Jump to content

Draft:Ilona Gaynor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cover, Ilona Gaynor, Disegno Issue 9

Ilona Gaynor (born 1986) is a British designer, artist and writer[1]. Gaynor’s work focuses on critical themes addressing legal language, corporate operations, labor, contemporary economic complexities and their narrative, semiotic or cinematic constructions.

Biography

[edit]

Ilona Gaynor received her BA(Hons) in Moving Image Design from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in 2007 and her MA(RCA) in Design Interactions; under professors Dunne & Raby from the Royal College of Art in 2011[2]. She is currently a visiting professor of Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was previously an Associate Professor of Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2016-2022. She also taught speculative studies at the Architectural Association in London.

Gaynor was a curator for the 10th edition of the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne under the theme of shifting work paradigms in 2017,[3] and was awarded the Sir Ridley Scott residency prize for experimental narrative by RSA films in 2011. She was also a Designer in Residence at the Design Museum in London, 2014.[4][5]

She has contributed to a number of written publications: Disegno Journal, Dirty Furniture[6] Perspecta: Yale Architecture[7], Architectural Design (AD)[8], Redactions Series: Urbanomic Press[9] among others, and published a short Science Fiction story in MIT's Twelve Tomorrows[10] edited by American science fiction author Bruce Sterling.

Notable Exhibits

[edit]

InSomnolence, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, CA, 2024[11][12]

Dark Oceans, Law Warschaw Gallery, Minneapolis, US 2018[13][14]

Regimes of Prediction, Galerie Weisser Elefant Berlin, DE, 2018[15]

Futureproof, Fitzgerald Gallery, Pennsylvania, US, 2018[16][17]

The Ascent, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne,  FR 2017[18][19]

Disruption, The Design Museum, London, 2014[20][21]

Prehistory of the Image, Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2014[22]

Paper Moon, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, NL[23]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "INFO — Ilona Gaynor". ilona-gaynor.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ "Alumni Showcase, Royal College of Art". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  3. ^ "Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017 | Programme | Élévations". Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  4. ^ "Designers in Residence Announced For Seventh Annual Design Museum Programme". Artlyst. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  5. ^ "INFO — Ilona Gaynor". ilona-gaynor.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  6. ^ "Dirty Furniture #6, "Ilona Gaynor considers the sleep science behind falling asleep to Netflix each night"". magCulture. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  7. ^ Agron, Melinda; Covelli, Timon; Kandel, Alexis; Langdon, David, eds. (2022). Atopia. Perspecta. Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54381-1.
  8. ^ Sheil, Bob (2014). High definition: zero tolerance in design and production. Architectural design Profile. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-1-118-45185-4.
  9. ^ Mackay, Robin, ed. (2015). When site lost the plot. Redactions. Falmouth, United Kingdom: Urbanomic Media Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9575295-6-4.
  10. ^ Gaynor, Ilona (2015). Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies. MIT Press (published May 1, 2016). pp. Pages 47–61. ISBN 978-0-9910444-3-6.
  11. ^ "Interactive exhibition InSomnolence shows sleep is more social than it seems". Newsroom. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  12. ^ "InSomnolence". The Sociability of Sleep. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  13. ^ "Dark Ocean - jehrapatrick.com". jehrapatrick.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  14. ^ "Dark Ocean". Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  15. ^ "Opening Regimes of Prediction - Exhibition at galerie weisser elefant in Berlin". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  16. ^ "Futureproof - e-flux Education". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  17. ^ "About | Futureproof". exhibits.haverford.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  18. ^ "Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017 | Programme | Élévations". Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  19. ^ Regine (2017-04-27). "The Ascent: dynamics and geometries of the workplace". We Make Money Not Art. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  20. ^ "Ilona Gaynor designs the stagings for a hypothetical court case". Dezeen. 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  21. ^ Q42, Design Museum London. "Designers in Residence 2014: Disruption, Ilona Gaynor". Design Museum. Retrieved 2024-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ "Artefact expo: The Prehistory of the Image | ARTEFACT". archive.artefact-festival.be. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  23. ^ "Exhibition: Paper Moon". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
[edit]

Official Website
Interview, We-Make-Money-Not-Art
Interview, WIRED Magazine, "Ilona Gaynor has constructed the perfect heist"
Interview Podcast, Disegno Design Journal | The Crit #29
Interview with Roman Mars, 99% Invisible Podcast

Interview | Feature, The Design Museum, London 2014