Clinker | BIOGRAPHY | CURRICULUM VITAE



CLINKER
| BIOGRAPHY

Gary James Joynes, also known by his performing moniker Clinker, has been active in the electronic and experimental music performance community for years. He has more recently embarked on a broader artistic exploration using his analog synthesizers and custom made machines to create visual sound as photograph/drawing/sculpture hybrids along with immersive and unending installation environments for reflection and deep listening/viewing experiences.
 
His latest live cinema work Peregrination was recently included in the 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. The most recent chapter in Joynes' visual catalog presented a solo exhibition entitled Topographic Sound at Edmonton's dc3 Art Projects in early 2013 and featured his critically acclaimed work Ouroboros which had its world premiere at Toronto's Koffler Centre of the Arts international exhibition Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling the Mandala in September 2011. His sound and visual installation Frequency Painting: 12 Tones premiered at the Latitude 53 Art Gallery in January 2011. Soundbursting No. 1, was featured at Edmonton's Harcourt House main gallery space from March 1 to April 14, 2012.
 
Clinker's Live Cinema work On the Other Side... was commissioned by the 2008 International Leonard Cohen Festival and has toured internationally. A film score for the National Film Board of Canada's award winning feature documentary Dirt was composed by Clinker and premiered at the Vancouver DOXA Festival in May 2008. He was selected to open the Montreal MUTEK Festival 8th. Edition with his 2007 Live Cinema performance work Provody.
 
Clinker's full-length audio work entitled On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen) was released to critical acclaim on the Los Angeles Sound Art Label Dragon's Eye Recordings in January of 2009. Through the Fall/Winter of 2009, Clinker was an artist in residence at The Banff Centre of the Arts, advancing new ideas in visual sound and music which has now become known as the Frequency Painting Series.
 
Recent performances include the SoundsLike Audio Art Festival (Saskatoon), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Koffler Centre (Toronto), The Banff Centre, Electric Fields (Ottawa), Mountain Computer Music Festival (Montana), Roulette Mixology Festival (New York), Soundasaurus 1 & 2 (Calgary), and the MUTEK_10 Festival (Montreal).
 
The last few years have seen Clinker's sound and video work performed and exhibited in Canada and abroad in festivals and events including Soundfjord re/flux Sublimated Landscape / Sonic Topology @ ICA London (London, UK), Emmedia Sonic Boom 2009 (Calgary), The Banff Centre – Interactive Screen (2008 & 2007 editions) and the 2008 Leonard Cohen International Festival, Tanzstartklar Festival 2008 (Graz, Austria), New Forms Festival 2007 & 2003 (Vancouver), Sprawl – Interplay_4 Festival 2007 (Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Bristol), Sea Of Sound Festival 2005 (The Works – Edmonton), MUTEK Le Placard Festival 2005 (Montreal), and Standart 2003 (Madrid, Spain).


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SELECTED PERFORMANCES

Soundasaurus Festival | Peregrination (Live Cinema)
Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, AB | November 14, 2013

SoundsLike Festival | Peregrination (Live Cinema)
AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK | July 27. 2013

Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS) Conference | Peregrination (Live Cinema)
Waterton Opera House, Waterton, AB | June 8, 2013

dc3 Art Projects | Peregrination (Live Cinema)
March 7, 2013, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Art Ignite Allumage Festival | Clinker – On the Other Side…
February 2, 2013, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art | Peregrination (Live Cinema)
January 25 & 27, 2013, Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Banff Centre for the Arts – Ouroboros (Live)
December 15, 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Koffler Centre of the Arts – Clinker On the Other Side…
Toronto Underground Cinema, September 25, 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Spaces and Places: Visioning McLuhan@100
Clinker + Dr. Scott Smallwood + Dr. Shawn Pinchbeck, June 23, 2011

Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Evidence (Dr. Scott Smallwood + Stephan Moore) and Vector Rails (Clinker + Dr. Adam Tindale) April 2, 2011, Convocation Hall, U of A, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

High Performance Rodeo – Vector Rails (Clinker + Dr. Adam Tindale), January 21, 2011 Epcor Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Electric Fields Festival of Electronic Art and Sound
Clinker On the Other Side… November 5, 2010
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

MCMF 2010 – Mountain Computer Music Festival
Clinker On the Other Side… accompanied by Dr. Charles Nichols, September 10, 2010 University of Montana Missoula, Montana, USA

