A Norwegian artist group, InEpic, are invited to KOCHI – MUZIRIS Biennial in India, to participate in the current conversation about women’s rights. Here, different topics of feminism are treated with different artistic expressions, with exhibitions and seminars. One of the artists who are participating is Gitte Sætre. BEK has assisted her in the preparation of video material for the biennial.
SOLUND LIGHT ART FESTIVAL 2014 focuses on light as a medium for art and experiences. The goal of the project is to create a local, national and international commitment for light and visual expression. Solund municipality is located where the Sognefjord meets the North sea, and much of the activities will take place in and around Hardbakke center, in the November darkness.
As part of the realization of the project Critical Band, Lemur and Bjørnar Habbestad were conducting acoustic tests and a workshop with musicians from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The work led up to the concert at the festival Tectonics in April.
The Sonic Game Space project by BEK exists from an Exhibition, Workshops, Presentations and Liveperformances, and shows works by a group of artists that are connected trough their work in early game console art. This upcoming Thursday the Sonic Game Space exhibition will open at Lydgalleriet, in Østre Hus for Lydkunst from kl. 19:00
On sunday the 5th of October, artist & engineer Jacob Sikker Remin will give a workshop in building your very own synth; the CFO: Cheap, Fat & Open.
On Saturday the 4th October, visual Artist Raquel Meyers will show various techniques for using the Commodore 64 for animation and live performance, by using a unique set of tools.
Søren Andreasen will hold an Arduino workshop at BEK. The workshop fee is 500,- NOK, for this you get an Arduino Uno Kit to work on. New dates for the workshop is 24. NOV – 28. NOV. Beginners from Monday 24. and more experienced from Wednesday 26.
– How to make the world a better place and not to be caught. App creation workshop with Petr Svarovsky, artist and indie game developer. No prior knowledge is needed. Completely unexperienced people can make their own App running on their phone within 3 hours! IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE attending the whole week-let us know, part time participation is also possible!
Jamoma developers from France, US, England and Norway team up for a workshop at BEK in March. The workshop will focus on finalising specifications and implementation of model-view-controller separation for the upcoming 0.6 release, and speculate on future directions for development.
BEKs first workshop this semester is in collaboration with Lydgalleriet. Nic Collins, known as the writer of “Handmade Electronic Music – the Art of Hardware Hacking” will hold a 3-days workshop in connection with the building of the Alvin Lucier exhibition. If you want to participate, please sign up by sending a mail to tolga at lydgalleriet.no