BEK offers a one-week introductory workshop to the software Max. Max is an intuitive graphical environment for real-time processing of all kinds of media (sound, video, MIDI, light, sensors and robotics), and can be used for music, sound art, video, installations, works for stage and in interaction design. Instructor is Trond Lossius.

Textile researcher Berit Greinke and composer for electroacoustic music Alessandro Altavilla will give a collaborative 3-day workshop based on the project CHROME that investigates visual and audio pattern creation through colour chromatography.

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From Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th of December, BEK hosts a workshop in OpenFrameworks; a programming language develloped and applied in interactive artworks. OpenFrameworks is a powerful open source tool designed to simplify building creative applications, it has rapidly become one of the tools of choice for a new era of creative designers.

With the audio-visual triptych MindBox Christian Graupner, Roberto Zappalà, Norbert Schnell & Nils Peters have created an interactive installation and an electro-acoustic music instrument.

The audience operates the levers and buttons of a modified one-armed-bandit and thereby remixes the pre-recorded music/video of a beatboxer that is displayed on three large screens and by speakers above the machine.

Exhibition opening and the launch of the magazine FØLGENE. Nine artists, nine artworks and a nine paragraph text constructing a chain of art.

BEK has contributed with access to editing facilities, expertise and technical equipment.

The exhibition opens on Friday 20. January, and is open for two more days.

The last part of the celebration of Håkonshallens 750th anniversary starts Friday the 2nd of December. Video art on the old brick facade of Håkonshallen, presented by BEK.

Alogs new album “Unemployed” is now out in all formats. 4xLP, CD, iTunes. Alog Unemployed is supported by and recorded at BEK.