Roulette Mixology Festival
Clinker On the Other Side… May 13, 2010
New York, NY, USA

High Performance Rodeo
Vector Rails (Clinker + Dr. Adam Tindale), January 22, 2010
Epcor Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

MUTEK Festival (10th Anniversary)
Clinker – On the Other Side… May 28, 2009
Metropolis, Montreal, QC, Canada

Emmedia Sonic Boom Festival
Clinker – On the Other Side…, March 20, 2009
Calgary Space Science Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Aswang Choreo-Lab @tendance Contemporary Dance
Choreography by Christina Medina
Music by Clinker, Aphex Twin and Gerhard Nierhhaus, October 2-4, 2008
Tanz & Theater Zentrum, Graz, Austria

Tanzstartklar Festival
Aswang Choreo-Lab @tendance Contemporary Dance
September 4, 2008, Graz, Austria

The Banff Centre Interactive Screen
Clinker – On the Other Side… August 25, 2008
Telus Studio Theatre, Banff, Alberta, Canada

International Leonard Cohen Festival
Clinker On the Other Side… July 25 + 27, 2008
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

New Forms Festival
Clinker presents Provody, September 12, 2007
Scotia Bank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Banff Centre Interactive Screen
Clinker presents Provody, August 13, 2007
Bison, Banff, Alberta, Canada

MUTEK Festival
Clinker presents Provody, May 28, 2007
Ex-Centris, Montreal, QC, Canada

Expanse New Works Festival
Bronze Age – Music and Sound Design by Clinker
February 23-26, 2006, Azimuth Theatre – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sea of Sound Edmonton Intermedia Arts Festival3
(The Works Festival/BEAMS) – June 25, 2005
Citadel Rice Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

MUTEK (Le Placard) Festival
Just for Laughs Theatre, June 3, 2005
Montreal, QC, Canada

MUTEK Festival
Ex-Centris, May 28, 2003
Montreal, QC, Canada



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

 
SOLO

12 TONES
Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, September 11 – 29, 2013
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Topographic Sound
featuring Ouroboros and new works
dc3 Art Projects, February 7 – March 16, 2013
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Soundbursting No.1
Harcourt House Main Space Gallery, March 1- April 14, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Frequency Painting: 12 Tones
Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture Main Space, January – February 2011
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Frequency Painting
Mountain Computer Music Festival, University of Montana, September 2010
Missoula, Montana, USA

 
GROUP

Papier13 Contemporary Art Fair
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 26-28, 2013

2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
January 26-May 5, 2013

Just Draw
Group exhibition at dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada
October 4 – November 15, 2012

Provody
Sublimation: An Exercise in the Immersive, Oboro, March 3 – April 7, 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ouroboros
Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling the Mandala
Koffler Centre of the Arts, September – December 2011
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Frequency Painting: Wave Drifting No.1
Sound Waves / Phono:Graphic, Galerie8 Contemporary Art Gallery, August 2011
London, UK

Frequency Paintings: 330.80 Hz
Toronto Image Works Gallery, August 2011
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Due South… (Towards Irricana)
Re/flux Sublimated Landscape / Sonic Topography,
London ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, August 2011
London, UK

Provody
Vague Terrain Archives @ Electric Fields Festival, 2010
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Provodyty (A New Terrain)
Continental In[Di]visibility Resonance FM (Group Broadcast Exhibition 2009)
London, UK

Teilmenge24
Sprawl – Interplay 4 Festival (Group Exhibition 2007)
Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Bristol

ice man (is it just me, or are winters getting longer)
Standart Festival (Group Exhibition 2003)
Madrid, Spain

ice man (is it just me, or are winters getting longer)
New Forms Festival (Group Exhibition 2003), Roundhouse Community Center
Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

SELECTED AWARDS  /  RESIDENCIES  /  COMMISSIONS

Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA)
Visual Art & New Media Production Grant 2012

Canada Council for the Arts (ACDI) Production Grant 2011

The Banff Centre – Self-Directed Artist Residency (Film & New Media)
November – December, 2011

Edmonton 2011 Artists' Trust Fund Award

Edmonton Arts Council (EAC) Production Grant 2011

High Performance Rodeo Soundasaurus Festival – Live Cinema Commission
Vector Rails, Clinker + Adam Tindale – Temporal Extinction Event, 2011

Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) Production Grant 2010

High Performance Rodeo Soundasaurus Festival – Live Cinema Commission
Vector Rails, Clinker + Adam Tindale - A Valid Line, 2010

The Banff Centre – Self-Directed Artist Residency (BNMI) April, 2010

The Banff Centre – Self-Directed Artist Residency (BNMI)
August – December, 2009

Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) Research Grant 2009

National Film Board of Canada (NFB) – Dirt, Feature Film Score, 2008

International Leonard Cohen Festival – Live Cinema Commission, 2008

The Banff Centre – BNMI Interactive Screen Artist Residency, August 2008

The Banff Centre – BNMI Interactive Screen Artist Residency, August 2007

Canada Council for the Arts – Artist Travel Grant 2003

 
 
ARTIST TALKS  /  MASTER CLASSES  /  PANELS

Beakerhead Festival | Speakerhead On Art  | 12 Tones Artist Talk
Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, AB | September 14, 2013

Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS) Conference | Artist Talk
Waterton Opera House, Waterton, AB | June 8, 2013

The Banff Centre Rice Studio Artist Talks: Gary Jame Joynes
Frequency Painting: Sound As Sculpture
Rice Studio Theatre, JPL, The Banff Centre, December 15, 2011

Harcourt House | Soundbursting No.1 Artist Talk
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, , March 1, 2012

University of Alberta / Department of Music | Guest Composer Master Class
Live Performance Process using Analog Modular Synthesis
Edmonton, Alberta, March 3, 2011

Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture
12 Tones Artist Talk
Edmonton, Alberta, February 5, 2011

Edmonton New Technology Society (ENTS) Dorkbot Edmonton
12 Tones Artist Talk
Edmonton, Alberta, December 11, 2010

University of Montana / 2010 Mountain Computer Music Festival (MCMF) 
Guest Composer Artist Lecture
Missoula, Montana, USA, September 9, 2010

Emmedia Sonic Boom Festival / On the Other Side… Artist Talk
Emmedia, Calgary, Alberta, March 20, 2009

MUTEK 2007 Panel
LIVE CINEMA & BEYOND: BREAKING BARRIERS IN THE AUDIO/VISUAL DIVIDE
Montreal, QC, Canada, May 30, 2007

 

SELECTED PRESS

LIVID INSTRUMENTS Interviews Gary James Joynes
Austin, Texas, July 25, 2013
by Peter Nyboer

Alberta Primetime Video Feature Interview
Topographic Sound: An Explosive Exhibition
Original Air Date: Friday, March 01, 2013

Optik TV Video Feature Interview
Topographic Sound / Peregrination (Live Cinema)

Edmonton Journal Arts Feature
Topographic Sound: Creating the Visible from the Audible | February 7, 2013
by Fish Griwkowsky

Galleries West Magazine| Summer Issue, 2013
Topographic Sound
by Agnieszka Matejko

National Post, Ouroboros, Jason Spencer, September 23, 2011

Blackflash Magazine, Frequency Painting: 12 Tones by David LaRiviere
Summer Issue 23, 2011

Vue Magazine, Beyond Optical, Frequency Painting: 12 Tones
by Carolyn Jervis, January 26. 2011

Edmonton Journal Interview by Sandra Sperounes
Frequency Painting: 12 Tones, February 4, 2011

Vague Terrain Digital Arts Journal, Greg J. Smith
Frequency Painting: 12 Tones, February 4, 2011

Temporary Fault, Sonic Signals From The Recent Past
Clinker – On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen), June 26, 2009

Igloo Magazine, Alan Lockett
On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen)
May 5, 2009

Loop, Guillermo Escudero
On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen)
March 23, 2009

Cyclic Defrost, Max Schaefer
On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen)
March 17, 2009

White_Line, On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen)
January 24, 2009

See Magazine, Clinker Stretches, Prosper Prodaniuk
On the Other Side…
July 2008

Vue Magazine, Clinker at the Leonard Cohen International Festival
Bryan Birtles
July 2008

XLR8R Magazine, Interview by Tobias C. Van Veen
Clinker at MUTEK 2007
May 2007

Espaces Le Naivre Night, CBC Radio Canada, Broadcast + Interview
Clinker at MUTEK 2003
September 14, 2003

See Magazine, Min. sound, Max Effect, Interview by Prosper Prodaniuk
Clinker at MUTEK 2003
June 5, 2003



 

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