Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

ToBe Continued… encompasses a 24h long sound marathon, during which artists and musicians from many different parts of the world will each play a half hour set that will be broadcasted through Stazione Di Topolo’s website. Amongst the artists playing this year is Espen Sommer Eide. ToBe Continued… aims to raise awareness for the World Tuberculosis Day and create links…

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Marije Baalman is currently writing a book on mapping: how can gestures through the use of sensors and controllers, computational processing be translated to output media, such as sound, light and video. Her motivation comes from her own artistic work, where the topic of mapping has played a core part since 2001, when she started building her first digital musical instrument,…

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Join us for BEK’s contribution to the Kulturbykonferansen 2020 on Tuesday, February 18 at 9.00. Please find full program and registration information (necessary but free) here.

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Welcome to the opening of the new artwork SPIRE created by Hilde Hauan for Voss Gymnas, on Monday February 10th at 13.30 – 15.00. Hauan has based the spire (sprout) motif from the traditional åttebladrosa (eight-leaf-rose) motif, and developed the pattern that has been sandblasted onto the glass. Hauan has been assisted by BEK/Stian Remvik to explore how the light…

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Welcome to this presentation of new works/works in process by Anne Marthe Dyvi, Gitte Sætre, Neal Cahoon, Samuel Brzeski and Åsne Eldøy Friday February 7th 17.00 at BEK. The artists have been part of the workshop “Returning to Actuality”, where they have explored the notions of ‘landscape’ as a diagram of structural power relations, the theory ‘Fukeiron’, and the politics…

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Maia Urstad and Lars Ove Toft will open the exhibition Etter alle solemerke at Kunsthuset Kabuso in Øystese on Saturday 8 February. But already on Wednesday, January 29, at 20.00 you can hear them introduce their project, which shows an interaction of sound and video inspired by close movements and slow changes that happen without us really being aware of…

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We round off BEK’s Opening Week 2020 with concerts by Niklas Adam, John Brennan and Tolga Balci, before DJ Tolga Balci takes over! The concert night is free and open to everyone. The doors open at 19.00. We hope to see many of you there!

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Sonarc is an artistic computer game based on the manipulation of sound in a 3D landscape. In an “open world” structure, sound objects can be manipulated in different ways and put together into music and sound collections, as well as being the starting point for creating tasks that need to be solved.

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As part of Verktøykassen (the Toolbox), we invite artists to teach us things we cannot ourselves. In this course you will build your own kinetic sculpture based on motors and wireless control system. Get ideas and inspiration for ugly and beautiful movement patterns from Niklas Adam, who has long experience working with the Verdensteatret‘s famous installations and performances.

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An artist talk with John Brennan discussing his recent investigations into the relationship between the “sonic memory” of musical instruments and improvised performance. 

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