Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Marije Baalman is currently writing a book on mapping: how can gestures through the use of sensors and controllers, computational processing be translated to output media, such as sound, light and video. Her motivation comes from her own artistic work, where the topic of mapping has played a core part since 2001, when she started building her first digital musical instrument,…

“A Musical Love Letter” is a combined music and video work where a letter is being created; both musically performed by oboe, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, and as a video where the letter slowly emerges as a picture. The music closely follows the gestures of the fountain pen as it moves on the paper. At BEK, Rebecka Ahvenniemi will pre-film video,…

During his Work Residency at BEK Mathias Loose will investigate MIDI-libraries in collaboration with Craig Wells (sound-artist), Lorie Ballage (sculpture and singer) and Samuel Brzeski (visual artist and poet). Throughout the week they will investigate and create sample-libraries. Collectively they will find and make examples, converse and trying out plug-ins, and go into foley/field recording mode to collect and extract…

In her new project for Volt, which will take the form as a performance and an exhibition, Nora Joung uses legal documents from 1982 as a starting point to examine a court ruling which determined that it’s not illegal for politicians to break promises made to their voters. At BEK Joung will record and mix voiceover for a video work,…

Welcome to this presentation of video work and research leading up to the production of the installation “Mapping Smart Futures (MSF)” by KairUs at BEK Thursday 28th from 18.00

Erin Sexton will be in residence at BEK September 2nd – 15th with her project Contingency Planning in collaboration with dance artist Yohei Hamada. Formatted as a 2-day workshop September 10th and 12th and exhibition/happening event September 13th, this is an open-structure exploration of sci-fi strategies, collective movement, and metaphysical sculpture.

Working with artist Signe Lidén, Peter Meanwell will be in BEK’s sound studio making final recordings and experiment with mixing possibilities for an audio piece about her work to be presented at LIAF – Lofoten International Art Festival 2019. The audio work will be presented in the gallery space, as a podcast and will form part of a public presentation…

On a nationwide cinema tour with the Norwegian silent movie classic “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (1926), Ugress, Krakow, 9 grader nord, Nasra Ali Omar and Annlaug Børsheim aim to redefine romantic nationalism: What does being “Norwegian” mean in 2020? This will be a grand new musical work, performed by a superband from Western Norway, commissioned by Cinemateket USF, that premieres at BIFF and Vill Vill Vest in…

By invitation from Bergen Domkor and BEK, the young Bergen-based artist Andrea Urstad Toft has made two new video works that will be projected directly on the brick walls of Bergen domkirke during the choir’s Bergen International Festival concert on May 29th. After a 3-week work residency in BEK’s video studio, the process manifests in sensitive pictures and animations that…

The artist duo Gitte Sætre and Frans Jacobi is working in our video studio these weeks. Towards 2021 they will have several work residencies at BEK to develop and realise Are You Ready? – a hybrid tv series. During their residencies they will do pre-production, production and post production.