Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

For the exhibition Numinous Beginnings at Lydgalleriet, Anne Cecilie Lie has made a new version of the geolocative site-sensitive sound-walk Entangled Formations initially created for the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The new sound-walk, placed at Nordnes in Bergen, focuses on bird species that could call both places home. At a time when travel is difficult, Entangled Formation – Bergen Edition, offers…

Download the BITWaves2 app for free: AppleAndroid BITWaves allows you to record sound and play audio by moving your fingers across the screen. With the new version, you can also play polyphonic sound by using several fingers at once. Moving your fingers across the screen, you can make the sounds become lower and slower. What does the clinking of a…

Submit a portrait of yourself here www.gruppebilde.bek.no, and become part of a group image with Bergen’s residents! Using technology that interprets photographs and creates new images, artist Toril Johannessen will create a comprehensive group image based on submitted portrait photos. The final image will become two large tapestries for Bergen City Hall where people and their elected representatives meet. Everyone who lives in Bergen is hereby invited to participate.

We are happy to launch the BEK Archive – a completely new section on bek.no that gives you the opportunity to dive into projects from BEK’s 20 years in the field of art and technology.

During the work residency at BEK, Kim Hankyul will develop a new body of work for the upcoming solo show at Gyldenpris Kunsthall later in the spring 2021. In the project, analogue sound plates will be scrutinized as physical bodies with literary scenery, each of which has a potential of storing a narrative in the format of physical projection and…

A new year – and everyday life is still different for all of us as a result of the measures to prevent further spread of the coronavirus. In light of new guidelines and recommendations from the government on 3 January, we will have to close our studios and project rooms for visits and use, as well as the lending and…