Research results
According to the approach of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the result of research in the academic field of art is always of two types at a time, on the one hand a work and on the other a report on the work in question. A work refers to the result in any form, a work of art or writing, and the condition is that it has been communicated in a public forum. The university's stated policy is to encourage an experimental approach and diverse forms of communication in research work.
Research project hosted by the Iceland Academy of the Arts
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Building bridges through collaboration: MetamorPhonics as an approach to socially engaged music making
CurrentPrincipal investigator: Þorbjörg Daphne Hall, associate professor in the music department
Building bridges through collaboration: MetamorPhonics as an approach to socially engaged music making (2024-2026), - a three-year artist-led collaborative research project.
Various socially engaged and participatory music projects work with diverse communities, such as people in determination and health care settings. This research project aims to implement information about the parties.
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Visitations: Polar Bears out of Place
Project completedPrincipal investigator: Bryndís H. Snæbjörnsdóttir, professor of art
Visitations: Polar Bears Out of Place (2019-22) - a three-year artist-led collaborative research project run by Icelandic and international universities, galleries and museums.
The aim of the project was to contribute to a growing body of knowledge concerning human/non-human relations and habitat in a time of global warming and rising seas and together, related networks of climate change, population displacement and environmental breakdown. The research could and combined images, audio, biological and other material related information.
Visitations: Polar Bears Out of Place was grant meeting for three years (2019-2021) by The Icelandic Research Fund and is the first research project in the field of the visual arts to secure such a grant. It is based at Iceland University of the Arts and is directed by principal investigators Bryndís H. Snæbjörnsdóttir, professor of Fine Art at Iceland University of the Arts, and Mark Wilson, professor of Fine Art at the University of Cumbria in the UK. Co-investigators are Kristinn Schram, associate professor Iceland in folklore and art of the University of Iceland, Associate professor of the University of Iceland and art of the University of Iceland, Associate professor of the Icelandic Institute of the Society and art of the University of the University of the Society of the Society of the University of the Society of the Society of the Society and the Society of the Society of the Society of the Society.
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Musicians in exile from Germany and Austria and their influence on Icelandic music 1935-1974
Project completedPrincipal investigator: Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, guest researcher at the music department
Three musicians who fled the Third Reich in 1935 -38 were granted residency in Iceland and laid the foundation for the development of musical life in Iceland at an important time These were Robert Abraham, Heinz Edelstein and Victor Urbancic Abraham and Edelstein were Jewish, and so was Urbancic's wife In the years surrounding the establishment of the Republic in 1944, great progress was made in the field of orchestral playing and choral singing in this country, not least for the energetic work of the three.The project „Musicians in Exile from Germany and Austria and Their Influence on Icelandic Music Life, 1935 -1974“ will be the first large-scale study of the life and work of these three musicians. Special emphasis will be placed on exploring how they participated in shaping the leading music institutions that still operate today (the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, choirs and music schools), but also certain areas of music education and performance (for example, the performance of baroque music and church music). Their contribution will also be examined in a cultural-political context, not least with regard to the Reykjavík Music Association and disputes about work permits for foreign musicians in the years around 1930-40, which both FÍH and BÍL drew into. By exploring original data in museums and privately owned in Iceland and abroad, interviews with contemporaries and a comprehensive examination of contemporary sources, it will be possible for the first time to paint a picture of the life and artistic contribution of these important musicians who until now have not received the place they deserve.Árni Heimir Ingólfsson has been researching Icelandic music history for two decades. He has written four books about music, all of which have received high praise and numerous awards, among other things Jón Leifs - Life in tones (2009), History of music (2016) and Music of the Past Ages (2019). He has twice received the Icelandic Music Award for CDs with music from ancient Icelandic manuscripts and has twice been nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. Árni Heimir studied piano and musicology at the Oberlin University of Music and Harvard University, from where he completed his doctorate in 2003. He has written numerous articles and book chapters and lectured on music around the world, including in the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan. This is his third research project that receives funding from the Research Fund. -
Perspectives in context: the use of visual language in Iceland's print history from 1844-1944
Project completedPrincipal investigator: Guðmundur Oddur Guðmundsson (Goddur), professor of graphic design
A publication with research results is expected in 2024.
The main goal of this two-year research project was to analyze and classify in the historical context graphic representations in printed material in the period 1844-1944. the purpose was to analyze the influence of design on imagery, the connection between imagery and text, and the influence of social factors such as national image, the struggle for independence and the establishment of a republic.
The core of the project are different types and the graphic origin of print image molds as well as the graphic development of print technology and the influence of reproduction. Visual material and visual language in reproduced material was the research subject, from monocots to public visual language. The research was a collaborative project between the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the National Library of Iceland, the University Library and the Icelandic Design Museum. The research is based on two types of methodology; imaging of stylistic focuses on the one hand and the methods of exhibition management. The results of the project were divided into exhibition sections during the period where the results within the process were communicated and lectures on the subject were delivered. Furthermore, the material that the research obtained was recorded in the open database of the partner institutions and thus opened up to the public for information. Thus, the research opens up search and knowledge of visual language as well as access to history of visual language authors for both museums, educational institutions and the public.
IRIS
IRIS (Icelandic Research Information System) is a research portal that shows the research activity of Icelandic universities and institutions that are members of the portal The system is run by the National Library of Iceland - University Library, while the Ministry of Education and Culture purchased the system and entrusted the museum with its operation and management. Here it is possible to examine the research activity and social distribution of knowledge that is generated during research in Iceland The activity can be seen in researchers, institutions and disciplines as well as in collaboration between academic, artistic and scientific people in an international context The IRIS information system is being developed and will undergo changes as the project progresses, including the Icelandic translation of the system.