We have upgraded our video studio! With a new Mac Studio, two 5K Apple Studio displays, and a Sony A1 camera, we look forward to facilitating artists working with 8K projects. Professional artists working with moving image are welcome to apply for a residency in our new 8K studio in the period 3 October–1 November 2022. Application deadline: 4 september…
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BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts – is looking for a producer in art and technology for a 60% position. We are looking for a knowledgeable and ambitious colleague with a broad technical expertise in sound art and visual art. If you have rich and varied experience in developing and implementing complex, demanding projects within the field of art…
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We look back in gratitude at everything that Espen Sommer Eide and Marieke Verbiesen have contributed to BEK throughout the last two decades. Espen and Marieke recently left their positions as advisers in art and technology to work on their own projects. It will be quite a challenge to make up for their absence at BEK! From his years at…
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Please join us for BEK’s summer party on Friday 12 August at 19:00 for a night celebrating BEK-community and the last days of summer! We will open the party with a workshop by Sveinung Rudjord Unneland, Borghild Rudjord Unneland and Charlotte Besuijen, inviting you to decorate our blank walls with neon tape and glitter. The tape project “Continuous re-mark” is open…
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BEK invites participants to a new online workshop on the topic of machine learning for sound makers, as part of our collaboration series with Notam: “Workshops for Advanced Users”. Workshop dates: 20–24 June Registration deadline: 31 May This workshop will focus on the recently developed software / machine learning model RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder), and is led by the…
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During their studio residency at BEK in May, Trude Bekk and Tom Teulon have further developed their ongoing project Sublime Synaesthesia. As part of their residency, they’ve collected and worked with material from the landscape in and around Bergen, in the form of field recordings as well as physical objects such as stones and branches. The project Sublime Synaesthesia explores…
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Multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell is back in Bergen. During his May residency he has participated in The Pirate Academy and leads the continuation of his workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Fell’s residency is organised in cooperation between BEK and KORO’s project STUDIO at KMD, exploring studio practices and work processes in fine art, music and design. The first part of Fell’s…
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Prøverommet and BEK present MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat) by Lana May Fleming, live streamed by Bertha Chan and Ingrid Ormevik. Monday 25 April19:00 – 19:30The Vimeo live stream has now ended. MILF (Mother I’d Like To Eat) is a performative cooking show by the artist Lana May Fleming, which draws a comparison between the construction of food imagery and the…
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Nasjonalmuseet and BEK invite artists to a workshop introducing the Video Art Archive – a reference archive and a portal for artists, curators, art historians and researchers. The archive offers artists the opportunity to store metadata and files in a secure way for the future, and the workshop will give an introduction to uploading and registering of your own video…
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Nora Adwan’s video installation Sang i et fremmed land will be exhibited at Astrup Fearnley Museet 23 April – 7 August 2022. Adwan has been in a studio residency at BEK to develop material for the installation. During her BEK residency, Adwan explored custom-made speakers, composition and editing of sound and video material, as well as combining recorded voice and…
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