Pop-up Village | Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
An experiential analog for the interplanetary age
A CO-CREATION CONTAINER FOR DESIGNERS OF THE FUTURE
The Portal at Iceland Eclipse is an analog space mission where artists, astronauts, innovators, and builders come together to rehearse the future of human life, and co-create what will be carried forward as humanity moves beyond Earth.
Through community living, deep collaboration, and worldbuilding, participants co-create installations, rituals, and activations that integrate into the festival, experienced by a global audience.
Artists. Technologists. Scientists. Aliens. Storytellers. Elves. Builders. Visionaries.
Each being who enters The Portal brings curiosity, courage, and skill to explore new ways of living and creating within this reality and future states of consciousness and planes of existence.
Our home base is The Freezer, a community hub in the village of Rif on Iceland's Snæfellsnes Peninsula, where the North Atlantic meets the glacier-crowned volcano Snæfellsjökull.
From here, the landscape becomes a collaborator. This month-long immersion is designed to dissolve the usual constraints so that what emerges is shaped by abundance, imagination, and pure possibility.
Kári Viðarsson
Owner of the Freezer, Icelandic actor, artistic director & theatre owner based in Iceland
Dr. Sian Proctor
SpaceX Astronaut, geology professor, artist, author, and creator of J.E.D.I. space
Android Jones
Digital and multimedia artist and leading figure in the visionary arts movement
Ron Garan
NASA astronaut, author, and speaker inspiring a shift in mindsets and expanding horizons
Dr Chrispy
Award-winning aeronautical engineer, music producer, songwriter, and Blue Origin Astronaut
Brien Egan
Prototyping a new relationship with community
Waldorf School Director & Childcare Specialist
Jayne Morrow
Prototyping a new relationship with society
CEO of the Applied Quantum CORE (QCORE) at Montana State University
Madeline Fountain
Prototyping a new relationship with immersive art
Multidisciplinary installation artist and art therapist
Alysha Shugart
Prototyping a new relationship with the stars
Modern astrophysics and Indigenous astronomy researcher
Jessica de Jarnette
Prototyping a new relationship with healing
Physician and systems change leader
Elizabeth MacDonald
Prototyping a new relationship with celestial phenomena
Aurorasaurus founder and NASA heliophysicist
Zoey Wind
Prototyping a new relationship with culture and community
Master Astrologer, Astronomer, and Experience Designer
MaryLiz Bender
Prototyping a new relationship with awe
Chief Experience Officer - IMXP
A way for the cosmos to know itself.
Mitch Morales
Community support
Festival founder building IMXP, producing space, tech, and futurist gatherings worldwide. Previously founded festivals and tech companies.
Laila Keren
Yogini, beatnik bluesoligist
Shape-shifter, problem solver, and passionate lover of nature, ancient wisdom, movement, and collective healing. Spreading unconditional love through all dreamtime stories.
Frank Weber
Artist, Breath Practitioner, Technologist
Frank creates art from breath using water, ink, light, and elemental matter. Founder of Aeris Studio and Your Next Breath, based in Austin, TX.
Emma Guido
Resident Producer
Resident producer at The Portal.
Andrianna Kaimis
Videographer & Photographer
Documenting the quiet poetry between nature and humans.
Flo Lopez
Photographer, Artist, Web Developer
Exploring the intersection of science, art, quantum physics, and wellness. Lover of music, photography, space, food, and nature.
Isa Cali
Founder, One Light Tribe & Sacha Retreats
Shamanic guide and plant medicine facilitator with 14 years of experience in sound healing, channeling, QHHT, and sacred retreat spaces. Founder of Sacha retreat center in Guatemala.
Annaleise G
A temporary art object described as "a wacky pattern on god's most luxurious silk shirt." Here to connect, cathect, and find the prettiest rock in Iceland.
Yuki Ainge
Builder, aerial and flow artist
Hawaii-raised MSc student in Sustainable Energy Engineering. Van-lifer, aerial artist, and creator of all sorts of things, currently based between Europe and the world.
Cam 'Beej' McLaughlin
Drummer, analog experience curator
Drummer for 40 years, Handpan player with Black Light Jellyfish. Student of Tabla, Tama, and Dunun. Channels universal love through rhythm.
Jessica Jacobsen
Senior Project Engineer
Alaska Native, Senior Project Engineer in South Australia. Part of the 1.5% of Alaska Natives with a graduate degree. Brought water and wastewater infrastructure to rural Alaska.
