We look back in gratitude at everything that Espen Sommer Eide and Marieke Verbiesen have contributed to BEK throughout the last two decades. Espen and Marieke recently left their positions as advisers in art and technology to work on their own projects. It will be quite a challenge to make up for their absence at BEK! From his years at…
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BEK invites participants to a new online workshop on the topic of machine learning for sound makers, as part of our collaboration series with Notam: “Workshops for Advanced Users”. Workshop dates: 20–24 June Registration deadline: 31 May This workshop will focus on the recently developed software / machine learning model RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder), and is led by the…
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Thanks for dropping by BEK during Resonating Nordnes on Sunday 20 March! We counted more than 100 visitors throughout the day, enjoying a Radio Multe 93.8FM broadcast about Nordnes history from our listening station or taking part in a family workshop on sound making. The events at BEK were a part of Resonating Nordnes and Borealis 2022. More on the Radio…
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[Update: the workshop is now fully booked!] We have two vacant spots for the workshop series “Rewilding Practice” in spring 2022. The workshop is aimed at artists, musicians, curators, and educators. Please get in touch at bek@bek.no if you would like to attend! There will be three sessions: 23 March, 13:00-15:00 CET – Online session.13 April, 13:00-15:00 CET – Online…
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Eight artists were gathered in Bergen and Odda this week for a workshop with artist-researcher Susan Schuppli. Together, they have explored how events and processes leave traces in nature and ecosystems. Through site-based fieldwork, discussions, and presentations, the artists have reflected on how environmental systems are recording evidence of change, traces which are being expressed aesthetically through visible changes in…
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We´re happy to welcome Dianne Murphy, who will be staying with us in a traineeship until the middle of March. She wants to experience how an organisation working with art and technology is organised and run, as well as share her own skills and knowledge. Murphy graduated in 2020 with an honours BA in Fine Art from Dún Laoghaire Institute…
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Our studios and spaces are open for short term project residencies at BEK. If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics you are welcome to apply for a residency in our studios for a period of 2-4 weeks. Application deadline: 15 January 2022. The residencies are open to professional artists and we prioritise projects…
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Do you remember when you last heard a new musical genre for the first time, or a completely new auditory universe, or a surprising combination of sounds you did not expect to fit together? With BEK Studio Sessions, we aim to cultivate this moment. For this version, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik and Elina Waage Mikalsen will be working together in BEK´s…
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As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, BEK invites creative practitioners to the workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Led by multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell, with philosopher Robin Mackay, this workshop series aims to critically examine beliefs about creative practice — for example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well…
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This week, eight participants are assembled on BEKs premises for part one of the workshop “Landscape as Material Witness”. In the inaugural part of the workshop, Fredrik Salhus gave an introduction to photogrammetry as a tool for artists. The participants have been presented with ways to use photogrammetry when mapping and investigating objects or smaller defined areas. As a technique,…
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