CLINKER | BIOGRAPHY

Gary James Joynes is a sound artist, composer and visual artist from Edmonton, Canada. He is fascinated by the sources of electronic composition and the ever-evolving language of technology; objects and mechanisms stimulate his process. As Clinker, his work explores meditative spaces and the kinesthetic and synaesthetic effects of sound and visuals.

His most recent installation work Ouroboros had its world premiere at the 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. Clinker's most recent 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 music for future audio-visual sculptural installations. Recent performances include Electric Fields (Ottawa), Mountain Computer Music Festival (Montana), Roulette Mixology Festival (New York), High Performance Rodeo (Calgary), (((Soundwave))) (Vancouver Island), Mutek_10 (Montreal), Mutek_10 Tour (Edmonton), Emmedia Sonic Boom 2009 (Calgary), Banff Centre - BNMI Interactive Screen (2008 & 2007 editions) and the 2008 Leonard Cohen International Festival.

The last few years have seen Clinker's work performed and exhibited in Canada and abroad in festivals and events including Soundfjord re/flux Sublimated Landscape / Sonic Topology @ ICA London (London, UK), 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), Standart 2003 (Madrid, Spain).

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

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

Provody
Sublimation - Soundfjord London UK at Oboro
March 3 - April 7, 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Frequency Painting: 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 (Group Exhibition 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 and COMMISSIONS

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, Temporal Extinction Event), 2011

Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) Production Grant 2010

High Performance Rodeo Soundasaurus Festival - Live Cinema Commission (Vector Rails, 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

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

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 + 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, AB

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, AB

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, 2009, 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 - June 3, 2005, Just for Laughs Theatre, Montreal, QC, Canada

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

SELECTED PRESS

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