If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics, you are welcome to apply for a studio residency at BEK lasting for 2–6 weeks. The application deadline is 7 January 2024. This open call applies to residencies in the period 1 February-30 June 2024. We will later announce a second open call for the period…
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The Only Lasting Truth is Change is a symposium investigating how artistic practice and its methodologies are constantly changing in response to the shifting political, technological and ecological landscapes we live in. For the 2023 edition, the symposium engages notions of Hallucinating, Computing and Collapsing to examine how different perceptions of reality arise and collide in our steadily more automated world. With…
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As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change” 2023, BEK invites creative practitioners to the “Dreaming with Nonhumans and AI Workshop” led by Lakota artist, composer and academic Dr. Suzanne Kite. The “Dreaming with Nonhumans and AI Workshop” is a two-day workshop exploring the concept of collaborating with AI as nonhuman entities. Participants will delve into their…
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The BEK symposium team – Maria Rusinovskaya, Åse Løvgren, Morten Halvorsen, Kaeto Sweeney and Johanne Øra Danielsen – would like to thank you all warmly: The artists, scholars and thinkers for taking part in the programme and engaging with the symposium themes: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, N. Katherine Hayles, Jennifer Gabrys, Haig Aivazian, Jenna Sutela, Damien Roach, patten, Ibiye Camp,…
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FilmTime: 19 November, 11:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Language: Arabic, English subtitlesDuration: 77 minutesFree entry. We encourage donating a regular ticket fee to Medical Aid for Palestine. There will be options for donation available at the venue. As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change” we screen Ouroboros, visual artist Basma al-Sharif’s first feature-length film. It is an homage to the…
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TalkTime: 17 November, 19:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The talk will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Climate change policies and the green energy transition have renewed colonial structures and injustices for Indigenous peoples in land-use conflicts, but not without resistance. This talk explores epistemic controversies in a legal struggle concerning impacts from wind energy infrastructure on Southern Saami reindeer herding and culture in…
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Opening of the installations: 16 Nov 18:00-21:00Opening hours: 17 Nov 16:00–22:0018 Nov 12:00–22:0019 Nov 12:00–16:00Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 NORA AL-BADRI: BABYLONIAN VISION With Babylonian Vision Nora Al-Badri expands on speculative archeology, as well as decolonial and machine learning museum practices by generating emancipatory technoheritage. A pre-trained neural network based on a GAN model (General Adversarial Network), technoheritage was trained with 10.000k…
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Opening of the SOUP studio at Bergen Assembly space16 Nov, 19:00Opening hours: 17-19 Nov, 12:00-16:0019 Nov 13:00 – Collective performative meal in the SOUP studio (sign up here) Venue: Bergen Assembly, Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4 Building on their interests in data visualisation; translating knowledge between different systems of encoding; asking questions of accessibility and participation in digital cultures – the Critical Craft…
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Live-setTime: 18 November, 23:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre skostredet 3The performance will be streamed on vimeo.com/bekdotno “AIR” is a newly commissioned audiovisual performance by patten (Damien Roach), working within the realms of modern composition, ambient, and classical music. “AIR” is a constantly shifting and hypnotic musical suite assembled from hundreds of sound clips generated using text-to-audio AI systems, and layered, edited,…
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PerformanceTime: 18 November, 21:45 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The performance will be streamed at vimeo.com/bekdotno “Admiror” is a collaborative work by artists Bahar Noorizadeh and Klara Kofen that stages five episodic dialogues on the sentimental logic of capitalism and their revolutionary dialectical doubles. A decade before publishing his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith released his less discussed…
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