Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Don’t touch me, you don’t know where I’ve been was a commision by BEK from composer Alwynne Pritchard, premiered in 2008.

The 7th issue of the Sensuous knowledge publication series on artistic research, is dedicated to two texts discussing the work, by the composer herself and Roar Sletteland, former director at BEK.

An installation version of the work will be presented at Solstrand as part of the program for the 2009 Sensuous knowledge conference.

Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is currently Artist-in-Residence at USF Verftet. During her residency, she is developing at BEK a thirty-channel dynamic installation entitled For An Epidemic Resistance, which will be presented at Galleri Pictura / Skånska konstmuseum as their official contribution to the music and art festival Full Pull;Kontra ’09.

Moviestar is an interactive installation where the visitor plays the mainrole. The installation blends live recording from visitors, that will find themselves on a real lifesize filmset amongst cameras, lights and a bluescreen studio.

Touring exhibition for children. BEK develops technical soltions for the touring exhibition for children,“Fiskeboller i Karri”, produced by Hanne Hilt.

The work is based on recordings of the local Suldal dialect and functions as a sonic post card. The semantic meaning becomes subordinate to the sounding qualities of the words and dialect.

The Folkophone – The first song: The organic organ is the OiOi festival instrument. Not everyone can play the Folkophone, but the Folkophone can play on anyone. This year’s theme is the very first sounds we make in life.

Maria Øy Lojo: The Changing Room – In Real Time It Would Last A Thousand Years

BERGEN KUNSTHALL: MA UTSTILLINGEN KHIB 2009

Piksel has been a yearly event since 2003, starting as a workshop for developers of open-source software, with a particular emphasis on software for real-time manipulation of video and sound. Gradually Piksel has grown into a hybrid festival and workshop, meandering the boarders between artistic and technical development.

The first solo exhibition of Øyvind Mellbye demonstrates a true enthusiasm for and critical examination of technology.