Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is a former Prorector at Vilnius Academy of Arts and a former director of a Soviet amusement park in Klaipėda.
Working at the intersection of extraterrestrial art, critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, and sci-fi, he develops various critical tools for negotiating gravity—from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made entirely of human bodies. In these projects, he coins the term "gravitational aesthetics," an artistic approach that exploits methods of manipulating gravity to create experiences pushing the body and imagination to their extremes.
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is a former Prorector at Vilnius Academy of Arts and a former director of a Soviet amusement park in Klaipėda.
Working at the intersection of extraterrestrial art, critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, and sci-fi, he develops various critical tools for negotiating gravity—from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made entirely of human bodies. In these projects, he coins the term "gravitational aesthetics," an artistic approach that exploits methods of manipulating gravity to create experiences pushing the body and imagination to their extremes.
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is a former Prorector at Vilnius Academy of Arts and a former director of a Soviet amusement park in Klaipėda.
Working at the intersection of extraterrestrial art, critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, and sci-fi, he develops various critical tools for negotiating gravity—from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made entirely of human bodies. In these projects, he coins the term "gravitational aesthetics," an artistic approach that exploits methods of manipulating gravity to create experiences pushing the body and imagination to their extremes.
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is a former Prorector at Vilnius Academy of Arts and a former director of a Soviet amusement park in Klaipėda.
Working at the intersection of extraterrestrial art, critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, and sci-fi, he develops various critical tools for negotiating gravity—from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made entirely of human bodies. In these projects, he coins the term "gravitational aesthetics," an artistic approach that exploits methods of manipulating gravity to create experiences pushing the body and imagination to their extremes.
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is a former Prorector at Vilnius Academy of Arts and a former director of a Soviet amusement park in Klaipėda.
Working at the intersection of extraterrestrial art, critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, and sci-fi, he develops various critical tools for negotiating gravity—from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made entirely of human bodies. In these projects, he coins the term "gravitational aesthetics," an artistic approach that exploits methods of manipulating gravity to create experiences pushing the body and imagination to their extremes.