Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics, you are welcome to apply for a studio residency at BEK lasting for 2–6 weeks. Deadline 5 January.

Together with Bergen-based artists, BEK is organising a day of concerts on 14 December, in support of the work that is being done by Beirut Synth Center and Tunefork Studios for displaced people in Lebanon. 

Four talks that were streamed during BEK’s symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023 are available here to watch and rewatch. The symposium took place in Bergen on 16-19 November 2023 and examined how different perceptions of reality arise and collide in our steadily more automated world.

In collaboration with Bergen Filmklubb, we invite you to two experimental films that explore bodily autonomy and young people’s movement across different borders, COME HERE by Anocha Suwichakornpong and THE HUMAN SURGE 3 by Eduardo Williams. Eduardo Williams presented a new commission work at BEK’s symposium in 2022, and now we have the pleasure of inviting him back for a talk during this double screening.

BEK presents an one-day workshop for artists and filmmakers, led by the acclaimed film director Eduardo Williams. The workshop delves into the world of 360 videography, and the creative use of cameras in different contexts.

Borealis presents the Norwegian premiere of a new work by multifaceted Palestinian artist Dakn داكنْ. The piece was commissioned by BEK in collaboration with Another Sky Festival, and premiered at Cafe Oto in London in the autumn of 2024. Taking place in the opposite of an “imagined present”, when much of the world has fallen victim to the wicked, Heart Gate is…