Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

A diverse community of contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers have been working in BEK’s studios in 2025, exploring sound, image, performance, and technology. Their practices traverse landscapes both real and imagined, blending critical inquiry with experimental approaches to perception, identity, and society.

Artists working in BEK’s studios during spring 2025

Ananda Serné is a writer and visual artist based in Bergen. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts, and has been awarded several research and studio residencies, such as the Jan van Eyck Post-academic Institute in Maastricht, Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei, and at Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard. Set in a society struggling with sleeplessness, her debut novel “Nachtbloeiers” was published in the Netherlands in 2022. 

Luke Drozd is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with collage, collecting and collaborative improvisation. Using mediums including long-form film, print and audio composition, his work explores the forgotten, lost and overlooked.

Tinja Ruusuvuori is a Finland-based artist and filmmaker with a focus on subjective and creative documentary-making. She is drawn to charged objects, images, and gestures that seem to obey some mysterious order – and seeks to cultivate, rather than eradicate, that sense of mystery. Her current interests include alternative ways of belonging and kinship, and reimagining systems of labour and value. Humour, collaboration and co-regulation are central to her work.

Maxime Hourani is a multidisciplinary artist and architect who works with time-based media, exploring the transformation of landscapes and shifting ecologies.
Houranis work combines poetic and political representations of land and social change. His research focuses on 19th-century Arab futurism, examining posthuman thought around the Industrial Revolution. He also explores Petro-modernity and the impact of the 1970s oil crisis on architecture in the Middle East and Gulf region.

Evelin Lindberg, as part of Borealis Ung Komponist. Lindberg is a sound artist who works with technology and performance as a tool, reference and field for conceptual explorations. Taking shape in multi-channel sound and video, websites and apps, modified instruments, performances, installations and other extended and work-specific formats, Lindberg’s work aims to investigate the interfaces between artistic practice and society and its potential to confront the current time.

Annie Tådne is an audiovisual artist interested in transforming perceptions of reality. She creates video scenographies for theatre and works as a sound and video artist, exhibiting performative installations and interactive experiences. She is also a co-founder of the audiovisual festival and artist collective NONAGON.

Elin Már Øyen Vister is a genderqueer Norwegian artist based in the Røst archipelago, the westernmost part of the Lofot/Lofuohhta islands in Sábme/The north of Norway. Their artistic research practice is slow-moving, curious, and site-specific, inspired by Deep Listening, intersectional and eco feminist perspectives, social justice movements and Indigenous philosophy and methodologies.
Elin Már has since 2010 spent time listening to the culture-nature soundscapes of the Røst archipelago, in Nordland/Nordlánnda, Northern Norway -Sábme, and to the silencing of the birdmountains due to climate change, historical overfishing and climate change.

Benjamin Busch is a US-American/German visual artist living in Berlin. First trained as an architect (M.A. Arch.), he received his M.A. in Spatial Strategies in 2017 from the Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin. In his artistic practice, he employs architecture as a narrative device to shed light on underrepresented communities. Through his critical writing, social practice, and mixed-media and multimedia artworks, Busch engages the production of space as a convergence of its perceived, conceived, and lived modalities. 

Axine M is the moniker of music artist Maxine de las Pozas. The Ancient Greek Axenos, or “inhospitable place,” is a name for the Black Sea before nautical technology was advanced enough to safely traverse the water. Axine M is a vessel for musical inquiries and creative impulses across multiple genres and sentiments, carving out a space for itself against the grain of the dystopian imaginary.

Aisling Phelan is an Irish multidisciplinary artist working across 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies. Her work explores what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological advancement and pervasive algorithmic influence. Deeply concerned with the body, particularly the face, she uses her own digital doubles to question the abstraction, fragmentation, and fluidity of identity in virtual spaces.

Jenny Berger Myhre is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video, and photography. Her work aims to move beyond expectations of virtuosic musical gestures by focusing on sound itself and the mental images it evokes. She is inspired by listening as a relational act — a way of connecting with the world and with other beings.

Niklas Adam is a Danish artist, composer, recordist, performer, and computer programmer. He has worked in stage art for over a decade, with a focus not only on music but also on developing choreography for robotic sculptures. His primary concerns are sound, movement, time, and space.

Guillemette Legrand is an artist whose research-practice focuses on documenting, renarrating and rehearsing other possible computational infrastructure and their cosmologies. They do this through participatory and artistic interventions such as workshops, multimedia installations, films, game environments, and lecture performances. Their current research explores climate modelling as cosmological practices through the lens of the cosmogram (a multi-modal worlding of the Earth).

Corin Ileto is a Filipina-Australian electronic music producer, performer and composer working in the field of experimental electronic music, sound art and sound design. In her compositions, traditional forms merge with hyper-digital sounds to create new imaginary realms. Coming from a background in classical piano, Ileto is interested in creating a sonic space in which western classical music can be hybridized with contemporary electronic production and non-western forms. Her releases are speculative mythologies drawing from science fiction, western classical music, and her Filipino ancestral heritage.

Rajat Mondal is an Intermedia artist based in Oslo, Norway. He worked on the project “Cubed Swarm”, an installation exploring human advancement and environmental degradation, incorporating the interplay of visible and invisible elements through the element of mist and air.

