Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Come join us at BEK for an informal guided tour through our studios and spaces during Kulturnatt, and the installation “Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass” by artists Ingrid Bjørnaali, Fabian Lanzmaier and Maria Simmons.  The three channel sound and video installation focuses on peatlands and their interpretation through various recordings and 3D computing technologies. Using photogrammetry images, field recordings and synthesized…

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As part of the upcoming symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023”, BEK invites artists, scholars and foresters to the workshop “Forests as Environmental Media: Vegetalizing a Smart Forests Atlas” led by researcher, writer, and practitioner Jennifer Gabrys. Environmental digital technologies are now planetary in scope, monitoring oceans and farms, cities and atmospheres. Remote sensing satellites and in-situ sensors,…

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Pavel Sterec, based in Prague, has been working in BEK’s video and sound studios for the past couple of weeks, developing a video-essay for his multimedia project Stakhanovites of Transformation.  Pavel Sterec combines performance, object, installation, photography and other media in a variety of ways. His interest circles around the issues of research, science, museums and archives, social structures and…

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When does sound turn into noise, and noise into pollution? The Bergen-based artist Emily Adomah has been doing a studio residency in the sound studio at BEK the last couple of weeks. Adomah works with the project “pollution”, where she examines the relationship between people and sound pollution. By approaching background sounds in different landscapes, she explores how one consciously…

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We would love to invite you to BEK’s summer party on Friday 18 August at 19:00 to celebrate BEK-community and the last days of summer! We will open the party with grilling on our balcony, and after that invite you to work-in-progress presentations by our current artists-in-residence Pavel Sterec and Emily Adomah. Pavel Sterec, working currently in BEK’s video studio,…

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Queer game jam is a week-long workshop with french artist Chloé Desmoineaux, initiated by aerial in collaboration with BEK. The workshop will be based around the themes of technofeminism and queer video-gaming. The workshop will start by drawing from Chloe’s fanzines and resources from various cyberfeminist networks from Spain, France and Belgium. Afterwards we will be initiating a Game jam…

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We are happy and proud to announce Johanne Øra Danielsen as a new member to the BEK team. From August 2023, Johanne is employed as the new information manager, and will continue to work on making BEK more visible, engaging and accessible. Departing information manager Åsne Hagen has worked in the position since 2021, and is now moving to Oslo…

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The BEK team will be taking time off in July; we’re back in the house on 1 August. We wish you a restful summer. Meanwhile, save the date for the BEK summer party 18 August – we hope to see you there!

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Roy Claire Potter, an artist working between performance and writing, is coming to BEK for a two week residency in July 2023.  Developing a new sound work, commissioned by BEK and focused on CB (citizens band) radio use and culture, Potter will spend time in and around Bergen meeting various local communities and collecting, recording and editing material for the…

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Performance artist Marina Dessau is in a studio residency at BEK, working on the project “Variations of a Separation No.1: Forced Feelback”.  In “Forced Feelback”, Dessau asks: What are the paths of interpersonal connections? What is the stuff that they are made of? What imprint does a physically absent person leave on the inside of another when forcefully separated? What…

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