Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Performance20 NOVEMBER 22:00Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at https://bek.ticketco.eventsTickets at the door: 100,- Jenny Berger Myhre presents a live performance and a listening session with sounds from her collection: field recordings, computer-generated sequences and cassette tapes as well as her modular synthesizer. As a performer, Berger Myhre strives to make a space for shared listening, removing the expectations…

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Performance20 NOVEMBER 23:00Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at https://bek.ticketco.events/Tickets at the door: 100 NOK Rian Treanor leads a new group performance with materials collaboratively developed during a workshop, exploring new forms of sound synthesis, algorithmic pattern making and collaborative live performance. For the symposium, Rian Treanor convened a new workshop developed for and with people with different levels…

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Hybrid DJ set20 NOVEMBER 24:00Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at ticketco.eventsTickets at the door: 100,- Inish Sofia Hedén Næss, known mononymously as Inish, is an artist and record label spirit at Spirals based in Bergen.  For The Only Lasting Truth is Change, Inish will play techno, trance, intimate field recordings and text readings by protectors of LGBTQIA+ people.…

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The new date for the Awne workshop session, that was cancelled 27 October, is 7 November 16:00-19:00 CET.  For practical reasons we decided to hold it online, and all who are interested can join it on Zoom. Send an email to bek@bek.no to sign up and get the Zoom link. Awne is an approach to art-making where natural farming, agroforestry, Buddhism, cosmo-centric…

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As an extension of the project Inter-symmetric Works, exploring new forms of remote participation and networked interaction between audiences and collaborators, Rian Treanor convenes a workshop on sound synthesis and algorithmic pattern making for the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change. The workshop is developed for and with people with different levels of learning difficulties, as well as a…

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Do you remember when you last heard a new musical genre for the first time, or a completely new auditory universe, or a surprising combination of sounds you did not expect to fit together? With BEK Studio Sessions, we aim to cultivate this moment. For this version, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik and Elina Waage Mikalsen will be working together in BEK´s…

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On Saturday 25 September from 12 to 17, join us at BEK to experience fragments of a work in progress: “Empty is also Full” by Audrey Hurd, our artist in studio residency. The event is part of B-open 2021. “I’m curious about vases, these little void holders. They are all surface, but also all space. And each space vibrates with…

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As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, Signe Lidén has developed Circumference, an audio recording instrument created to be shared between artists. In October and November, the instrument will be included in BEK’s library of technical equipment, available for use by artists. Get in touch at bek@bek.no if you want to use the recording instrument in…

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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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