Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, BEK invites creative practitioners to the workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Led by multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell, with philosopher Robin Mackay, this workshop series aims to critically examine beliefs about creative practice — for example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well…

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BEK launches a new durational symposium, “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, unfolding in Bergen, Norway across Autumn 2021, and investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. With contributions from:Anna L. Tsing, Mark Fell & Robin Mackay, Jackie Karuti, Signe Lidén, Geir Tore Holm, Hanan Benammar, Sara Eliassen, Lars Holdhus, Tenthaus, Rian Treanor and others. This long form…

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This week, eight participants are assembled on BEKs premises for part one of the workshop “Landscape as Material Witness”. In the inaugural part of the workshop, Fredrik Salhus gave an introduction to photogrammetry as a tool for artists. The participants have been presented with ways to use photogrammetry when mapping and investigating objects or smaller defined areas. As a technique,…

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Come join us at BEK for an informal guided tour through our studios and spaces, and an installation presenting a work-in-progress by our artists in studio residency Jennifer D’Amore and Enara Barnés Larrukert. During a two-week residency in BEK sound studio, Jennifer and Enara will be developing the project Tree-Dimensions, excerpts of which will be presented under the Kulturnatt. Tree-Dimensions…

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We bid a fond and teary-eyed farewell to Vilde Salhus Røed as she leaves BEK to allow more time for her own artistic practice. Vilde has been with us since 2016 as information manager. With her great capacity for work, sharp wits and broad field of inquiry, she has been central to most of what has been developed at BEK…

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We are happy and excited to welcome two new members into the BEK team! From August 2021, BEK has hired Åsne Hagen as information manager and Kaeto Sweeney as production assistant in art and technology. Åsne Hagen is the new information manager. Before joining BEK, she held the position of market coordinator at Tekstallmenningen and, prior to that, managing director of…

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STUDIO, part of Public Art Norway’s project for the new KMD building in Møllendalsveien 61, was launched today at KMD. STUDIO will unfold as a series of collaborative projects between the departments at KMD, Bergen and the world and will explore work processes and studio practice in the arts, music and design and how these can be linked to art…

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In this workshop, artist Roar Sletteland and acoustic engineer Paal Rasmussen will demonstrate the possibilities for using loudspeakers in works of art, and how to make your own custom-built speaker. -Dates: 27 and 30 September from 12–17-Location: BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, C. Sundts gate 55-Fee: NOK 500,--Sign-up to bek@bek.no by 13 September. Limited number of spots – first come, first served! Aesthetics,…

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We have two available spots in a two-part workshop with Fredrik Salhus (photogrammetry) and Susan Schuppli (Material Witness). In the workshop, we will look at how visual traces in a landscape can be read, and how these traces can function as witnesses of ongoing processes like destruction of nature, climate changes, or political and economic transformations. Part 1: Photogrammetry with Fredrik…

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The VUMA collective has developed a new iteration of the geo-triggered audio app VUMA Soner, which will be presented as part of the exhibition The Ocean at Bergen Kunsthall opening on 28 August 2021. In the form of a guided tour, a racialised Bergenser tells local histories, using the moving in and out of Bergen via the sea as a departure point…

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