Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Stian Remvik at BEK has designed and programmed the app Words Images Thoughts Objects, a site specific audio guide made by Vilde Salhus Røed for the Fine Art and Design Library, the University of Bergen Library. From Tuesday October 10th at 12.00, the audio guide will be available on iPads for use in the library, as well as for download at App Store and Google Play.

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BEK are delighted to present our first two BEK Studio Sessions “test guests”: Carsten Aniksdal & James Welburn. This week they are working together on a new composition in the sound studio here at BEK, and on Monday September 4th they will present their new work at Prøverommet. Presentation of BEK Studio Sessions (pilot): James Welburn & Carsten Aniksdal Time: Monday…

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In the summer of 2017 four artists associated with BEK are invited for one week residencies in the rural region of Fortore in South Italy. The artists will produce and present site-specific works and interventions responding to the rural conditions, developed in collaboration with local communities. The residencies are part of a bilateral sound art exchange program between Norway and…

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BEK hosts a developer workshop that focus on authoring of interactive media scenarios. The workshop gathers artists and developers associated with Studio de création et de recherche en informatique et musique électroacoustique – SCRIME at Université de Bordeaux, Verdensteatret and BEK for an intensive learning and development session. i-score is a free and open-source intermedia sequencer used in art and music…

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The artistic research project Blind Spot investigates a sensory phenomenon at the gravitational center of all material knowledge. The project researches the implications of the “blind spot” to artists in the visual and performing arts concerned with the implications of perception in human experience and society. The term “blind spot” stems from medical research into the optics of the eye. “The…

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BEK is a collaborating international partner in the Austrian artistic artistic research project Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT), lead by Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò. ALMAT aims at understanding the increasing influence of algorithms, translating them into aesthetic positions in sound. It builds a new perspective on algorithm agency by subjecting the realm of algorithms to experimentation and diffractive reading. Algorithms are everywhere today,…

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Iris Brinkborg, Hedvig Hanson Johannesson, Helle Lindskog og Isabella Solar Villaseca have been working at BEK for over a week with their project Climb Every Mountain. The project is work in progress, and Thursday evening they invite us into their process!     ѧѦ ѧ ︵͡︵ ̢ ̱ ̧̱ι̵̱̊ι̶̨̱ ̶̱ ︵ Ѧѧ ︵͡ ︵ ѧ Ѧ ̵̗̊o̵̖ ︵ ѦѦ ѧ  …

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In this one-day workshop, you will make creations in the unique environment of the Commodore 64 and translate these shapes and forms into physical objects. The workshop is led by artist Raquel Meyers, and is second part of the workshop series Digicraft.

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In and Out of Space: Critical Approaches to Spatiality in Sound and Image is a two day doctoral training workshop at the University of Aberdeen, and features keynotes, workshops and performances by Professor Paul Koonce (University of Florida), Trond Lossius (BEK) and Johannes Deutsch.

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Learn to build an instrument and customize it: The DIY-instrument can function as synth voice, as a lo-fi sample player or 8 bit drum machine. The workshop is a collaboration between Bergen Public Library and BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Art.

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