Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK invites artists interested in sound explorations to a 3-day workshop with artist and scholar Yara Mekawei in Bergen. Looking into the philosophy of listening, experimenting with different techniques for field recording, and learning to capture the essence of various locations through sound, we will try to draw a sonic map of the city.   Dates: 24–26 October 2023, 10:00–15:00 each…

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What do we learn about the world, while we are learning to live with AI? For the 2023 edition of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, BEK employs the notions of hallucinating, computing and collapsing as entry points for the inquiry.   With contributions from: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, N. Katherine Hayles, Jennifer Gabrys, Haig Aivazian, Jenna Sutela, Damien…

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How does digital decay occur and can we challenge digital colonialism and ensure restitution of an object’s data?  Architects and designers are able to control digital objects. It’s possible to utilize tools to duplicate, spin and place digital objects into any desired environment. The digital object or matter is then saved on a hard drive left paused in time. The…

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Welcome to Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts during B-open! Al Skua and Marcel del Castillo – current artists at studio residency at BEK – will open the doors to their working spaces and share excerpts from ongoing projects. In addition, you can listen to our new quadrophonic sound system in the project room, where BEK’s producer in art and technology Morten…

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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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