Antye Greie-Ripatti

artist, curator, composer, poet, feminist and network weaver. She is also known as AGF, Laub and @poemproducer. 

Born in 1969 and raised in East Germany, she has lived and worked in Hailuoto, Finland since 2008. She works with language, sound, hearing, voice, moving image, poetry and communication, which finds expression in mixed media, live audiovisual performances, digital communication, sound installations, commissions for radio, film and theatre, exhibitions and conceptual works. Greie-Ripatti has released more than 30 albums and has been involved in numerous collaborations, including under the pseudonyms AGF, AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut) and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue), including - for an extended period - with award-winning classical composer Craig Armstrong. She runs the media art production company and music label AGF Producktion. For her artistic work, she received the ars electronica award twice, including a grand prix.

In 2011, Greie-Ripatti founded the rural arts organisation Hai Art in Hailuoto, where she served as artistic director, executive producer and workshop leader until 2020. With Hai Art she has organised a conference on remote art, more than ten artist-in-residencies, an extensive sound programme with children in Hailuoto, the iPad Orchestra Hailuoto, Organum, the Hailuoto (mini) MediaLAB and numerous artist camps. AGF has worked as an independent curator of sound since 2011. Since 2020, she has been facilitating the internet exhibition project rec-on.org with a focus on sound-political listening and being. She continues to write radio pieces, dance pieces and hosts workshops, teaches and lectures.