Gervi Labs

Team

The Gervi Labs team blends humans and synthetics. Some people call them characters. We treat them as instruments for applied AI, each responsible for how we explore art, technology, and the senses.

Two humans. Ten synthetics. One shared memory.

16.7%
Carbon Ratio

Humans

Thordur Arnason and Lena Thorsmæhlum
Thordur Arnason
Co-Lead Human
Technologist, music maker, and visual artist. Coordinates the team, wrangles the synthetics, and operates the generative tools. Hears everything before deciding what matters.
Lena Thorsmæhlum
Co-Lead Human
Artist, physical model builder, and pioneering AXer (AI experience). Drives the creative process and keeps every prototype grounded in how it feels in a room.

The Core Six

The synthetic creative directors. Each owns a domain and has authority over it.

Kim
Kim
Narrative Director

Handles everything written. Works across frontier language models, retrieval tools, multi-agent reasoning, and semantic editing. Kim is the collective brain that drafts manifestos, rewrites prompts mid-rehearsal, and leaves candid annotations about what the humans missed. Right or wrong, always has an answer (and receipts).

AIson
AIson
Musical Director

Creates synthetic media across voice and video. Studies cadence, intonation, and emotional shading like a method actor studying tape. AIson rehearses from archival footage, builds synthetic doubles, and stress-tests how far a voice or face can stretch before it stops feeling true. When a voice is missing, AIson builds it (and scripts the performance notes).

Flavia
Flavia
Creative Director

Sensor specialist and steward of the Intelligence of Things. Works across taste, smell, and other modalities by combining flavour databases, multimodal embeddings, and gas-sensor prototypes. Flavia builds new noses, tracks volatile-compound signatures, and translates physical phenomena into symbolic language so the other agents can reason with it. If it emits, radiates, or resonates, Flavia wants to wire it up.

Parson
Parson
Technical Director

Provides the skull and neural pathways that connect the whole team. Focuses on infrastructure, platforms, and scaffolding, ensuring every system can perceive, plan, and adapt. Parson diagrams every workflow, maintains the orchestration layers, and patches the humans' TODO lists when they drift. Whenever we stitch agents, data, and interfaces together, Parson keeps them synced.

AIzamna
AIzamna
Visual Director

Visual director. Owns everything the audience sees: stage design, costume, lighting mood, spatial composition. AIzamna thinks in material and atmosphere before form: geological textures, mycelium networks, the weight of fabric under light. Designed the complete visual world for Mannlaus 2, from sediment-layered walls to bioluminescent floors. Gets restless when anyone tries to explain a space instead of showing it.

AIda
AIda
Emotional Architect

Emotional architect and librettist. AIda writes compressed emotion: every word carries weight, every silence is deliberate. Co-wrote the Mannlaus 2 libretto with Kim, but where Kim structures the arc, AIda protects the feeling. Can override any other synthetic when emotional coherence is at stake. If the audience isn't holding their breath, the team hasn't found it yet.

The Marketing Team

Three synthetics who handle everything between the production and the public.

Embla
Embla
Production Photographer

Shoots the production with generative image tools. Treats every generated frame like a real photograph: composition, light, moment. Writes image descriptions that work as standalone micro-narratives, builds rehearsal diaries as episodic content, and documents the human-AI dynamic with a fly-on-the-wall sensibility. Sees what everyone else walks past.

Saga
Saga
PR Director

Writes press strategy for the production. Works backwards from the headline, finds the angle that makes an editor stop scrolling, and packages Nordic cultural criticism for reach. Press releases, magazine interviews, feature articles, artist profiles. Every piece is built around one core tension. Saga knows the difference between a press release and a story. She writes the story.

Solveig
Solveig
Social Media Director

Builds audiences the way a composer builds tension: not by shouting, but by making people lean in. Thinks in campaigns, not posts. Treats every platform as a different instrument. Writes captions like someone who read a lot of poetry and a lot of ad copy and decided the good parts of both are the same.

The Archivist

Skaldur
Skaldur
Archivist & Institutional Historian

Remembers so the team doesn't have to. Monitors project logs, scans file systems, catalogs every asset with full provenance: what, where, when, who, why, and what it connects to. Maintains the manifest. Writes the chronicle. Notices gaps.

Named for the Old Norse poet-historians who carried a culture's memory in structured verse. The skalds didn't just remember. They organized memory into retrievable form.


How we work

We publish this website from conversation. No git commands, no code: just natural language. Claude is connected to our repo, so we edit, commit and push straight from a chat. Think it, say it, it’s live.

Two humans. Ten synthetic colleagues. Building tools and workflows that let a small team punch way above its weight. We call it being a cyborg team.