Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Last year’s Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We used the seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology in 2018 as our point of departure, and invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a real Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result was released in a video screening, open for the public at BEK on Saturday June 15th…

Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Thursday November 7th Helene Rickhard (NO) and Gareth Morris (UK) will present the results of their…

Reality-based Audio Workshop will work experimentally with documentary audio recordings in Struer 23.08 – 07.09.2019 to create a new sound piece to be presented during Struer Tracks 2019. The group will address issues around ‘land use’ to highlight changes in the landscape that is happening because of our ever-increasing reliance on digital, global communications.

What would you take with you in a “survival kit” for the age of technology? How can we imagine and act for the future? How can we act in everyday life, here and now? After a week’s LAB at BEK in June 2019, we are proud to give you our two suggestions for a survival kit: A video book co-created…

During the week of June 10 – 16th, it is time for another Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We will use last year’s seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology as our point of departure, and have invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result will be released in a…

Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Wednesday April 24th Adam Parkinson and Tine Surel Lange presented the results of their collaboration during…

Borealis World Premiere! Sit back and get comfortable for an audio cinema experience, as BEK’s Reality-based Audio Workshop take you sonically in to Norway’s “Moon Landing”!

  Touch Me Festival 2017 – The Invisible Around Us From 6th-19th October, our Future DiverCities partner, KONTEJNER, will arrange the annual Touch Me festival in Zagreb (Croatia), which focuses on innovative interventions within science, technology and art. The fifth edition is titled The Invisible Around Us, where dark matter is used as a metaphor for our limitations when it…

On Friday 26th May 3pm, all are welcome to our open day, where we will present the results of a week’s experimentation with drone technology, including a discussion on art and technology. There will be light refreshments.  

FROM MACRO TO MICRO AND BACK the physics and metaphysics of_______distance from BEK.no on Vimeo. On the 22nd – 28th of May BEK organized the LAB FROM MACRO TO MICRO AND BACK, the physics and metaphysics of_________________distance. LAB is a practice-oriented concept for researching artistic ideas and raw materials in collaboration. The project was made possible through the four-year EU-funded…