Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Rice, wheat, maize, barley, sorghum, millet; all staple grains that are central to daily life in regions that are experiencing conflict. By bringing these grains into a humble shared meal, Conflict Grains seeks to frame eating as a form of attention: a moment of togetherness, to reflect, and gently acknowledge the interconnectedness between sustenance and survival. The dinner becomes both a gathering and a quiet question — how do we nourish ourselves amid ongoing violence, and what does it mean to share that nourishment across distance?

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In Colombia’s Tolima region, women share their struggle to preserve Indigenous knowledge and agricultural traditions. Amid conflicts over land, natural resources, and forced displacement, seeds, and the right to cultivate them, stand as symbols of both resistance and autonomy.

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BEK invites you to Kulturnatt in our project space, with screenings of the films The White Elephant by Shuruq Harb and Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1 by Marwa Arsanios, both artists affiliated with BEK.

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ASTERISK and BEK invite you to a three day workshop with Chloé Desmoineaux exploring a playful repurposing practice: hacking existing games and their interfaces and creating new game interfaces from a creative, queer, and inclusive perspective.

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You're warmly invited to a night of sound and BBQ on Friday, June 20. This year, we have something extra special to celebrate: BEK is turning 25, and we’re marking the occasion with a festive anniversary celebration, live music featuring a line-up of our current residents at BEK.

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Three-day workshop exploring spatial audio through both theory and practice led by composer Mariam Gviniashvili.

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As part of the seminar Ears to the Ground: Ecology, Environment and (Sonic) Media Technologies (beyond Eurocentric models) there will be an evening of performances at BEK. The seminar is curated by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and is a collaboration between KMD, UiB and BEK.

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Join us for a workshop at BEK where we dive into an artistic approach to A.I. and neural audio synthesis applied to sound and music. The three-day workshop focuses on the workflow behind training generative AI models and developing an artistic practice using these tools, such as RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder) and open source multi-modal audio generative systems. This workshop offers participants the opportunity to understand and implement the pipeline of neural audio synthesis—from data collection and model training to artistic implementations for sound design and musical expression.

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At the Bergen Art Book Fair, BEK launched the new publication Al-Mashrou’ A Conversation Between Shuruq Harb and Samira Makki. Project developer Åse Løvgren presented the publication at the Bergen Art Book Bath at Nordnes Sjøbad.

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BEK is participating in the Bergen Art Book Fair from April 3–6, with a presentation of a new interview publication with Shuruq Harb at this year’s Bergen Art Book Bath, and three printed works at Bergen Art Book Fair. We will also participate in the exhibition Bergen Art Book Hike at Galleri Kronborg on the top of mount Rundemanen with Gadder by Ingrid Bjørnaali. The printed works for sale are Al-Mashrou’ – A Conversation between Shuruq Harb and Samira Makki, Gadder by Ingrid Bjørnaali and Shit Out Here Purple by Roy Claire Potter.

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