Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK is looking for a creative and competent producer in art and technology for a 60 % position. The producer will cooperate closely with BEK’s director and other team members to further develop BEK as one of Norway’s leading arenas for artistic practices and ideas at the intersection of technology and society. Areas of work include development and production of…

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BEK invites participants to a new online workshop on the topic of machine learning for sound makers, as part of our collaboration series with Notam: “Workshops for Advanced Users”. Workshop dates: 20–24 June Registration deadline: 31 May  This workshop will focus on the recently developed software / machine learning model RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder), and is led by the…

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Multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell is back in Bergen. During his May residency he has participated in The Pirate Academy and leads the continuation of his workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Fell’s residency is organised in cooperation between BEK and KORO’s project STUDIO at KMD, exploring studio practices and work processes in fine art, music and design. The first part of Fell’s…

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Prøverommet and BEK present MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat) by Lana May Fleming, live streamed by Bertha Chan and Ingrid Ormevik. Monday 25 April19:00 – 19:30The Vimeo live stream has now ended. MILF (Mother I’d Like To Eat) is a performative cooking show by the artist Lana May Fleming, which draws a comparison between the construction of food imagery and the…

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Nasjonalmuseet and BEK invite artists to a workshop introducing the Video Art Archive – a reference archive and a portal for artists, curators, art historians and researchers. The archive offers artists the opportunity to store metadata and files in a secure way for the future, and the workshop will give an introduction to uploading and registering of your own video…

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Nora Adwan’s video installation Sang i et fremmed land will be exhibited at Astrup Fearnley Museet 23 April – 7 August 2022. Adwan has been in a studio residency at BEK to develop material for the installation.  During her BEK residency, Adwan explored custom-made speakers, composition and editing of sound and video material, as well as combining recorded voice and…

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This 2-day course teaches you how to fly a drone, issues of security and regulations, and what is needed of registering etc before you can fly a drone on your own. April 20–21, 202210:00–15:00 BEK has a drone (DJI phantom 4 pro v2) that you will be able to master at the end of the course. Drone photography and filming…

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Thanks for dropping by BEK during Resonating Nordnes on Sunday 20 March! We counted more than 100 visitors throughout the day, enjoying a Radio Multe 93.8FM broadcast about Nordnes history from our listening station or taking part in a family workshop on sound making. The events at BEK were a part of Resonating Nordnes and Borealis 2022. More on the Radio…

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Drop by BEK at Nordnes to grab a coffee and listen to Radio Multe, Bergen’s newest community and experimental radio station! Sunday 20 March10:00–13:00BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor + 93.8 FM + radiomulte.live Radio Multe 93.8FM are broadcasting live on FM radio with the programme Byen vår/Our City: Nordnes featuring Karen Werner, Evy M. Sørensen, Anna Watson and…

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Join us for a workshop with artist Oda Bremnes to learn how different exciting sounds can be produced and played with. With intricate machines and objects, with electricity and mechanical movement, we invite you to listen to the gripping sound universe of Oda, and to experiment with ways of creating sounds. Sunday 20 March13:00–16:00BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor…

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