Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK is a collaborating international partner in the Austrian artistic artistic research project Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT), lead by Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò. ALMAT aims at understanding the increasing influence of algorithms, translating them into aesthetic positions in sound. It builds a new perspective on algorithm agency by subjecting the realm of algorithms to experimentation and diffractive reading. Algorithms are everywhere today,…

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Iris Brinkborg, Hedvig Hanson Johannesson, Helle Lindskog og Isabella Solar Villaseca have been working at BEK for over a week with their project Climb Every Mountain. The project is work in progress, and Thursday evening they invite us into their process!     ѧѦ ѧ ︵͡︵ ̢ ̱ ̧̱ι̵̱̊ι̶̨̱ ̶̱ ︵ Ѧѧ ︵͡ ︵ ѧ Ѧ ̵̗̊o̵̖ ︵ ѦѦ ѧ  …

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In this one-day workshop, you will make creations in the unique environment of the Commodore 64 and translate these shapes and forms into physical objects. The workshop is led by artist Raquel Meyers, and is second part of the workshop series Digicraft.

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In and Out of Space: Critical Approaches to Spatiality in Sound and Image is a two day doctoral training workshop at the University of Aberdeen, and features keynotes, workshops and performances by Professor Paul Koonce (University of Florida), Trond Lossius (BEK) and Johannes Deutsch.

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Learn to build an instrument and customize it: The DIY-instrument can function as synth voice, as a lo-fi sample player or 8 bit drum machine. The workshop is a collaboration between Bergen Public Library and BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Art.

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During Borealis, Signe Lidén and Espen Sommer Eide present a new work utilizing a series of mobile meteorological music instruments and performative microphones. Using Fjell festning as a place, they investigate how sound is shaped by, and resonates in various environments. The work is developed at BEK, and commissioned by Sonic Acts and Dark Ecology.

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Facing us on stage: a musician. He plays electronica. Works his machines like a hacker. But we can see him much better on screen. There, reality is different, and constantly changing. The performance is co-produced by BEK, with BIT Teatergarasjen. A version was also shown at Oktoberdans 2016.

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Due to health issues this workshop unfortunately is postponed. “ ‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ ˮ is a workshop/training resulting in a 14 hour performance, which itself is a coalescence and practical demonstration of the techniques and strategies developed during the preceding days. This workshop and performance will show you what you know, and what you don’t know that you know!

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In her solo exhibition “Standard Primitives”, Magnhild Øen Nordahl presents three new works made especially for this exhibition at Hordaland kunstsenter: A sculpture series, an animation film and a video work. Filming and editing is supported by BEK. In the video work The Distance to the Horizon, we find ourselves at sea, with only waves and the horizon in sight.…

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I have left you the mountain presents ten new texts written by contemporary writers and thinkers on the architecture of displacement. These texts have been set to music and sung by some of the last remaining groups of Albanian iso-polyphonic singers, an art form now protected as “intangible cultural heritage” by UNESCO. Pavilion sound design and programming by Peter Meanwell…

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