Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Submit a portrait of yourself 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…

The video The Valley will be shown during this year’s Høstutstillingen 2020 at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. In The Valley, the small village of Dale in Western Norway is used as a prism to look at global changes related to production and economy. The video was created by Åse Løvgren and Stine Gonsholt, and was partially produced at BEK during…

Working from the fast-paced and action-packed shoot-’em-up video game franchise “Time Crisis “, this project explores the crisis of the changing perception of time in the age of acceleration, and action/inaction as a response. Taking the form of an expanded reading and writing workshop at BEK, this second stage of “Time Crisis Conference” will deconstruct what constitutes the acts of…

In their two week work residency at BEK, Laurie Lax and Lucila Mayol will be working on a teaser of Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn (AF:S) – an Interactive Fiction with sound, based on the remote fjord of Sagfjordbotn in Nordland. The teaser will focus on a portion of material they collected in July, and give a tangible sense of the look…

The Blended Reality Lecture Series invites new media practitioners from around the world to share their work and research in Bergen. The artists that are being featured will not be travelling to Bergen, but will use video conferencing and other online tools — in sometimes unexpected ways — to experiment with  the possibilities of remote lectures and interactivity. The Blended…

Welcome to the opening of You Will Meet a Bird with Strange Feet by Ayatgali Tuleubek. The exhibition will be shown at Aldea Gallery 26th September – 25th October, and is the result of Tuleubeks artist in residence at Aldea and BEK.