Curated Place (UK) is a creative production company specializing in developing, delivering, managing and marketing major projects across international borders and with numerous partners. They commission and present new visual art across Europe and beyond, and have successfully developed city-‐wide projects for major institutions and establishments taking projects from concept through to delivery leaving meaningful legacy for all partners involved. It has founded and developed a Northern European professional development program for contemporary classical composers “Collaborative Compositions” which connects Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the UK, led the Moving Classics European Network for New Music, produces the multi-‐award-‐winning Spectra Festival and North Atlantic Flux genre bending music festival in the UK.
Einkofi Production (Iceland) An independent arts organization based in Southern Iceland who work with music, art, design, technology, literature, performance and education. Coming together under our umbrella they use the shining lights of the Nordic creative scene to create roads into the more obscure, left-‐field and risk-‐taking innovators. Einkofi events demonstrably create spaces for friendships, conversation and sharing of ideas to CURATED PLACE – Moving Classics: Sonic Flux (MCSF) 14 bloom and they have the skills, platforms and networks to support the new co-‐operations, collaborations and co-‐productions that blossom beyond the moment. They seek to promote a contemporary sense of being Nordic, looking outwards from Iceland and the Nordic Region to an international creative conversation. Their philosophy of sustainable, elegant, effective partnerships has seen the effective running of Handmade sounds project for the Nordic Council of Ministers, developing projection artworks with Danish Performance centre Warehouse 9, animating heritage spaces with Icelandic lighting designers Myrkraverk and co-‐producing the North Atlantic Pavilion for Liverpool Biennial, as well as regularly collaborating with Curated Place on festivals and events.
CultureTones Organisation (Cyprus) is a non-‐profit cultural organisation based in Cyprus that aims to promote classical and contemporary music and performing arts of the highest level and develop a contemporary thinking and a modern approach to art. Beside the collaboration with accomplished and well-‐known artists, CultureTones Organisation gives opportunities to many young and up-‐and-‐coming artists to present their work, encouraging development of arts and education in Cyprus. CultureTones Organisation is the organizer of the Avaton International Contemporary Music Festival, a Limassol based festival that has attracted national and international attention.
Blekksprut1 (Norway) productions is a cultural and creative industry entrepreneurial organisation based in the Oslo region (Asker Municipality) of Norway. blekksprut1 productions is an expert in production and delivery of unique cultural experiences to a broad audience in public spaces. We work with high impact projects to promote change and development in the intersection between art and culture, technology and innovation and entrepreneurship. The organisation establishes key partnerships, both locally and internationally, to create unique experiences which inspire the audience and participants, providing a platform for collaborative skill development and delivery.
Together with our network of multidiscipline artists and the local entrepreneurial community, we deliver the magical Factory Light Festival in September each year. This festival consists of around 20-30 multidisciplinary works for all ages from projection mapping to live performances and interactive installations with a thematic cultural dialogue underpinning the selection of works each year. Blekksprut1 productions has curated and delivered 60+ light art pieces together with local and international artists from concept to audience experience as part of Norway’s light art scene as an end to end light art production studio using lean methodology to optimise art production and delivery.