EDUCATION

From 2007
PhD in Design Interactions (expected date of graduating- 2011), Royal College of Art, London, UK.

2005-2007
PhD in Design/Art Research (temporarily suspended), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2003-2005
MA in Design (Honours degree with Distinction), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1999-2003
BA in Visual Design, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

From 2007
Freelance Designer / Artist / Lecturer

2005-2007
Visiting lecturer, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2004-2007
CEO, General Manager of Amusment Park, Poilsio Parkas UAB, Private Stock Company, Klaipeda, Lithuania.

2004
Chief Designer for Design of Amusement Rides, Exgames UAB, Private Stock Company, Palanga, Lithuania.

2003
Designer of amusement park equipment, Poilsio Parkas UAB, Private Stock Company, Klaipeda, Lithuania.

EXHIBITIONS

2011
"Sounding Doors," ZKM, Hauptbahnhof, Morgenstrasse Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany. http://www.opendoors-ka.de
"HUMAN+: the Future of Our Species," Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Japan Media Arts Festival 2010, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan.

2010
"Teleportation / Prediction," St Etienne Design Biennale 2010, St. Etienne, France.
"Research RCA: New Knowledge," Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts Exhibition, Linz, Austria.

2009
"Made in Klaipeda?," Klaipėda Art Exhibition Hall, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
“Talking Doors” - series of interactive art installations in public space, workshops & lectures. Various venues, Vilnius, Lithuania.
ISEA09, Waterfront Hall gallery, Belfast, UK.

2008
”Elswhere,” Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, London, UK.
“Migrating Reality” – new media art exhibition, Berlin, Germany.
“Objects for Arithmomaniacs” - solo exhibition, "Daiktu Viesbutis" design gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2007
“Le Name,” new media art festival & exhibition, Lille & Maubeuge, France.
“ENTER: Interactivity” - new media art festival, Siauliai, Lithuania.

2006
“100% design”- design exhibition, London, UK.
“PlArtforma” - contemporary art festival, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
“Art Now Future Now” - international biennale of contemporary art, Kaunas, Lithuania.

TALKS - lectures/workshops/conferences

2011
Lecture, Ministry of Education and Science, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Paper presentation, "Designing Death", The Edge of Our Thinking: Research in Art & Design – conference, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Talk, Parsons The New School for Design, NYC, USA.
Talk, “Euthanasia Coaster: G-design, Fatal Asethetics and Social Sci-Fi,” Applied Brilliance 2011 – conference, Jackson Hole, USA.
A series of workshops, "Sounding Architectures," Morgenstrasse Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Lecture, "Talking Doors and Sounding Architectures," The University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Germany.
Talk-performance, "Nonfiction of Levitation," Kosmica 4, The Arts Catalyst, London, UK
Project presentation, "Euthanasia Coaster," Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Lecture, "Alternative Aesthetics," Architecture department, Royal College of Art, London.

2010
Lecture, "G-Design: Vehicular Poetry, Design Choreography, Gravitational Forgery and other design strategies," Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, London.
Project presentation, "Talking Doors," ARS Electronica Festival 2010: Prix Forum Interactive Art, Austria, Linz, http://www.vimeo.com/15318894
Paper presentation, CEPHAD 2010, Conference on philosophy and design research, Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2009
Lecture, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper presentation, “Gravitational Aesthetics,” ISEA09, The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Belfast, UK.
Presenter/workshop organiser, “Talking Doors,” Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Conducting workshop, “Transgressions,” Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Reviewer, HCI 2009, 23rd British Computer Society conference on Human Computer Interaction, Cambridge University, UK.

2008
Lecture-performance,  “Fictional Design and Design Fiction,”  design gallery “Daiktų viešbutis,” Vilnius, Lithuania.

