Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

British artist and film maker Terry Flaxton is our guest for the first artist talk this autumn. Terry Flaxton is a senior research fellow in HD Video Production at the University of Bristol, U.K. Terry Flaxton has been involved in the UK video art and indepent film milieu since the late seveties and has worked with a broad range of productions including documentaries, video installations and television productions, including one of the first tv-series on video art in the UK, made in 1985.

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AudioSpace is a yearly seminar at KHiB about the relationships between sound, music and art. This year it will focus on the question of the instrument. Guests are artists who address this issue in different ways, from domestication of casette players to installations that perform, to text scores. Lecturers include Trond Lossius, Atle Selnes Nilsen, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, John Lely and Icaro Zorbar.

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BEK is among the contributors to the publication Localised, published by Ctrl+Z Publishers on the occasion of the Bergen Biennial Conference in September 2009.

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Jamoma is an open-source project to facilitates art-based research and performance practice within Cycling’74’s Max5. Jamoma is an open-source project to facilitates art-based research and performance practice within Cycling’74’s Max5.

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Moviestar is an interactive installation where the visitor plays the mainrole. The installation blends live recording from visitors, that will find themselves on a real lifesize filmset amongst cameras, lights and a bluescreen studio.

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The Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. It was made by Espen Sommer Eide at BEK spring 2009 and demonstrated in this concert at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway.

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Jamoma is a platform for interactive art-based research and performance. It consists of several parallell development efforts.

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Touring exhibition for children. BEK develops technical soltions for the touring exhibition for children,“Fiskeboller i Karri”, produced by Hanne Hilt.

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Bjørnar Habbestad and Jeff Carey collaborates on development of software for RESPIRATOR – an art-based research project initiated by Bjørnar Habbestad. Jeff Carey will also be giving a concert at Lydgalleriet Friday June 19 at 2100.

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The work is based on recordings of the local Suldal dialect and functions as a sonic post card. The semantic meaning becomes subordinate to the sounding qualities of the words and dialect.

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