Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The Only Lasting Truth is Change is an extended symposium investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. Collecting all the symposium threads and projects on 19–20 November, BEK invites you to an intensive two-day programme of discussions and performances, radio broadcasts and screenings, recipes and diagrams. Streaming links: Friday 19 November18:00–22:00 CET https://vimeo.com/event/1526683 (talks, conversations and presentations) Saturday…

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Online talk19 NOVEMBER 18:30Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events Curator Lucia Pietroiusti shares her reflections on the intersections of art, more-than-human paradigms and environmental justice and balance through the recent projects: Sun & Sea by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte; Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen and the climate-justice festival,…

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Live talk19 NOVEMBER 19:15Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Awne is an approach to art-making where natural farming, agroforestry, Buddhism, cosmo-centric farming, biocultural systems, forest gardening and biomimicry meet sound and art. By looking at different ways of positioning themselves as nature (instead of in nature) artists can take a different approach to their…

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Online talk19 NOVEMBER 20:30Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ If humans were to die off tomorrow, planetary ecologies would still be challenged for a very long time. This is because human terraformation has interfered with many of the forms of multispecies livability that we took for granted in the Holocene. Visions of the Anthropocene as a master plan…

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Video screening19 NOVEMBER 21:30Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ A video essay. “Time does not go by, it arrives” goes a Norwegian proverb, often heard among the elderly. We often ask ourselves: Do we have time? The concept of time may seem hands-on, but is very hard to define. Art has been perceived as…

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Live radio broadcast and breakfast20 NOVEMBER 09:00–11:00Radio Multe 93.8 FM / 1314 kHz AM, http://stream.bergenkringkaster.no:8001/radio-multe and Nygårdsgaten 52Free and open for all Live breakfast radio show aired on the Radio Multe 93.8 FM, with a continental breakfast served at the radio station, located at Nygårdsgaten 52.  While being served a light breakfast, the audience is invited to listen to and…

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Live talk20 NOVEMBER 12:45Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, second floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Artist Jackie Karuti speaks about How Clouds Are Formed — a developing body of work assembled in many parts and across different locations — and reflects on collective exploratory work of building weather instruments across Bergen, Nairobi and Berlin.  How Clouds are Formed, site-specific installation,…

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Live talk/ listening session20 NOVEMBER 12:45Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, second floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Signe Lidén has developed Circumference, an audio-recording instrument created to be shared between artists. Since October, the instrument has been included in BEK´s library of equipment, available for use by other artists.  Playing her own and others’ recordings made with the instrument, Lidén…

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Live presentation20 NOVEMBER 15:15Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, second floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Sara Eliassen presents a new chapter in a hybrid live essay film. The chapter has a variety of titles: Screened Visions/National Visions, Mediating Uncertainties, Images- and Talking Back to Them, or acting back to them, re-acting to them, affected by them, re-affecting them. Back and…

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Online talk20 NOVEMBER 16:00Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, second floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Care extends far beyond the push toward capital, the mimetic, and reason.  Many algorithmic technologies are rooted in methods that limit and cajole (data) information from the first human and computational assumptions. We assess ourselves using false dichotomies that force inadequate choices building a world…

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