2007
Talk, “Interaktyvaus meno praktika ir teorija” (Interactive Art Practice and Theory), “ENTER_5” media art festival, Šiauliai, Lithuania.
Paper presentation, “Įtarpinto humoro dizainas: ribų ritualas ir ideo-terapija interaktyvioje terpėje” (Mediated Humor Design: boundary ritual and ideo-therapy in interactive media), conference: "Media studies: philosophy, communication, art," Vilnius, Lithuania.
Lecture/presentation, “Multimodal Interaction Design”, KIASMA contemporary art centre, Helsinki, Finland.
Reviewer, a series of reviews of postgraduate art students, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.

TEXTS - conference papers/academic articles/essays

2011
Article, The invention of the pedestrian. In: K. Jakaite, ed. Lithuanian Design. Vilnius: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis.

2010
Essay, The barany chair and g-design. In: C. Griffin, ed.,  ARC magazine. London: Royal College of Art, pp. 44-47.
Edited book, Talking doors. Vilnius: Hotel of Things.
Paper, Gravitational aesthetics. In: P. Galle and H. Hove, eds., Copenhagen working papers on design. Copenhagen: The Danish School Press, pp.175-179.

2009
Paper, Gravitational aesthetics. In: University of Ulster, ISEA09, The 15th International symposium on electronic art, Belfast, UK, 23 August – 1 September 2009.

2008
Article, Wind orchestra. In: V. Michelkevičius et al, eds. Migrating realities. Cologne: KHM, pp. 50-52
Article, Objects for arithmomaniacs. In: V. Michelkevičius, ed., Media culture voices. Vilnius: Mene, pp. 164-172.

2007
Paper,  Įtarpinto humoro dizainas: ribų ritualas ir ideo-terapija interaktyvioje terpėje (Mediated humor design: boundary ritual and ideo-therapy in interactive media) In: V. Michelkevičius, ed., Media studies, Vilnius: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, pp. 79-95.

AWARDS

2010
Jury Recommended Work, 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan.
Young Artist Award, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Honorary mention in Participative Media, Live 2011 Grand Prix, Turku, Finland.
Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2010, Linz, Austria.
The Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK.

2009
The Royal College of Art Grant, London, UK.

2008
The Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK.
The Westerly Trust Grant, London, UK.

2007
The Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK.
Educational Grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Main Award GRAND PRIX NORDICA, PRIX MOBIUS NORDICA 2007, mediaculture competition, Helsinki, Finland.

2006
Main Award for the best artwork, International Biennale of Contemporary Graphic Art, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2005
Rector’s Award for Design Innovation, Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.

MEDIA APPEARANCES (selected)

TV:
Aleksandra Repina, "Литовский дизайнер придумал «аттракцион смерти»" (from Russian "A Lithuanian designer has conceived the ride of death"). RUSSIA 5 TV channel, 5 September 2011, http://www.5-tv.ru/news/44869
Dmitry Ogaltsov, "Euthanasia Coaster." In: Piatnitsa, RUSSIA 2 TV channel, 5 August 2011.
Austė Serepinaitė, “Demokratiškos durys”. Delfi TV, 12 June 2009, http://tv.delfi.lt/video/gz40lmKU (Lithuanian)
Austė Serepinaitė, “Skambančios ir dvejojančios durys”. Delfi TV, 12 June 2009, http://tv.delfi.lt/video/j4yDoxGH (Lithuanian)
Skaidrilė Grigaitė, “Kalbančios durys”. In: Panorama, LTV, 12 June 2009 (Lithuanian)
Sigita Inčiūrienė, “Susieti nesusiejamus dalykus”. Šiaulių televizija, 7 April 2007 (Lithuanian)

Radio:
Sarah Meehan Sirk, "Euthanasia Coaster: Interview with the Author", In: "Day 6", CBC Radio One, 28 October 2011, http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2011/10/28/ultimate-rollercoaster
Jay Thomas, "The Jay Thomas Show," Serius/XM Satellite Radio, NYC, USA, 19 October 2011, http://www.jaythomas.com/today-on-the-jay-thomas-show/532-october-19-2011
Thomas Seely, "Art Uncovered – Julijonas Urbonas." Breakthru Radio, NYC, USA, 30 August 2011, http://www.breakthruradio.com/#/post/?dj=thomas&post=699&blog=64&autoplay=1
Jolanta Jurkūnienė, “Naujas požiūris į dizaino mokslo tyrimus.” In: Žinių amžius, LR, 24 February 2010, http://www.lrt.lt/radio/news.php?strid=5086&id=5416816&sid=7704 (Lithuanian)
Auksė Kancerevičiūtė. In: “Ryto allegro”, LR, 26 June 2009 (Lithuanian)

