Heejoon June Yoon is a interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work aims to uncover the ecology of absurdity and latent violence within the contemporary society through audiovisual making. Yoon’s recent work focuses on body, form and shape in relation to semiotic theory.
Her films and other works have been presented internationally at venues such as Montreal World Film Festival, Boston Cyberarts, Shelter-In-Place gallery, CICA Museum, Space 413, White Noise, and Pier Contemporary; and at online platforms such as the Foundation.app, Wrong Biennale and Radio Nopal.
Yoon has been teaching internationally via institutions such as Rhode Island School of Design, Inha University, Scripps College, Connecticut College, and Pocoapoco. See below for the detail:
2018 - present
Lecture/Studio:
Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
“Foundations Studio: Design”. fall 2020 ~ present
Department of Art
Connecticut College, CT
“Time Based Digital Art”. spring 2024 ~ present
Department of Film/Animation/Video
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
“Digital Practices”. fall 2023 and spring 2024
Division of Design Convergence
Inha University, Korea
“Understanding Photography and Moving Images”. fall 2022
“Photography and Moving Images”. spring 2022 and 2023
Department of Digital + Media
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
“Blood in the Louvre, Butt in Vimeo”. winter 2020.
co-taught w/ Ji Yoon Chung.
Workshop:
Media Studies program and Art department
Scripps College, CA
“Web-VR Workshop”. Apr 2023 and Oct 2020
Pocoapoco Residency
Oaxaca, Mexico
"Tending to Cryptid Bodies". Jan - Feb 2023
co-taught w/ Miriam Hillawi Abraham.
Guest Critic:
Fine Art department
Gachon University, Korea
“New Media Art 2”. Dec 2022
Digital Media department
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
“Digital + Media MFA 21 Thesis Review”. May 2021
Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
“Foundation Studio: Design”. Dec 2019