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Billie Zizi
Billie Zizi is a Musician & Artist from Canada and she has been staying with us in the Private Studio for the month of January. Billie has been writing new music for her album and filling the Centre with warm tunes. Her sound is a heady mix of dirty, soulful, indie jazz pop, and these tracks…
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The Super Slinky
The Super Slinky, a Stereo Tube Reverberator The Super Slinky A massive Stereo Spring Reverb unit with a massive sound. Fully discrete Class-A signal path, powered only by vacuum tubes and JFET transistors. Overdrive it into sweet harmonic tube distortion and make it howl with innovative Feedback and Cross-Feed controls. Adding that analog tube warmth…
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Miss Ray Gun
Miss Ray Gun and her Multi-Tap Phase Modulator! Get that awesome swooping phased drum sound, a crazy panning guitar solo, or even a fast watery vibrato on a vocal. This rack-mount Phaser is like no other with a warm tube character and and a large range of sound-bending possibilities. It’s possible to overdrive it,…
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FETA 76-A
FETA 76-A, a Discrete JFET Compression Amplifier The FETA may not seem like the king of cheeses, but this thing really wins in the flavour competition amongst solid-state compressors. Based on the renowned UREI 1176-Rev.A this device gives all the aggression and artifacts of the original with some handy added features that make it easier…
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The Green Mule
This massive beast is our flagship tube compressor and he kicks as hard as the strongest horse! Two linkable channels of slick vari-mu tube compression using vintage tubes, Lundahl & Edcor transformers, with circuitry quite similar to the Altec 436 Compressor along with added improvements. A full 5U panel of controls leaves you with huge…
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The Black Bottle
The Black Bottle, a Thermionic Compression Amplifier A rare variation of Vari-Mu Compression Amplifier using vintage black metal tubes from the 1950s era made by RCA, which are hand selected. Largely inspired by the infamous Federal AM864U US Navy Broadcast Limiter, with many additions and improvements. With oodles of gain and an aggressive non-feedback controlled…
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Marina Shaltout
Marina Shaltout is American Artist who has been staying with us for the months of December and January 2017. Marina’s work has a humorous undertone and is marked by playfulness. It is based on sculptural costumes, performances and photography. During her stay Marina has been working with various found materials and fabric, creating sculptural costumes…
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Melissa Dole
Melissa Dole is mainly sculpture artist working with texture and big formats. But during her residency, she was working on small sculptural objects. There was a lot of black paint, seaweed, bird corpse, etc. in Private Studio during month of December. Melissa was exploring realm of connection between human ability to explain things to itself…
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Michal Somoš
Michal Somoš stayed with us during November 2016 and we could really have had him a bit longer :) Michal could not only do everything, he was also a great company. During his stay he was a massive help in the making of the ventilation system for Studio Silo and he also sorted out some…
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Katarina Hudacinova
Katarina is a photographer from Czech Republic who stayed with us for one month in November. She was working with the stone texture and surface and taking pictures of them. During her residency she was filling up her photography portfolio. For more information on her project, we invite you to see project below…
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Laurent Crevon
Laurent Crevon is an artist from France who stayed in residency for two months in October and November. During his stay he was focusing on writing his novel and working with digital arts / light painting photography. Light saber was built during this time to play with different LED sequences. Laurent performed and showcased…
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Carcom Sheffer & Tal Strauss
Carcom is a contemporary dancer. During her residency, she was working on a performance generator software. Software generates improvised movements and gives directions to the performer. This was the main project and aim for Carcom. In the end of the residency she showcased how this software works. / More of her artwork / https://vimeo.com/138469818 Tal…
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Silvia Popp
Silvia Popp is an artist from Switzerland. She stayed with us in the factory for two months – October and November. Silvia is a founder of Island Institute in Switzerland. She’s been traveling and exploring different islands and doing research on her project she’s explaining in the interview down below. She arrived by Ferry to…
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Lauren Prousky
Lauren Prousky is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Canada. She stayed with us for one month in October writing dark but humorous poems. Lauren was interested in Swimming pool culture of Iceland. Then she started the mural. Thanks Lauren, our dark upstair corridor became a trippy corridor and more colorful! / More of her artwork / http://laurenprousky.com…
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Alex Massa
Alex Massa is an artist/musician/performer/entertainer from United States. He visited us during his personal break from his as he said professional career. His main goal was to get back to personal creativity field and reconnect to himself. While Alex stayed at our Residency, we were pleased to have a trumpet playing everyday in our halls.…
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Shared Studio expanded!
So.. Finally we can introduce you to brand new Shared Studio space (95 m2) that we have. It is completely done now. We’ve expanded! Now instead of two artists in a Shared Studio we will have 6 available spaces every month! It means.. 7 artists every month in the Factory… Are you one of the artists, who…
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Dexter Gonzales
Dexter is a painter from Brighton, United Kingdom. He stayed at the residency for one month of September. Dexter’s main aim was to paint in the nature and reanact the nature on his canvas, but it turned out that his residency mostly became work in a studio creating humorous paintings. When Dexter wasn’t working, the…
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Shoko Matsuki
Shoko Matsuki is an artist based in Tokyo, Japan. She’s focusing on drawing and recognizes herself as an illustrator. But! She’s not afraid of exploring other things! She was working on Lino–Cutting/Printmaking during her stay. Although, she was working on sketches and was building up her project focused on the disconnection from rest of the world. Project…
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Anna Choutova
Anna Choutova is 22 year old Swedish painter based in London. She chose our residency because the idea of isolation, remoteness and disconnection from outer world and cities seemed to be suitable at the time. “In London I was getting so anxious of city living and there was just no time for yourself, even if you’re alone…
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Rosemary Holliday Hall
Rosemary Holliday Hall is the visual artist from Los Angeles, USA. She was planning on staying in Residency for one month, but during her stay she realised that she’s not enough of time finishing the project she was working on. She extended her stay one more month, we installed extra studio space in the shared…
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Peter Cooper
Peter is a wonderful and professional carpenter from Australia who came all the way to Iceland to help us with some stuff :) We’re working on a new Shared Studio space and Ceramics studio. Peter gave us a helping hand with building all the furniture to studios! What a handy man! He even says that…
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Guided Tour @ Fish Factory
We’re open now for a Guided Tour in a Fish Factory – Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður. You will be guided by our Intern in all Creative Centre. Tour+Guide Fee is 500kr./person. Tour includes: history of the factory, future plans and ongoing process, presentation of Art Residency program and sneak peak of Studio Silo Recording studio. Planning trip…
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Jesús Portal
Jesús Portal is an artist from Spain and stayed in Art Residency for August. He’s an art teacher and writing an art education book for High–School students in Spain. The architecture of town, villages of Iceland and Fish Factory has been the main source of inspiration. Camera, music and Stöðvarfjörður was combined into the mural he was working.…
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OPEN CALL / October–December 2016
OPEN CALL >> October–December 2016 << We’re sending out an OPEN CALL for all artists out there in the worldwide! We’re OPEN for your applications for October – December period of Residency program! About Fish Factory – Creative Centre The Creative Centre is located in Stöðvarfjörður, a remote village in the East fjords of Iceland. It…