, 2024, Jinjoon Lee was publicly accused of extortion, abuse, and defrauding the Korean government by a former postdoctoral researcher at KAIST, who claimed that they were forced to send £15,777.39 to Jinjoon Lee's wife under threat of having their job offer revoked. The researcher also alleged that they had been fired in retaliation for the making a complaint.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "JinJoon Lee Ruskin School". Ruskin School. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
- ^ Lee, J. (2020). Empty garden : A liminoid journey to nowhere in somewhere (Thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ "Jinjoon Lee MRSS | Royal Society of Sculptors". Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ^ "[단독] 카이스트 조교수, '포닥 조건 금품 갈취' 주장 美 유명 트위터리안 고소 (in Korean)". Retrieved 2024-06-01.