Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK is participating in the BABF – Bergen Art Book Fair 2019 at Bergen Kunsthall this weekend, where we show a small selection of books and publications from our library. On our table you will find the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, KairUs, Jøran Rudi, Ellen Røed, Nervous Vision, HC Gilje, Dragan Espenschied, Olia Lialina, Josephine Bosma, and more. Marieke Verbiesen…

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Inspired by the novel The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, Espen Sommer Eide makes an eponymous spatial music album for Marres. During the exhibtion, the album will ‘live’ inside the house as well as launched on vinyl at the opening on November 15th. In the development of both sound compositions, the new instruments and the speaker technologies used in the project,…

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Scott Elliott will premiere an extract from his text work in the form of a radio play at Belgin on November 7th at 20:00. Recording of readings for the radio play has been made in BEK’s sound studio.

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In the Anthems project, Amber Ablett has been learning the national anthems of countries that people have asked her if she comes from. Ablett has worked closely with BEK since the beginning of the project, discussing conceptual questions, developing a way to film performance into video works, and working out the 12 channel sound installation that will be exhibited at…

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In October 1989, Andromeda was formed and became one of the most leading groups on the Amiga demo scene. On the occasion of their 30th anniversary, they have once again gathered for a workshop to “code, track and pixel” – i.e. programming, making music and drawing. During this weekend, they will also complete and publish a demo on Commodore Amiga…

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BEK meets EKKO: Musical collaborations and alternate methods for production.Marieke Verbiesen in conversation with Andy Jenkins (UK), Gareth Morris (UK) and Julian van Aalderen (NL)

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In her new project for Volt, which will take the form as a performance and an exhibition, Nora Joung uses legal documents from 1982 as a starting point to examine a court ruling which determined that it’s not illegal for politicians to break promises made to their voters. At BEK Joung will record and mix voiceover for a video work,…

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For the Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, Jiska Huizing was invited with the project Torn Tracks to create site-specific sound works for all the six places the exhibition has visited. BEK/Espen Sommer Eide has helped develop Torn Tracks, which is a digital interactive platform with different ways to search and organize the collection of tracks and sounds that form the basis of the…

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Marieke Verbiesen will exhibit her audiovisual interactive instrument Sonic Tornado at this years Amsterdam Dance Event’s exhibition “100 years of electronic music instruments”.



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The video The Valley is shown during this year’s Greenlightdistrict – the interdisciplinary art festival in Skien that sheds light on issues related to nature, industry, climate and the environment. In The Valley, the small village of Dale in Western Norway is used as a prism to look at global changes related to production and economy. The video was created…

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