Month: May 2016

Here is more info on the HEBOCON robot contest. There are still space left for few contestants, so if you’re interested please contact Sam Rees ( s a m t r e e s @ g m a i l . c o m ) Participants should read these documents carefully: 1.What_is_Hebocon_en 2.Hebocon_Official_Rule_Book_en

Jón Örn Loðmfjörð is an Icelandic experimental poet. He is noted for computer-generated poetry, and particularly his 2010 mash-up of the Icelandic government report into the collapse of Iceland’s banks in 2008, Gengismunur (‘Arbitrage’).

Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir is a multidisciplinary artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her work often explores the fringes of poetry, performance art and experimental music.

Artist Halldór Úlfarsson and composer Hlynur A. Vilmarsson join forces to create a hi-fi/elemental experiment. Halldór Úlfarsson (1977) studied fine art and design in Helsinki, Finland. His practice has gradually become inseperable from his project the halldorophone, an electro-acoustic string instrument he´s been developing for the past years. The halldorophone features in many new compositions…

Bergrún is an Icelandic composer/performer/sound artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland / Oakland, California. Her art often reflects sensory distorted power structures, re-invented in one’s own mind.

Þórður Kári Steinþórsson is an electronic musician from the southeastern districts of Reykjavík and sometimes goes under the name Kosmodod. This Berlin based artist is one of the co-founders of Sweaty Records, the brand new Berlin/Reykjavik electro label, as well as being the producer of the infamous band Samaris. This Raflost he will be performing…

Born in 1979 in Reykjavík, Kolbeinn Hugi is an island dwelling artist of a generation that emerged in the wake of the cataclysmic great rift between art and artists in the bleak neo-capitalist Reykjavík of modern times. Kolbeinn has developed a complex audiovisual language, using found materials, water-foam, fabrics and layered synthesized soundscapes. Visual motifs…

Páll Ivan frá Eiðum – renegade cop and maverick Páll Ivan takes you on an epic journey through space and time, his face beaten beyond recognition. The perfect storm in a nutshell. Coming soon. slatur.is/pallivan  

Erik Parr is an American artist living in Iceland, Europe and the US. He creates sensory based installations that range from sound and visual compositions to interventions in science, industrial processes and ecological systems.

Arnljótur is a musician based in Reykjavík. The last years he has focused on electronic music and released four albums under his own name. HIs style has progressed from concrete music to pulsing ambience. On the concert in Mengi he will play new material based around ring modulation. arnljotur.bandcamp.com www.soundcloud.com/arnljotur www.facebook.com/arnljoturmusic photo: Håkon Broder Lund

Sigrún Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic musician and composer. She studied at the Icelandic Academy of the arts from 2011-2015 alongside touring with various bands around the world. In her most recent work she has been exploring the components of everyday noise and sounds. Taking them a part, frequency by frequency, and manipulating until it turns…

Video artist Haraldur Karlsson og Composer Daniel Schorno are former classmates of Sonology where they among other things studied the making of alternative electronic instruments. They have been active for almost two decades in giving exhibitions, workshops and performances. Daniel Schorno under the alias ‘zitegeist’ daniel schorno travels the globe performing on new eponymous analoge…

Mengi, Saturday the 28th at 21:00 RAFLOST invites applications for people to take part in Iceland´s 1st Hebocon ( a robot sumo-wrestling competition for those who are not technically gifted ). Open to all ages, all abilities.  Please email samtrees@gmail.com to enrol in the competition – applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis….

Nicolas Kunysz is a Reykjavik based Belgian mixed media artist formerly trained as MA in product/industrial designer at La Cambre, Brussels. Since then Nicolas has been working with various artists, designers and companies (Jerzsy Seymour, Wim Delvoye, Sruli Recht, Mundi to name a few). In 2012 he founded The Makery, a design workshop and Lady…

Sam Rees is a British artist based in the Northeast of Iceland where he manages a small arts centre and residency. He teaches basic coding and electronics in the design faculty at LHI and has a passion for lo-fi work by outsiders and those marginalised by the mainstream. http://www.ififoundafrozentimewarpidputitinthemicrowaveatyourhouse.co.uk/

T-EMP (Trondheim Electroacoustic Music Performance) is an ensemble performing improvised electroacoustic music, closely linked to performance explorations in music technology at Department of Music, NTNU (see more information about T-EMP below). T-EMP workshop, Iceland Academy of the Arts, May, 23. and 24.: We invite musicians from different musical genres to bring their instruments (acoustic, electronic…

Arnar Ómarsson is an artist and project manager as well as giving talks about project development, cross disciplinary collaborations and fine art. He graduated with a 1st from the University of the Arts’ London in 2011 with a degree in fine art photography and has since been based in Denmark and Iceland by most part….