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Óstöðug kerfi // Unstable Systems
Óstöðugleiki getur verið skapandi afl í listum, hönnun og arkitektúr. Listamenn, hönnuðir og fræðimenn vinna með kerfi og gegn kerfum sem eru síbreytileg, brothætt eða ófyrirsjáanleg. Hvort sem um ræðir tæknikerfi, vistkerfi, félagskerfi eða skynræna upplifun, þá er óstöðugleiki oft forsenda sköpunar.
Óstöðugleiki, opnar leiðir fyrir nýjar hugmyndir og ferla sem breyta því hvernig við nálgumst og endurhönnum þau kerfi sem móta líf okkar. Óstöðugleikinn getur einnig vísað til sköpunarinnar sjálfrar, sem fylgir ekki fyrirframgefnum brautum eða viðmiðum. Listir, hönnun og arkitektúr nýtast sem tól til að koma stöðugum kerfum úr jafnvægi og/eða varpa nýju ljósi á kerfi sem virðast stöðug en eru það ekki. Ekkert kerfi er í raun stöðugt, og þegar við streitumst á móti óstöðugleikanum verður hann vandamál. Óstöðugleiki er því nánast eina vissan sem við getum treyst.
Hugarflug 2025 verður vettvangur fyrir rannsóknir sem fást við óstöðugleika í ólíkum kerfum – frá tæknilegum nýjungum eins og gervigreind og gagnvirkum kerfum, yfir í málefni tengd pólitík, samfélagi og umhverfi. Við beinum sjónum að því hvernig óstöðugleikinn nýtist sem tól til að skapa nýja möguleika, en líka hvernig hann ýtir undir óróa og breytingar í samfélaginu og háskólakerfinu. Listaháskóli Íslands kallar hér eftir tillögum af hvers kyns tagi, kynningum á rannsóknum sem eru í gangi eða hafa verið framkvæmdar af starfsfólki okkar, nemendum og samstarfsaðilum.
Instability can be a creative force in art, design, and architecture. Artists, designers, and scholars work both with and against systems that are ever-changing, fragile, or unpredictable. Whether dealing with technological systems, ecosystems, social structures, or sensory experiences, instability is often a prerequisite for creation.
Instability opens pathways for new ideas and processes, reshaping how we approach and redesign the systems that shape our lives. It can also refer to the creative act itself—one that does not follow predetermined trajectories or established norms. Art, design, and architecture serve as tools to disrupt stable systems and/or shed new light on systems that appear stable but in reality, they are not. No system is truly stable, and when we resist that instability, it becomes a problem. Instability is perhaps the only certainty we can rely on.
Hugarflug 2025 will be a platform for research that engages with instability across various systems—from technological advancements such as AI and interactive systems to issues related to politics, society, and the environment. We will explore how instability functions as a tool for generating new possibilities while also fueling unrest and transformation within society and academia. The Iceland University of the Arts invites proposals of all kinds, including presentations of ongoing or completed research by our faculty, students, and collaborators.
Keynote: Ellen Johanne Røed
Keynote: Andri Snær Magnason
Rector, Stockholm University of the Arts
Ellen Johanne Røed is a professor in Film and Media and leads the research project Image as Site, based in the Subject Area of Film and Media at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and funded by the Swedish Research Council. Her artistic research centers on the moving image and unfolds across a range of artistic disciplines—including visual arts, music, theatre, film, dance, and media art—often through interdisciplinary collaborations. As a result, her work is both deeply rooted in specific disciplines and inherently cross-disciplinary.
Ethical concerns in artistic research have long been central to her practice. Together with Rebecca Hilton, she explored these issues in the research project Together Forever: Artistic Research, Documentation, and Ethics, which they presented at the ELIA Biennial in 2023. Ellen Johanne Røed serves on the steering group of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, which she helped initiate, as well as the strategic council of the KK Foundation and ELIA’s working group for Artistic Research.
Since 1995, Ellen Johanne Røed has been active in the field of art, and since 2004 in artistic education and research. In 2016, she joined Stockholm University of the Arts as a profile professor responsible for the area Art, Technology and Materiality, and led the doctoral programme until 2022. Previously, she served on the board of the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, where she contributed to the establishment of a national interdisciplinary research school, strategic development initiatives, and funding of artistic research. She has also played a key role in organizing the Nordic Summer School for Artistic Research (SAAR) and served on the Swedish Ethical Review Board from 2020 to 2022.
Writer and documentary film director.
Andri Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, non fiction and science fiction. His work has been published or performed in more than 40 languages and he has won the Icelandic Literary Awards in all categories.
Andri has received international awards like the Philip K Dick honorary mention for LoveStar, the Prima Tiziano Terzani in Italy for On Time and Water and The Green Earth Book Award for his books for children.
He is the co-director of three documentary films that have premiered in international festivals like IDFA, RIFF, CPH:DOX and HOTDOCS.
Andri has been active in the fight to preserve the highlands of Iceland and raising awareness about our fast changing climate. His eulogy for the first glacier that Iceland lost to climate change, the Ok glacier was shared by millions in 2019.