Books, magazines, newspapers, web portals:
Amy Enchelmeyer, "Sucide by Roller Coaster." In: Discovery.com, 19 September 2011, http://news.discovery.com/tech/euthanasia-sucicide-rollercoaster-ride-110919.html
Pierre Denan, "Euthanasia Coaster", In: Ah AH AH, 2011.
Kavantgarde TV, "Open Doors – ein interaktives Kunstprojekt," http://www.kavantgar.de/?p=6980
Sayre Quevedo, "Julijonas Urbonas Designs For Art, Not For Practicality." In: Turnstylenews.com, 26 August 2011, http://turnstylenews.com/2011/08/26/julijonas-urbonas-designs-for-art-not-for-practicality/
Ekaterina Furceva, "Пик гуманизма" (from Russian "The peak of humanism"). In: Esquire, June 201, pp. 60-61. http://esquire.ru/roller-coaster
Régine Debatty, "The Euthanasia Coaster." In: WMMNA.com, 20 June 2011, http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/06/the-euthanasia-coaster.php
John Pavlus, "'Euthanasia Coaster" Would Make Assisted Suicide Fun, At 223 mph." In: Fastcodesign.com, 17 June 2011, http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664089/euthanasia-coaster-would-make-assisted-suicide-fun-at-223-mph
Kevin Holmes, "Euthanasia Coaster: The Roller Coaster Of Death." In: Thecreatorsproject.com, 14 June 2011, http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/ieuthanasia-coasteri-the-roller-coaster-of-death
Paula Rothman, "A montanha-russa da morte" (from Portuguese "The death coaster"). In: Abril.com, 1 June 2011, http://info.abril.com.br/infograficos/montanha/
Siân Disson, "The ride of your life..." In: World Architecture News, 9 May 2011, http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=16642
Daniel Fernández Pascual, "Euthanasia Coaster." In: Deconcrete.org, 5 May 2011, http://www.deconcrete.org/2011/04/05/euthanasia-coaster/
Cormac Sheridan, "Human+: forecasting our future." In: Newscientist.com, 15 April 2011, http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/04/human-forecasting-our-future.html
Jurij Dobriakov, “Julijonas Urbonas: mąstantis daiktais.” In: Artnews.lt, 20 June 2010, http://www.artnews.lt/julijonas-urbonas-mastantis-daiktais-6501 (Lithuanian)
Darjo Hrib, “Counting Chair.” In: Playboy Slovenia, August 2010.
Anna-Anna Soeters, “Objects for Arithmomaniacs”. In: Linda magazine, July 2010.
Aistė Kisarauskaitė, “Stotelė: už “Kalbančių durų.” In: Šiaurės Atėnai, 13 November 2009, nr. 964, http://www.culture.lt/satenai/?leid_id=963&kas=straipsnis&st_id=17173 (Lithuanian)
Toma Jonuškaitė, “Varstomų durų koncertas.” In: CityOut, 26 August 2009, http://www.cityout.lt/menas/articles/Varstomu_duru_koncertas_interviu (Lithuanian)
Inga Norkė, “Futuristinė buitis.” In: Pravda, May 2009 nr. 5309 (Lithuanian)
Ana Siman, “Kam dizainui mokslas?.” In: Deko, April 2008 http://gyvenimas.delfi.lt/career/article.php?id=17901482 (Lithuanian)
Sigita Inčiūrienė, “Susieti nesusiejamus dalykus.” In: Park@s, Literatūra ir menas, 29 June 2007 nr. 3149 , http://www.culture.lt/lmenas/?leid_id=3149&kas=straipsnis&st_id=11095 (Lithuanian)