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Skoða vefinn á ÍslenskuResearch output
According to the approach of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the result of research in the field of art is always two types at the same time, on the one hand a work and on the other hand a report on the work in question. A work means a product in any form, artwork or written work, 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 at 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 Department of Music
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 detention and health care settings, and with people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. These projects can be seen as a testament to the belief that music and music making can bring about positive experiences, impact and even change to people's lives. This research project aims to comprehensively investigate MetamorPhonics' (MP) community music practice and its impacts on participants. It encompasses multiple aspects, including understanding the profiles and motivations of MP band members, exploring the principles and beliefs that guide MP, and comparing them to other community music practices. The project also delves into the core pedagogical approaches used by MP, investigating the strategies, methodologies, and instructional techniques that shape its practice. It examines how the social context and characteristics of participants inform the musical approach and leadership within MP. Additionally, the project explores the significance of the MP experience for band members, including the personal, social, and musical impact of participation and potential spillover effects on participants' lives and engagement with broader communities. Furthermore, it supports the skill development of practitioners, develops research methods tailored for community music projects, and ensures a wide dissemination of research findings to academics, practitioners, and stakeholders.
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Visits: 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 sea levels. To this end the team drew particular focus on historic and contemporary polar bear arrivals to Iceland. Approaching the subject from a visual arts perspective, the project tested the contact zones between humans and polar bears and thereby, related networked effects of climate change, population displacement and environmental disruption. The research gathered and combined images, texts, audio, biological and other material relating to specific recorded polar bear arrivals. Methodologies involved a close study of the relationship between source material and its cultural and environmental contexts as well as to the transmission, interpretation and presentation of subtexts, embedded within all visual and textual matter. By foregrounding the animal as 'foreign' and through the study of its multiple guises – such as a being, a cohabitant, visitor, environmental register, remnant and artefact – the project aimed to make a significant contribution to current discourse on the objectification of both human and animal 'Others' in borderless environments and as such offered an alternative understanding of environmental ownership and response. The project's satellite partner in Alaska allowed for further comparative study within a wider geographic and cultural context.
Visits: Polar Bears Out of Place was granted funding 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 in folkloristics/ethnology at the University of Iceland, and Æsa Sigurjóndóttir, associate professor in art history and art theory at the University of Iceland. The project is multidisciplinary, with participants from the visual arts department of Iceland University of the Arts, the Institute of the Arts at the University of Cumbria, the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland and the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. Partner organizations are Anchorage Museum in Alaska (US), Akureyri Art Museum (IS), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (US), University of Iceland's Research Center in Strandir (IS), and The National Museum of Iceland.
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Musicians in exile from Germany and Austria and their influence on Icelandic musical life 1935-1974
Project completedPrincipal investigator: Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, visiting researcher at the Faculty of Music
Three musicians who fled the Third Reich in the years 1935–38 received residence permits 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 of Jewish descent, and so was Urbancic's wife. In the years around the founding of the Republic in 1944, great progress was made in the field of orchestral playing and choral singing in this country, not least because of the energetic work of the three of them.The project "Musicians in exile from Germany and Austria and their influence on Icelandic musical life, 1935–1974" will be the first comprehensive study of the lives and work of these three musicians. Special emphasis will be placed on exploring how they took part in shaping leading musical institutions that still operate today (Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, choirs and music schools), but also specific areas of music education and performance (for example performance of baroque music and church music). Their contribution will also be examined in a cultural and political context, not least with regard to the Reykjavík Music Association and disputes over work permits for foreign musicians in the years 1930-40, which both FÍH and BÍL were involved in. By examining original materials in museums and in private ownership In Iceland and abroad, through interviews with contemporaries and a comprehensive examination of contemporary sources, it will be possible for the first time to paint a picture of his life and the artistic contribution of these important musicians who until now have not been given 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) The history of music (2016) and Music of the past centuries (2019). He has twice received the Icelandic Music Prize 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 Oberlin University of Music and Harvard University, from where he completed his doctorate in 2003. He has written numerous articles and book chapters and given lectures on music around the world, including in the USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan. This is his third research project that receives funding from the Research Fund. -
Vision in context: the use of imagery in Iceland's printing 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 a 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 of 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 is the different forms and graphic origins of printmaking, as well as the graphic development of printing technology and the influence of reproduction. Imagery and imagery in reproduced material was the subject of research, from monographs to official imagery. The research was a collaborative project between the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the National Library of Iceland, the University Library and the Iceland Design Museum. The research is based on two types of methodology; image analysis of stylistic emphasis on the one hand and methods of exhibition management on the other. The results of the project were divided into an exhibition section during the period where the results of the process were communicated and lectures on the subject were delivered. Furthermore, the material obtained by the research was registered in the open database of the partner institutions, thus opening access to the research material; students, teachers and researchers, as well as the public for information. In this way, the research opens up for searches and knowledge of figurative language as well as access to the history of the authors of figurative language both for museums, educational institutions and the general 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, but the Ministry of Education and Culture bought the system and entrusted the museum with its operation and management. Here you have the opportunity to examine research activities and the social distribution of knowledge that is created during research in Iceland. The activity can be seen in researchers, institutions and disciplines as well as in the cooperation of academics, artists and scientists in an international context. The IRIS information system is under development and will undergo changes as the project progresses, including the Icelandic translation of the system.