2013

Släden

Släden

Saturday October 12, 2013. With this tool, I try to explore the landscape nature in a more filmic and painterly narrative way. From 14:00-17:00, visual artist Björn Olsson (SE) will invite you into his portable studio and fieldkitchen for a presentation of his camera sled and track system for still photography called Släden (produced in 2012). At this occasion the track system will be installed in the garden area behind Skaftfell. A camera is mounded on the sled, and a built-in computer controls the speed of the camera. The rails can be set up in different constellations and can therefore be adapted to […]

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Radiotelegraph – 107.1 FM

Radiotelegraph is a beacon simulcast by a private low-watt transmitter in Seyðisfjörður (around 107.1 FM) and by the experimental radio platform Radius in Chicago (88.9 FM) at sundown Seyðisfjörður time, from October 7-11. 1906 was not only the year that Seyðisfjörður connected to Europe via trans-oceanic telegraph cable, it was also the year of the first audio transmission of the human voice by wireless means undertaken by Reginald Fessenden on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean at Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Voice, electronics, and radio signals by Anna Friz, all recorded and mixed at Hóll, Seyðisfjörður. Anna Friz is a […]

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