Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Anders Rubing’s presentation will reflect on the video programme within the Latent City exhibition, taking a cue from his ongoing research at the Center for Women and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen. Rubing’s research aims to unpack how visions of different urban futures are produced by urban security and resilience discourses, with a focus on dimensions relating…

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Jiska Huizing will end off the opening night of Latent City with a DJ set on 12 November. Jiska Huizing‘s DJ sets combine tracks from a broad spectrum of genres, but obscure club music, influences of world music and polyrhythms are always important. She likes to make surprising connections in her sets, having no problem with combining sounds of nature…

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Welcome to the opening of Latent City 12 November from 19.00 - live streamed directly to you from Bergen Kjøtt! The opening night presents the launch of the VUMA Soner app, performances by Kaeto Sweeney and Gitte Sætre & Frans Jacobi, video screening of Tivon Rice, and a DJ set from Jiska Huizing. Please note that the opening will be streamed only, due to current covid-19 restriction in Bergen.

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This presentation was live streamed Saturday 14 November from Bergen Kjøtt. The recording will be available here up until and including 29 November.

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Latent City presents artistic productions dealing with the city’s hidden stories. Seen through the lens of artistic observation, latent infrastructures and questions of digital presence and of power and democracy in our cities, meet in an exhibition that takes place over three weeks. The Latent City is the city that awaits, the one that is about to unfold, our common…

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Hertzian Field #2Stelios ManousakisPerformance: introduction and recording Today, the Earth’s atmosphere has an electromagnetic double: the infosphere. We live engulfed in radio fields, moving through invisible strata as real as the air we breathe. Beyond carrying our data, telecommunications have a side effect: they sense our presence as our bodies absorb, reflect and refract their emissions. Unbeknownst to us, our…

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Virtual Ritual (2019) by Jan MocekRecording of performance, 70 min. Virtual Ritual takes its spectators on a journey through the cities created in online video games, that form a kind of parallel universe to daily reality. These virtual spaces offer its users endless possibilities to enjoy themselves without the constraints of harsh reality. But every game has its rules. In…

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Are You Ready?Frans Jacobi and Gitte SætrePerformance, video, online TV-series I am a dead tree from the Norwegian woods on a journey into the world of humans. My name is “The Living Unliving Surveillance Poet”, and every full moon I report back to nature through a very special tele channel on the world wide web, due to all species’ needing…

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FirebirdAnders Hannevold, Juan Qin, Teresa Prati and Parsa Shomali Audio visual performance Firebird is a multimedia project that includes live performance and audio/visual arts. This project is generated by the usage of paper. The first layer of the performance deals with the different qualities, possibilities, and boundaries of this material. Further layers reveal subtopics in the work such as destruction…

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Edgelands (2019)Trond LossiusElectroacoustic composition (3rd order Ambisonic) for multichannel loudspeaker array Trond Lossius · Edgelands (binaural headphone version) Edgelands starts from a series of field recordings from the suburbs and fringes of the city. These zones are critical as urban infrastructures, residential areas and for transport and industry. Still, they come across as bland, banal, and anonymous, haphazardly developed and…

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