During the weekend of December 3-4th, BEK invited artists working with video to share and discuss practices. The aim of the seminar and workshop was to broaden the understanding of the video medium’s possibilities today, through a practical and theoretical exploration of technology, process and work.
The sound artist and composer Bethan Kellough is currently artist in residency at USF Verftet. This talk is an informal opportunity to meet with her. She’ll talk about her artistic work, and present excerpts from some of her works. The residency is hosted by USF Verftet and supported in various ways by BEK, Lydgalleriet, Ekko and NOTAM in Oslo.
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The Italian writer and curator Leandro Pisano visits BEK, and will give a presentation on “The Third Soundscape”.
Leandro Pisano is the director of Interferenze New Arts Festival, and his projects and writings focus on new media, sound and technological arts. During the stay in Bergen he will also meet with a number of local sound artists.
Mareike Dobewall and Gisli Gretarsson will do a residency at BEK in mid Octobre. Friday 21st they will share their findings in an artist talk and discuss the future of their project „Voiceland“.
The paper Authoring spatial music with SpatDIF Version 0.4 by Jan C. Schacher, Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Chikashi Miyama will be presented at the 13th Sound and Music Comuting Conference and Summer School in Hamburg.
In addition to attending the conference, Trond Lossius has been invited to lecture at the Summer School, offering perspectives on Current issues in multimedia performance, and a lecture on Ambisonics and SpatDIF.
Marieke Verbiesen will travel to the Hiroshima International Film Festival between 18th and 22nd of August to present her interactive installation M-Machine to the Japanese audience.
Marieke Verbiesen will travel to NIME 2016 – New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2016 to present BEK, projects we have worked with, and her own project Mayhem Machine, in Brisbane, Australia.
CRiSAP Soirées are monthly events for CRiSAP’s members, PhD students and visiting researchers to share and discuss topics of sound art research. This April Ximena Alarcón and Trond Lossius will be leading the evening’s discussing on their current research.
Trond Lossius presents Ambisonic Toolkit for Reaper at BEAST: FEaST 2016. The presentation takes place in the Doom Room Saturday 30 April 11.00.