Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The last part of the celebration of Håkonshallens 750th anniversary starts Friday the 2nd of December. Video art on the old brick facade of Håkonshallen, presented by BEK.

A zero document is the term for a document in the public sector that has been filed in a separate folder for zero documents. Such documents have for various reasons been exempted access, and documents have often not been preserved.

The exhibition Nonlocality, which is actually two exhibitions, revolves around how time and place are variables that change according to technological and scientific developments. Conflicting ways of understanding the world and duality are underlying themes, and the two shows are twin exhibitions running parallel to each other. Technical solutions for one of the works, Mean Time, have been developed by freelancers in collaboration with BEK.

Eva Ljosvoll shows her new video work En Odyssé at the joint exhibition Naturescape at Nordnorsk kunstnersenter, Svolvær. Naturescape is a study of nature’s potential as an opinion carrier in the Arts, and opens Saturday 29th October at 13:00. En Odyssé has been edited at BEKs video studio. The exhibition has previously been shown at Gallery Boa in Oslo and Lørenskog kunstforening.

With the audio-visual triptych MindBox Christian Graupner, Roberto Zappalà, Norbert Schnell & Nils Peters have created an interactive installation and an electro-acoustic music instrument.

The audience operates the levers and buttons of a modified one-armed-bandit and thereby remixes the pre-recorded music/video of a beatboxer that is displayed on three large screens and by speakers above the machine.

From September 9th at 21.45 the Bergen Center for Electronic Arts / BEK, will presents the video work ‘Carousel’ by Bjørg Taranger at the facade of Håkonshallen facing the city. As the daylight fades, the work will emerge on Håkonshallen distinctive stone facade.

In conjunction with PNCA’s Boundary Crossings, the July interdisciplinary institute on animated arts, the Feldman Gallery & Project Space presents the exhibition Intermation.
For this exhibition Marieke Verbiesen & Håvard Pedersen will show the interactive installation “Plan 10” coproduced by BEK.

The Håkon’s Hall is a remarkable building with a long history. The site-specific sound installation “Lines converging at a distance” by Trond Lossius is a commission for the 750 year anniversary in 2011.

The ambient spatial soundscape invites the audience to experience the hall at a slower pace, and possibly sit down and contemplate the qualities of the combined space and sound.

Witte de With presents two events in May: The opening of the group exhibition The End of Money and the first two lectures in the series To Tell The Truth. Norwegian artist Torill Johannessen participates with her newest work, developed with the contribution from BEK associates.

Boom…stroke…aaaaeeeehhhh…swing…crash…push…beeep! We struggle to put sonic interactions into words – and that is why an exhibition with real examples of sonic interaction design is the best way to experience this new field of research. It allows you to get your hands – and ears – on interactive works that showcase how sound can facilitate interaction in product design, mobile media, communicating scientific data, interactive art, and more.