Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Working with his invented instruments, Paris-based electroacoustic composer and performer Benjamin Thigpen will be in a studio residency at BEK from 10–22 Jan 2022.  Objects such as knives, baking dishes, paper clips, and saws often figure in Thigpen´s instruments, which are built around piezo contact microphones, inductors used as magnetic field microphones, small exciters for mechanical feedback, larger coils for…

We´re happy to welcome Dianne Murphy, who will be staying with us in a traineeship until the middle of March. She wants to experience how an organisation working with art and technology is organised and run, as well as share her own skills and knowledge. Murphy graduated in 2020 with an honours BA in Fine Art from Dún Laoghaire Institute…

Our studios and spaces are open for short term project residencies at BEK. If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics you are welcome to apply for a residency in our studios for a period of 2-4 weeks. Application deadline: 15 January 2022. The residencies are open to professional artists and we prioritise projects…

This week, HC Gilje is in our video studio working on a project for The North Norwegian Art Centre. Gilje has been involved with the coastal fishing community in Vardø and 3D scanned their fishing equipment and sheds. He is now making a 3D work based on the material. The work will be presented in Vardø in 2022. Stills: HC Gilje. …

The symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change brought together artists and scholars from several continents to examine what an artwork can be and what an artwork can do in a world that cannot and should not return to ‘normal’ post-pandemic. We are happy to share some glimpses of the events 19–20 November. Pictured: Tenthaus – Lucia Pietroiusti – Maria Rusinovskaya of…

The Only Lasting Truth is Change is an extended symposium investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. Collecting all the symposium threads and projects on 19–20 November, BEK invites you to an intensive two-day programme of discussions and performances, radio broadcasts and screenings, recipes and diagrams. With contributions by Anna L. Tsing, Lucia Pietroiusti, Stephanie Dinkins, Mark Fell…