Dr. Ilona Jurkonytė

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Ilona Jurkonytė yra kino ir medijų tyrėja, kino kuratorė, Vilniaus universiteto fondo stipendininkė. 2015-2019 m. Ilona buvo Vanier stipendininkė Concordia universitete, Monrealyje, Kanadoje, kur įgijo kinotyros daktarės laipsnį. Prieš pradėdama akademinį darbą, Ilona buvo aktyvi kino kultūros veikėja, kino kuratorė. Šiuo metu, daktarės disertacijos pagrindu, Ilona rengia monografiją spaudai.

Ilonos specializacija: transnacionalinės kinotyros prieigos, meninis tyrimas, išplėsto lauko kinas, aplinkotyra ir medijos, medijos ir kritiniai infrastruktūros tyrimai.

Ilona iniciavo ir įsteigė Tarptautinį Kauno kino festivalį (2007), buvo jo vadovė (2007-2012) ir meno vadovė (2007-2020). 2012-2014 dirbo kino programos kuratore Šiuolaikinio meno centre, Vilniuje.

Pranešimai konferencijose

• 2023/10/20-21Co-Organizer and Participant – conference paper: “Intantible Cinema Heritage” in 8^th Baltic Sea Region Film Studies Conference: City, Cinema, and Media.
• 2023/08/30 Paper: Cold War Liquid Frontier: Environmental Media and Global Easts. Conference: “Decolonization of Memory in the Former Soviet Spaces,” organized by Yulia Yurchuk (Södertörn University) and Fabio Belafatti (University of Groningen/ Vilnius University).
• 2021/08 Paper: What Do Cinema Rescue Cases Expose. Conference: “(Post)Socialism as a Global Resource.” Presentation in program “Strategy, Organization, Action,” UC Berkeley.
• 2021/06 Paper: New Vocabularies: Scale and Beauty or Bomb as an Archiving Devise. Conference: “Atomic Heritage Conference,” organized by Anna Storm (Stockhom University), Florence Fröhlig (Södertörn University), Tatiana Kasperski (Pompeu Fabra University), Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University), Andrei Stsiapanau (Vytautas Magnus University).
• 2019/09/19 Paper: Production of Cinematic Public Space and Its Potentials Today Participant – “V Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference” in Vilnius, Lithuania.
• 2019/09/01 Participant in a discussion “Progressive Festival Culture” at Artists’ Moving Image Symposium in at Nordland Art and Film School in Kabelvåg, Norway.
• 2019/03/14 Respondent in a seminar: “Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution” to presentations by Neda Atanasoski (UC Santa Cruz) and Kalindi Vora (UC Davis, organized by GEM Lab (Concordia University).

Įgyvendinti bei šiuo metu vykdomi projektai

Vilniaus Universiteto Fondo stipendininkė
Rengiama monografija “Temperature of War and Descending Clouds: US Bomb Archive and the Marshall Islands”

Priklausymas tarptautinėms mokslinėms organizacijoms, asociacijoms, tarptautinėms darbo grupėms, ekspertų komisijoms, leidinių redakcinėms kolegijoms ir kt.

Global Emergent Media Lab

Feminist Media Studio

Dalyvavimas visuomeninėje, šviečiamojoje veikloje

• 2023/11 Curator, Speaker – Entangled Archives of War: experiences, images, and politics of representation, as part of the ARchipelago – an augmented and collaborative archive project developed by Armina Pilav, Clarissa Thieme and the Goethe Institut Sarajevo.
• 2022/10 Presenter, Discussion Moderator – “What Would it Take to Make The Journey Today?” Public presentation for the occasion of screening The Journey by Peter Watkins (1987) in Sodas 2123, Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, Vilnius, Lithuania. Curators: Rastko Novakovic and Egidijus Mardosas.
• 2021/01 Public Call – initiator and co-writer: Calling for Sexual Violence Preventive Policies in Film Industry Institutions.
• 2019/09/27 Initiator, Organizer, and Moderator – international symposium dedicated to artists’ moving images: On & For Production and Distribution in Kaunas, Lithuania. Film industry and art production event, funded by EU Creative Europe.
• 2019/09 Speaker ­– Progressive Festival Culture at Artist Moving Image Symposium in at Nordland Art and Film School in Kabelvåg, Norway.
• 2018/08 – 2021/05 Project Leader – Lithuania “On & For Production and Distribution” – an EU collaboration that is conceived to advance and strengthen the field of artists’ moving image. Film program, artists’ talks, symposium
• 2018/09 Symposium “Film Festival and Public Space” in collaboration with Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania and Concordia University, Canada
• 2017/05 – 09 Guest Film Curator – Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival in Berwick, UK. Curated a programme Ultramarine: Sea as The Political Space
• 2012/08 Keynote speaker – “Geopolitics of Film Distribution in the Baltic countries” Step-in Locarno, organized by Locarno International Film Festival. This was an important event that marked a beginning of crucial changes in art house film distribution in the Baltic countries.
• 2007-2012 together with Dainius Genys and team of Kaunas International Film Festival, Ilona initiated and organized Romuva Cinema rescue, in Kaunas.

2007-2012 metais Ilona inicijavo ir kartu su Dainiumi Geniu bei Tarptautinio Kauno kino festivalio komanda sėkmingai organizavo „Romuvos“ kino teatro išsaugojimą Lietuvos kino kultūros ir Kauno miesto reikmėms.

Kita informacija, kuria norite pasidalinti

2023/10–12 Dėsto kursą Šiuolaikinės kino kryptys – meno programos doktorantams Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademijoje

2021/03/25 – 08/01 Paroda Arabidopsis Thaliana, bendradarbiaujant su Santiago Reyes Villaveces Bogotos modernaus meno muziejuje (Exhibition cycle MAMBO 2021-1/Landscape, Nature and Territory. The resilient quality of life under extreme circumstances).

Svarbiausios stipendijos:

2023 Vilniaus universiteto fondo stipendija

2015 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship