Sól Ey (b. 1996) is a composer, performer and new media artist from Iceland. She makes performances, interactive installations, and designs instruments that combine sound, space, movement, light and the body. Often working with sensors and new technologies, her work emphasises immersion, participation, and social interaction. Currently, her artistic research focuses on the possibilities of the human body when extended with electronics or objects.

Sól Ey’s works have been performed at festivals such as Nordic Music Days, Rewire (NL), Reykjavik Art Festival (IS), Dark Music Days (IS), NEXT (SK), Today’s Art (NL), Gaudeamus (NL), Ung Nordisk Musik (DK, IS, NO, SE), Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival (GL), and commissioned by Instrument Inventors Initative (NL), Ensemble Modelo62 (NL), and Erkitíð (IS). She was an artist-in-residence at the Spatial Sound Institute (Budapest 2018) and Instrument Inventor’s Initiative (The Hague 2021), Sound Art Lab (Struer 2022), Danish Dance Theatre (Copenhagen 2023) and a research fellow at the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Dortmund 2022). Moreover, she has worked with art groups such as Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), Maze Ensemble, and Ableton, and was an intern for German composer-director Heiner Goebbels. Sól Ey studied composition at the Iceland University of the Arts and Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in 2021.

Parallel to her artistic work, Sól Ey is active as a curator and organiser. She is the founder of RASK, a collective of Icelandic artists working with art and technology. Furthermore, she has been a guest curator for Raflost Electronic Art Festival in Reykjavik and NEXT festival in Bratislava, chairperson of UNM Iceland (2020-2022) and was the festival leader of the Ung Nordisk Musik festival in Reykjavik 2022.

(Soley Sigurjonsdottir)