Siri Austeen and Espen Sommer Eide have in their practices in different ways related to sound recording or “field recording” – a term that may mistakenly give the impression that the sound must be retrieved in exotic and dangerous places. BEK has invited them to a conversation where they present different projects they have participated in and discuss examples of…
Come and listen to what Brita UT has been working on during her work residency in BEK’s sound studio! Light refreshments.
BEK is participating at this year’s B-open with the presentation of various projects in the field of art and technology. B-open is an art festival with the main focus on open artist studios, with several other activities associated with the festival, open to anyone with free access. Bergen Center for Electronic Arts is an interdisciplinary resource and competence center for…
Friday November 24th, the artist Sidsel Christensen will visit BEK and hold an artist presentation titled Usynlige stemmer og korporlige maskiner (Invisible voices and corporal machines). Lunch will be served at 14.00, and Sidsel will start her presentation after. Welcome! Om presentasjonen skriver Sidsel: “Gjennom det kunstneriske virket bruker jeg videoinstallasjoner og live performance som undersøkelsesramme. Jeg er opptatt av…
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.
The artist Raquel Meyers will do a presentation at BEK Monday 8th of May at 19.00 We will serve food from 18.00. Welcome! Raquel is in Bergen on the occasion of the workshop Digital Embroidery 6-7th of May, which is a collaboration between BEK and Bergen Public Library. We are delighted that Raquel will share her artistic practice with us!
This week Maria Øy Lojo has been working in BEK’s project space with her project A Temporary Meeting. She has processed recorded material from the metro in Berlin, amongst others, into what is going to be a site specific and interactive video installation. We are delighted that Maria will present her work in progress here at BEK. Her work can…
The VR-film Utopia was first shown in the woods at Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Campus Bergen, fall 2016. Utopia is a 360-degree virtual reality interpretation of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, on the occasion of the 500-year anniversary of the book (1516-2016). At BEK Margrethe Kolstad Brekke (initiator/visual artist) and Hilde Annine Hasselberg (director/singer) will talk about the film and the working…
In and Out of Space: Critical Approaches to Spatiality in Sound and Image is a two day doctoral training workshop at the University of Aberdeen, and features keynotes, workshops and performances by Professor Paul Koonce (University of Florida), Trond Lossius (BEK) and Johannes Deutsch.
During the first three months of this year Dutch sound artist Tijs Ham has been collaborating with Bergen visual artist Birk Nygaard during a residency at USF Verftet supported by BEK. On the 26th of March, this collaboration will be premiered at Landmark alongside a performance by Zeno van den Broek presenting his new audiovisual piece Shift Symm. In the same weekend Jan Willem Hagenbeek from Ginkosynthese will host a workshop in Bergen Public Library.