The artist Peter Flemming will come to BEK and lead one day workshop with high experimentation factor; Fredag 23rd of November / 11-16. Electromagnetism, experimental speaker, found material, ready-mades, ressonans, DIY, lunch, art, BEK, Peter Flemming, you.
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The last Max meetup before the summer will be on June 8th. This is a monthly opportunity for artists using Max to come together and share ideas and patches and get help with problems they are stuck at.
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BEK offers a one-week introductory workshop to the software Max. Max is an intuitive graphical environment for real-time processing of all kinds of media (sound, video, MIDI, light, sensors and robotics), and can be used for music, sound art, video, installations, works for stage and in interaction design. Instructor is Trond Lossius.
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From Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th of December, BEK hosts a workshop in OpenFrameworks; a programming language develloped and applied in interactive artworks. OpenFrameworks is a powerful open source tool designed to simplify building creative applications, it has rapidly become one of the tools of choice for a new era of creative designers.
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Monday 6, Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 December BEK runs a VPT workshop. HC Gilje will provide a basic introduction to the use of a video projection tool he has developed. The workshop will consist of introduction, setup to get started, and then groups of three people each will work “hands on” testing different projections. Free admission. Registration by mail to bek[at]bek.no
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Trond Lossius participates at a GDIF SpatDIF meeting at Ircam. The goal of the meeting is to advance on the GDIF-Gesture Description Interchange Format and SpatDIF-Spatial sound Description Interchange Format, discussing current issues and choices made by the different research groups working with gesture or spatialization data, and decide on further collaborative actions.
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Marìa Andueza Olmedo is writhing a PhD thesis about Sound Art called “Urban Site-Specific Sound Installations”. Thanks to a grant of the NILS mobility project for researchers and artists, she will move from Madrid to Bergen for 3 months, to continue her research at BEK and at the National Academy of the Arts.
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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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In April Trond Lossius, director of BEK, will be doing a 2 week research visit to the the real-time musical interactions team at IRCAM in Paris. The visit is funded as a short-term scientific mission by the COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design.
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Trond Lossius will be participating in a workshop at the University of York. The workshop is part of the European research project COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design.
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