A small team has been formed to make an outdoor sound sculpture. The working title of the project is “Archangelica”. The creation of the sounds will be based on rain hitting the metal surface of the sculpture. A workshop took place in Fitjar on the 25th and the 26th of January.
BEK is working with the great artists, Christine Istad and Lisa Pacini, on welcoming the sun to Bergen. The sun is arriving at 14.30 pm tomorrow, the 22th of February with Hurtigruta…
For a two year period 2012-2014 BEK participation in the development of Jamoma is supported by Hordaland County Council. Development will be focusing on control of real-time processing environments in live productions, development of flexible interfaces, and work on surround sound. The project encompass development, documentation, developer and training workshops, and the use of Jamoma in various art projects.
BEK and Bergen Public Library collaborates on development of Les HØYT!, an arena for reading aloud. Citizens of Bergen and users of the library will be invited to contribute towards a collective reading of litterature for an unknown audience by means of a digital installation.
Reading activities will commence during the fall 2013. Stian Remvik has been hired by BEK to do the technical development. Les Høyt! is supported by National Library of Norway and Arts Council Norway.
Galleri s12 and BEK will show video art in the windows of Galleri s12 throughout January 2013. The exhibition is curated by Terese Longva (s12) and Anne Marthe Dyvi (BEK).
Over the last year Victoria Johnson, Trond Lossius and others have collaborated on a pilot artistic research project exploring the possibilities of using the K-Bow sensor bow with electric violin. Sensor and audio data is further analysed using Gesture Follower software developed at Ircam.
Monday December 3 they give a work-in-progress report and demo session at Norwegian Academy of Music.
The artist Peter Flemming will come to BEK and lead one day workshop with high experimentation factor; Fredag 23rd of November / 11-16.
Electromagnetism, experimental speaker, found material, ready-mades, ressonans, DIY, lunch, art, BEK, Peter Flemming, you.
Bergen Center for Electronic Arts have curated an exhibition for Ephemeral Sustainability, a conference about presenting, documenting, collecting and archiving electronic/soundbased/ephemeral art in Bergen. The conference is produced/programmed and hosted by Lydgalleriet.
Over the summer Birk has provided live video for a number of concerts at festivals in Norway and abroad, working with the jazz trio Jøkleba, the bands Vanilla Riot, The Megaphonic Thrift, Young Dreams and The New Wine, as well as rap artist Lars Vaular.
Rad#4 er et sekstimers kunstarrangement i Latinskolen fra 1706, i Mesterlektien, den 16.juni kl 18.00.
Programmet består av opplesninger fra tekster valgt ut av et antall inviterte lesere. Utvalget er igjen satt sammen til en komposisjon av opplesning, foredrag, lyd, musikk, mat, performative grep, poesi og film.