Durative Exercises is one weekend of art and music in the old villa in Kalfarlien 18, the 20th to the 22th of September. The villa is slowly changing from a private home in to a house for the arts. The metamorphose begins parallel to the Bergen Assembly, with a broad range of artistic content between the 30th of august until the end of October inside and outside the house from 1909 .
Augmented spatiality is a public sound art project for the suburb of Hökarängen in Stockholm in which the artworks, performances and other comprised events are integrated into the social and spatial processes taking place in the public sphere. It is curated by María Andueza, and two artists from Bergen participate. Trond Lossius will be doing a temporary sound installation at the metro station in Hökarängen, while Cecilia Jonsson will be making use of window shops in Hökarängsplan.
BEK is happy to announce that Anders Elsrud Hultgreen will be working at BEK to develop a video artwork.
DOPPLER aims to develop a unique installation under upcoming Bergen Assembly’s umbrella. BEK supports the development of the project with equipments and working space.
BEK and PNEK support Natasha Barrett’s participation in SMC13 (Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013) in Stockholm this summer. She will present the composition Hidden Value, developed during an artist residency at IRCAM in 2012. Natasha Barrett has recently received a five-year grant for working with spatial audio in electroacoustic music, music with live electronics and sound art, and her artistic research is carried out in collaboration with BEK.
Ellen Røed will show the result of her Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme with the exhibition Skyvelære at Galleri 3,14 in Bergen. BEK has supported the project with project space, studio facilities, and with technical assistance for the rigging of the exhibition. The opening is on Thursday 13th June at 19.00
The object becomes the plane, the light will be given to the darkness, the silence reflects sound.
Overgangen, is an exploration of the distance between black and white, between light and darkness. We close ourselves in, in one of Bergen’s historic chambers and drape the windows.
BEK, the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, would like to invite local artists to send in a proposal for the commision of a video/artwork, to be produced at BEK and subsequently screened at SCREEN CITY Festival, Stavanger, 25 Oct – 5 Nov 2013. The proposal should be for the production of a new video/artwork, its vital that the work should be presented in public space.
Nora Adwan is on the first year MA at KHiB and is exhibiting an installation at Galleri Bokboden;
BEK has commissioned a new electro-acoustic composition from Anders Vinjar, one of the foremost experts in Norway on OpenMusic and computer-aided composition. The commisioned work will make use of ambisonics coding, shaping and decoding, algorithmic composition, artistic programming and work with 3D sound and spatialization.
BEK also supports Anders in his effort to port Open Music to Linux, and over the next year we are planning several exciting workshops relating to OpenMusic.