Congratulations to Niilas who has been awarded the Spellemann for best electronica album of the year in 2020. The album "Also This Will Change" is Niilas' debut album, which was released on his own label in November and since then has garnered tremendously many fantastic reviews.
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Please join us for a presentation by Karen Werner, an artist currently doing a work residence at BEK from her own home. Set up outside of Skottegaten 20, this will be a live radio broadcast and street party!
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In this second part of Vertkøykassen, we will look at several ways you can use face recognition. We will take one step further from the first part, where we learned to set up openFrameworks and the add-onxFaceTracker2 that does face recognition. It is recommended that you attend the first part or have experience with Xcode and programming.
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In 2009, when Lars Ove Toft joined the BEK family as the new general manager, it might have been like arriving on the set of The Addams Family meets Home Alone. At BEK, layers upon layers of electronic art had accumulated in the corridors and storage rooms that had to be excavated and sorted. The first major purchase was a Dymo LetraTag which in the next few years would be a key tool for the milieu. Now, as Lars Ove moves on, he leaves a brand new BEK with newly renovated studios and premises and a grateful staff who are extremely well equipped for whatever may come. As members of Lars Ove’s team, we have been able to develop ourselves as both artists and professionals and have been part of a decade marked by major changes and an incredible amount of exciting art!
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In this Verktøykassen we will look into openFrameworks which is a creative tool consisting of C ++ libraries with open source code such as openGL (Graphic Language) and openCV (Computer Vision). openFrameworks is designed designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.
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Karen Werner is doing a Work Residency at BEK - from home. In her dining room she has set up a SkottegatenFM transmission point from where she is transmitting daily and is helping interested neighbours broadcast from their homes. SkottegatenFM is a three-month micro-FM radio station transmitting at 88.6FM from homes on Skottegaten and surrounding streets in Nordnes. Anyone in listening range can tune in!
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As a result of the unclear infection situation in Bergen and the surrounding area in recent days and the government's new measures in this connection, we have decided to close our studios and project rooms for visits and use until 15 February.
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In the Project Space, Hordaland Kunstsenter presents Visus Tactus Gustus by Eleanor Clare and Dillan Marsh. In this installation of new works the artist duo take inspiration from Munkeliv kloster. The exhibition includes a 6 channel sound installation, for which Clare and Marsh used the studio at BEK to make vocal recordings and got technical and artistic guidance throughout the process.
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Did you miss out on Latent City? Or do you simply want to return and have new a look at what happened? Here we have collected three documentation videos that give you insight into the project and the programme, all made by Paul Johannessen.
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At their Work Residency at BEK, Hedén will develop a soundscape, deepen their knowledge and produce new material as well as mixing a line of finite compositions for the project Inner Beings. In collaboration with singer and composer Agnes Whizdalek, they will explore the use of voice in techno music and record samples that will be processed and integrated in Hedén’s sound world.
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