Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

For the exhibition Numinous Beginnings at Lydgalleriet, Anne Cecilie Lie has made a new version of the geolocative site-sensitive sound-walk Entangled Formations initially created for the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The new sound-walk, placed at Nordnes in Bergen, focuses on bird species that could call both places home. At a time when travel is difficult, Entangled Formation – Bergen Edition, offers…

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During the work residency at BEK, Kim Hankyul will develop a new body of work for the upcoming solo show at Gyldenpris Kunsthall later in the spring 2021. In the project, analogue sound plates will be scrutinized as physical bodies with literary scenery, each of which has a potential of storing a narrative in the format of physical projection and…

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Welcome to this workshop in the experimental software Lizard Ladder, with artist and animator Ted Wiggin. Lizard Ladder automatically generates animated inbetween frames from hand drawn images. Wiggin wil hold the workshop via Zoom from New York, and the participants can join digitally or at BEK.

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Download the BITWaves2 app for free: AppleAndroid BITWaves allows you to record sound and play audio by moving your fingers across the screen. With the new version, you can also play polyphonic sound by using several fingers at once. Moving your fingers across the screen, you can make the sounds become lower and slower. What does the clinking of a…

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BEK follows up the success of the first Machine learning for sound-makers workshop, with Luke Fischbecq (ph.d USC), this time as an online week-long workshop. Old and new participants will investigate the latest AI technologies on working with art and machine learning. Main focus is still audio, but also visual projects will be investigated to broaden the scope of the…

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In their two week work residency at BEK, Laurie Lax and Lucila Mayol will be working on a teaser of Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn (AF:S) – an Interactive Fiction with sound, based on the remote fjord of Sagfjordbotn in Nordland. The teaser will focus on a portion of material they collected in July, and give a tangible sense of the look…

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Craig Wells currently works at BEK with no less than seven collaborative projects, ranging from live modular synthesis, to improvisation, sound design and composition. Many of the projects can be experienced by audiences in Bergen during the autumn, and in December Wells will give a presentation of his practice at BEK.

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We are very happy to have Ayatgali Tuleubek in our studios these weeks, who have been invited to Bergen in a collaboration between Aldea, Hordaland Art Centre and BEK. Earlier this summer, he was one of the tutors at Hordaland Art Centre’s Summer Academy, and at the end of September, the work currently being developed at BEK will be shown in Aldea’s…

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Submit a portrait of yourself here www.gruppebilde.bek.no, and become part of a group image with Bergen's residents! Using technology that interprets photographs and creates new images, artist Toril Johannessen will create a comprehensive group image based on submitted portrait photos. The final image will become two large tapestries for Bergen City Hall where people and their elected representatives meet. Everyone who lives in Bergen is hereby invited to participate.

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Our latest Verktøykassen (the Toolbox) offering is an introductory workshop in the development tool Max: a flexible, powerful visual programming software that uses on-screen boxes and “wires”. In addition to making complex sounds and music, you will have the oportunity to manipulate videos or create animations. Max also allows you to connect all kinds of keyboards, controller knobs and other…

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