Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK is thrilled to be part of the new project of Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary arts organisations across Europe. The network has received support from the Creative Europe programme for the project New Perspectives for Action, starting in February 2023. New Perspectives for Action is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project by Re-Imagine Europe, and builds…

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During their studio residency at BEK in May, Trude Bekk and Tom Teulon have further developed their ongoing project Sublime Synaesthesia. As part of their residency, they’ve collected and worked with material from the landscape in and around Bergen, in the form of field recordings as well as physical objects such as stones and branches. The project Sublime Synaesthesia explores…

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Eight artists were gathered in Bergen and Odda this week for a workshop with artist-researcher Susan Schuppli. Together, they have explored how events and processes leave traces in nature and ecosystems. Through site-based fieldwork, discussions, and presentations, the artists have reflected on how environmental systems are recording evidence of change, traces which are being expressed aesthetically through visible changes in…

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As a part of BEK Opening Week 2022, we offer a free two-part workshop with Dianne Murphy introducing Unity and some of its possibilities. In this workshop we will look into Unity, a cross-platform game engine. Unity is user-friendly game engine software that, whilst popular for both industry and indie game development, has also largely been adopted by other industries outside…

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We´re happy to welcome Dianne Murphy, who will be staying with us in a traineeship until the middle of March. She wants to experience how an organisation working with art and technology is organised and run, as well as share her own skills and knowledge. Murphy graduated in 2020 with an honours BA in Fine Art from Dún Laoghaire Institute…

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Working with his invented instruments, Paris-based electroacoustic composer and performer Benjamin Thigpen will be in a studio residency at BEK from 10–22 Jan 2022.  Objects such as knives, baking dishes, paper clips, and saws often figure in Thigpen´s instruments, which are built around piezo contact microphones, inductors used as magnetic field microphones, small exciters for mechanical feedback, larger coils for…

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This week, HC Gilje is in our video studio working on a project for The North Norwegian Art Centre (NNKS). Gilje has been involved with the coastal fishing community in Vardø and 3D scanned their fishing equipment and sheds. He is now making a 3D work, based on the material, to be presented in Vardø 17–20 February 2022. See the…

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During her work residency at BEK, singer and composer Hilde Annine Hasselberg will prepare audio material for the project Et lite barn (A Little Child); a concert that draws parallels between the Christmas gospel and the current refugee crisis. The sound material will mainly be developed in Ableton Live with the use of natural sounds related to the story being told in the work. During the concert, this sound material will function both as an audible backdrop and as an instrument that Hasselberg can use live on stage.

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During their work residency at BEK, Emilie Wright has been working in the sound studio composing and recording new works for immersive listening. The culmination of their work in progress, Serpent and the Egg, will be a multichannel composition of sonic fiction that incorporates improvised found objects, vocal arrangements, field recordings and synthesisers.

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Etchings of coastal sites is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Andrea Urstad ToftCraig T. Wells, Omar E. Johnsen, and Stian Remvik. The project will excavate certain rural sites of western Norway, and through the processes of montage, collage and cinematic time lapsing where the artists will focus on the notion of accelerating time image and disjointed scene transitions.

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