Devin Person
Wizard
Living his life as an answer to the question "what would a wizard do?" Putting the mystery back in magic, one pointy hat at a time.
Abby Lutz
RN, Doula
Portal Doula and nurse. Harm reduction, first aid, and set and setting. Believes mastering the fear of death is how humanity expands into the cosmos.
Kirsten Berg
Artist
Creates large-scale reflective sculpture exploring collective seeing and the dissolution of boundaries. Her work lives in sunlight and is explicitly conceived for the sun.
Fei'Ara Violet
Ceremonial systems architect
Multidisciplinary facilitator working at the intersection of embodied performance, sacred land, and collective coherence. Leads immersive pilgrimages and designs ceremonial architectures. Based in Egypt.
Elnara Nasirli
Artist
Environmental technology artist working across painting, sculpture, collage, and installation to construct biomorphic realms at the intersection of biotechnology and mixed media.
Elizabeth Kilkenny
Polymath creator
Explores art, technology, and human systems from chainmail jewelry to AI and global governance policy. Follows curiosity wherever it leads.
Nike Alade
Drawn to event planning, music festivals, and genuine human connection.
Josh Whiton
Autodidactic polymath
Working on planetary regeneration through MakeSoil.org and using locally running AI to optimize the human mind.
Sudheer Katta
Wellness facilitator, Reiki practitioner
Community organiser and wellness facilitator running Reiki, yoga, breathwork, and sound healing sessions at festivals including Boomtown and Wilderness.
Amy Baldwin Egan
Co-director, Brave New School
Art teacher and co-director of Brave New School. Managing the children's area of The Portal and the festival.
Ignacia Cabrera
Nutritionist, music therapist, DJ
Creator of gastromusical nutrition, blending food, music, and emotional self-regulation into immersive lab experiences. Based in Barcelona.
kyter steffes
Multidisciplinary artist
Multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of music and architecture.
Devika Katta
Yoga teacher, product manager
Yoga teacher, product manager, and digital nomad drawn to experiences that connect people across cultures.
Parag Bhandari
Musician, entrepreneur
Musician, entrepreneur, and wannabe airline pilot.
Rob Gordon
Music industry veteran, developer
Career in the music business as record label, manager, and producer. Also brings expertise in influence systems and city design from his work as a developer.
Kyle Kreuter
Has experienced solar eclipses as truly profound and comes to help this community celebrate celestial events.
Alexi Ayala
Medical massage, healer
Healer and medical massage practitioner here to share wisdom, connect visions, and unite manifestations.
Kate Snyder
Prototyping a new relationship with sound
Co-founder, Vibralizer
PhD in cultural evolution using birdsong as a model system. Co-building Vibralizer, a music visualizer focused on audio-representative visuals.
Nick Pettit
Prototyping a new relationship with sound
Co-founder, Vibralizer
Lead Unity Developer at BUCK and co-founder of Vibralizer. Shipped award-winning titles across Steam, mobile, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and VR. Lives at the intersection of art and technology.
James Ellington
The Portal Production
David Leach
Nicholas Smith
Menahem Wrona
Esa Hall
Max Hartmann
Caroline McMillan
Crystal Campbell
Andrew Glenn
Dr. Chris Boshuizen
Australian scientist, explorer, entrepreneur, investor, educator, and musician
Ari Eisenstat & Family
Futurist Human Spaceflight Instructor and Space for Humanity Advisor Chair
Celeste Elizabeth
Psychic spiritual muse channeling earth's rhythms helping humanity make this world a better place
Michael Turner
Founder of Torvante Group, bringing ibogaine to the world of brain injury recovery
We are looking for Patrons who want to build the future by investing in the people shaping it.
We have assembled a remarkable crew of emerging artists, innovators, astronauts, technologists, and builders, to innovate solutions for the future.
Our mission is to uplift these creators by removing their barriers to entry and supporting their project costs.
To prototype a self-sustaining, co-created community that values curiosity, collaboration, and beauty as essential survival tools. Together, we will harness the awe of Iceland’s once-in-a-century total solar eclipse and the surrounding volcanic landscape to spark innovative co-creation. Inside The Portal at Iceland Eclipse, we will gather a curated constellation of artists, technologists, scientists, and cultural catalysts united by a shared purpose: to prototype a future rooted in harmony with place, planet, and possibility.