Cameron Graham is an artist, musician, sensory percussion drummer and educator, interested in the capacity of intermedia performance and technological experimentation to structure, reorient and proliferate sonic and musical experience. His work unfolds between cross-genre sound and performance, installation, live game-engine architectures and sound sculpture.

Mohammed Rowe explores the intersection of sound, technology, and sensory engagement, crafting immersive experiences that connect people and transform spaces. From interactive installations to film, theater, and Performance, his projects bring together cross-disciplinary collaboration to create participatory soundscapes. Drawing on urban rhythms, found sounds, and textured atmospheres, he invites audiences into multisensory experiences that merge physical and digital realms, fostering curiosity and shared understanding across diverse communities. His goal is to provoke reflection on our relationship with sound, offering innovativ

Daiyen Jone Castro and Knut Jonas Sellevold: ‘to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest’ came about around a shared interest in natural soundscapes, field recordings, and the fourth world music of artists such as Jon Hassell and Roberto Musci. The name is more than a band name, and points towards an open concept – a continuous and open process where nature, people and music find themselves in a constant, improvised interaction. The duo uses field recordings that are looped and combined with electronic manipulation of live elements such as flute, voice and percussion.

Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice— including video, sound, performance, and writing— explores the position of witness within fragile systems. Their work in sound and moving image considers gender, technology, disability, and illness in connection with environmental research. They are a primary organizer of the ongoing project lucky dragons.

Artists working in BEK’s studios during summer and autumn 2025

Roar Sletteland works in contemporary music, performing arts, and sound art. He creates audio equipment, robotics, and musical instruments for his own and others’ projects, and runs the experimental opera company Ursus Productions.

Nicola Gunn is a Bergen-based Australian artist working across contemporary performance, installation, video and writing.

Tatiana De Fatima Palanca Lopes Pereira is a vocalist and songwriter, mainly within soul and alternative hip-hop, and is known for energetic shows. She is currently involved in the projects Angola Yangue and Eyemba. She made a guest appearance with the latter at Den National Scene in 2021. Tatiana is also a DJ and curator for the concept Klubb Diaspora.

Vilde Salhus Røed is a visual artist working across media such as photography, text, books, video, sound, and other technologies. Photography plays a central role in her practice, where stories from archives and personal narratives are connected to technological, cultural-historical, and socio-political contexts.

Kaja Haven is an emerging artist working between sound, installation, performance, video and mechanics. Her interdisciplinary practice often revolve around everyday objects, space and activation, as socially staged events and performative matter that is frequently paired with overly dramatic temperaments and emotional layerings.

soso brafield is an artist from Suffolk, raised in the Lakes District, UK and is based in Bergen, Norway. A graduate from MA Fine Arts at Bergen Academy of Art in 2014. Gathering is the overarching theme in her practice. From the physicality of making gathering spaces to the ephemeral nature of gathering people. Gathering is so important in today’s world, a primal force that nurtures a sense of belonging and community, of togetherness and unity. Brafield´s practice bends the conventional notion of art production and places emphasis on the nurturing of culture and community.

Dorota Dziong is a Polish-Canadian artist based in Bergen, Norway, having completed the MFA program at KMD at University of Bergen. Her multidisciplinary work spans painting, photography, video, animation, and site-responsive installation. Recent work explores the intrinsic human need for containment—both physical shelter for our bodies and containers for the things we collect. Dorota investigates the meaning of objects and how we assign them different types of values and she explores real, imaginary, and metaphorical spaces. She’s drawn to the absurd—shaped during formative years under autocratic rule, where daily life felt surreal.

Yasemin Orhan is an independent filmmaker and animator. Her practice is rooted in crafting stories, acting out characters and making objects come to life. Combining a touch of wizardry and (very) forgiving mechanical work, stop-motion allows her to explore tactility and performance making it the ideal medium for making allusions to intimate moments from everyday life. She holds a master’s from Art Academy in Bergen and currently is based between Istanbul and Bergen, working as a freelance artist.

Emilie Wright is an artist from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Their practice operates between the sonic and the visual, exploring modes of presence across spatial sound, movement, architectural environment and live performance.

Julia Cremers’ performance art practice explores collective mindfulness as a counterpoint to the pressures of techno-capitalism. Julia investigates how our focus on productivity and efficiency not only erodes human connection and diversity, but also depletes both the human body and the planet’s ecosystems. By examining the intersection of body and technology — informed by concerns around digital surveillance and Julia’s personal use of assistive technologies, including an inner-ear prosthesis — she creates experiences that invite slowing down, presence, and shared attention.

Loulou Buxbom works with moving images, as they allow her to rediscover reality and push the boundaries of the embarrassing. She uses film as a tool to critique and engage with sociological issues within family dynamics and social heritage. To understand how our backgrounds influence our presence and relationships with others, she questions her own identity through personal experiences and familial relationships. Through relatable and self-exposing work, she encourages dialogue about class, culture, behaviour, and attachments.

Antonia Luxem‘s multifaceted practice – spanning film, writing, performance and painting – investigates different realities and embodied experiences to explore themes of metaphysics, human perception, existential anxiety, dreams, time travel, and queer identity, inviting viewers into richly layered mental landscapes that challenge conventional notions of time and presence.

Image: Benjamin Busch presenting his work at BEK. Photo: BEK