YAIC 2013
This year's conference, starting Monday 28 Oct., will take place in the days leading up to the popular music festival Iceland Airwaves.
This year's conference, starting Monday 28 Oct, will take place in the days leading up to the popular music festival Iceland Airwaves.
You Are in Control is an annual conference where artists, people from the creative industries and others with interest in the field can mingle and share their experiences and ideas.
The creative industries often call for different approaches when it comes to work habits, marketing and the day-to-day management of companies in the field, and the conference offers a platform for discussion of this. The speaking roster is comprised of experts in their respective fields, and the conference's workshops explicitly encourage open discussion and the untrammeled exchange of ideas.
This year's conference will take place in the days leading up to the popular music festival Iceland Airwaves. YAIC is a cross-disciplinary platform for the creative industries, ranging from literature, music digital art, design, cuisine to film, video games and investment in the field. Some of the projected topics are new developments, emerging overlaps between fields and looming problems on the horizon.
This year's roster includes Robert Foster (The Go-Betweens, Australia), Kristen Harrison (The Curved House, Germany / UK), Seth Jackson (Strange Thoughts, UK), Julia Payne (the hub, UK), Oliver Luckett (theAudience, UK), Ingi Rafn Sigurdsson (Karolina Fund, Iceland) and Frosti Gnarr (Frosti Gnarr Studio / Grotta Zine, Iceland).
Promote Iceland organizes YAIC in collaboration with the Icelandic Literature Center, Iceland Music Export, Iceland Design Center, Icelandic Art Center, Icelandic Film Center, Iceland Theater Association, Icelandic Gaming Industry and Iceland Music Information Center.