Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

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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Live conversation20 NOVEMBER 17:00Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, second floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell and philosopher Robin Mackay discuss the relationship between practice and theory and examine beliefs about creative practices: for example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well as ideas about inspiration, expression and communication…

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Discursive dinner20 NOVEMBER 18:00–21:00 (doors open at 18:00, dinner will be served from 18.30 onwards)Seminarium Fredericianum, Asylplassen 2Limited capacity, registration at https://bek.ticketco.events As part of the symposium, the art collective Tenthaus will serve a Playful Meal – a dinner of soup, salad, bread and collective games. Nourishment and digestion are natural processes which bodies carry out to exist and thrive.…

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Performance20 NOVEMBER 21:30Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at https://bek.ticketco.events/Tickets at the door: 100,- Taking the fragmented voice as a starting point, the technologically mediated performance  “Yep, that’s the mood.” delves into the texture, materiality, and quality of the voice when pitted against the more rigid structures of text-based language.  Combining rewritten, re-ordered and recomposed texts sourced from a…

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Performance20 NOVEMBER 22:00Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at https://bek.ticketco.eventsTickets at the door: 100,- Jenny Berger Myhre presents a live performance and a listening session with sounds from her collection: field recordings, computer-generated sequences and cassette tapes as well as her modular synthesizer. As a performer, Berger Myhre strives to make a space for shared listening, removing the expectations…

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Performance20 NOVEMBER 23:00Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at https://bek.ticketco.events/Tickets at the door: 100 NOK Rian Treanor leads a new group performance with materials collaboratively developed during a workshop, exploring new forms of sound synthesis, algorithmic pattern making and collaborative live performance. For the symposium, Rian Treanor convened a new workshop developed for and with people with different levels…

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Hybrid DJ set20 NOVEMBER 24:00Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Free entrance with registration at ticketco.eventsTickets at the door: 100,- Inish Sofia Hedén Næss, known mononymously as Inish, is an artist and record label spirit at Spirals based in Bergen.  For The Only Lasting Truth is Change, Inish will play techno, trance, intimate field recordings and text readings by protectors of LGBTQIA+ people.…

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The new date for the Awne workshop session, that was cancelled 27 October, is 7 November 16:00-19:00 CET.  For practical reasons we decided to hold it online, and all who are interested can join it on Zoom. Send an email to bek@bek.no to sign up and get the Zoom link. Awne is an approach to art-making where natural farming, agroforestry, Buddhism, cosmo-centric…

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As an extension of the project Inter-symmetric Works, exploring new forms of remote participation and networked interaction between audiences and collaborators, Rian Treanor convenes a workshop on sound synthesis and algorithmic pattern making for the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change. The workshop is developed for and with people with different levels of learning difficulties, as well as a…

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