Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The Blended Reality Lecture Series invites new media practitioners from around the world to share their work and research in Bergen. The artists that are being featured will not be travelling to Bergen, but will use video conferencing and other online tools — in sometimes unexpected ways — to experiment with  the possibilities of remote lectures and interactivity. The Blended…

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in the period of 26.9 – 2.10, artist Toril Johannessen will be present with photo stations at Entrée and at various departments of Bergen Public Library. Here, she will tell you more about the art project and help you out if you want to contribute.

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In their two week work residency at BEK, Laurie Lax and Lucila Mayol will be working on a teaser of Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn (AF:S) – an Interactive Fiction with sound, based on the remote fjord of Sagfjordbotn in Nordland. The teaser will focus on a portion of material they collected in July, and give a tangible sense of the look…

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Welcome to the opening of You Will Meet a Bird with Strange Feet by Ayatgali Tuleubek. The exhibition will be shown at Aldea Gallery 26th September – 25th October, and is the result of Tuleubeks artist in residence at Aldea and BEK. 

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Verdensteatret’s new performance Trust Me Tomorrow premieres during the Ultima festival in Oslo, and will be shown at Black Box Theatre 17th – 24ht September. The performance explores the experience of blindness, and is described as a free-floating performance work ranging from quiet, elegant introspection to a disturbed and fuzzy mindscape. Much of the performance’s video and audio material has…

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The video The Valley will be shown during this year’s Høstutstillingen 2020 at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. In The Valley, the small village of Dale in Western Norway is used as a prism to look at global changes related to production and economy. The video was created by Åse Løvgren and Stine Gonsholt, and was partially produced at BEK during…

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The Blended Reality Lecture Series invites new media practitioners from around the world to share their work and research in Bergen. The artists that are being featured will not be travelling to Bergen, but will use video conferencing and other online tools — in sometimes unexpected ways — to experiment with  the possibilities of remote lectures and interactivity. The Blended…

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Working from the fast-paced and action-packed shoot-’em-up video game franchise “Time Crisis “, this project explores the crisis of the changing perception of time in the age of acceleration, and action/inaction as a response. Taking the form of an expanded reading and writing workshop at BEK, this second stage of “Time Crisis Conference” will deconstruct what constitutes the acts of…

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Craig Wells currently works at BEK with no less than seven collaborative projects, ranging from live modular synthesis, to improvisation, sound design and composition. Many of the projects can be experienced by audiences in Bergen during the autumn, and in December Wells will give a presentation of his practice at BEK.

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We are very happy to have Ayatgali Tuleubek in our studios these weeks, who have been invited to Bergen in a collaboration between Aldea, Hordaland Art Centre and BEK. Earlier this summer, he was one of the tutors at Hordaland Art Centre’s Summer Academy, and at the end of September, the work currently being developed at BEK will be shown in Aldea’s…

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