Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

On a nationwide cinema tour with the Norwegian silent movie classic “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (1926), Ugress, Krakow, 9 grader nord, Nasra Ali Omar and Annlaug Børsheim aim to redefine romantic nationalism: What does being “Norwegian” mean in 2020? This will be a grand new musical work, performed by a superband from Western Norway, commissioned by Cinemateket USF, that premieres at BIFF and Vill Vill Vest in…

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The artist duo Gitte Sætre and Frans Jacobi is working in our video studio these weeks. Towards 2021 they will have several work residencies at BEK to develop and realise Are You Ready? – a hybrid tv series. During their residencies they will do pre-production, production and post production.

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In this last Verktøykassen before the summer, we will present three different data-based creative tools: TouchDesigner, Vuo and openFrameworks. TouchDesigner and Vuo are visual exhibition platforms, while in openFrameworks you code with C ++. With these tools you can, for example, create and change video and animation in real time, create interactive user experiences or make visualization for music.

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Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Wednesday April 24th Adam Parkinson and Tine Surel Lange presented the results of their collaboration during…

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This Verktøykassen will be about LED lights and Arduino. Connecting one LED light to an Arduino is not very difficult, but what if you want to connect to 50 lights or LED strips? We will look at what type of Arduino accessories, how much power is needed and how to connect everything to make this happen.

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During the residency at BEK, Morten will be working on a new series of sound works titled Phantoms on the threshold of perception. In the sound studio he will develop variations of the compositions to prepare them for both live presentation and installation. There will be open sessions and presentations of the concepts which will be open for public.  First presentation will…

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What is an album? What can an album made for a building be? The Waves aims to rethink the album format of an era where the album is declared dead repeatedly and the music must be created for an audience with attention for no more than 35 minutes of focused listening. The difference between a “recording” and a live experience…

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In this Verktøykassen we will be looking into video synchronization; when two or more videos are playing synchronously on separate screens or projectors. Course leader Stian Remvik will present various methods with different software and hardware, and look closer at the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods.

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In the period of March 18th – April 5th, Anne Marthe Dyvi will be in BEK’s video studio where she will mainly work on the video This Thing about Time (work title). The project will be shown at Galleri Langegården in 2020, in dialogue with Trudi Jaeger’s artistic practice and Langegården as a historical place. This Thing about Time has the ambition to…

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After releasing two EP’s, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik, aka Niilas, has started to work on his first album. Niilas will continue this work in BEK’s sound studio March 18 – 24th, where he mainly will do the last compositions, make selections and create transitions between the songs. The album will be made as a continuous listening experience.

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