Espen Sommer Eide, adviser in art and technology at BEK, has written the chapter Exercises in Non-Human Listening in this new book from Shelter Press. Sommer Eide examines possible connections between music and nature in the text, as well as trying to find inspiration in sensory biology in animals. The book is out March 7th, and is soon to be found in…
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In this new book edited by Tania Toft Ag, game developer and programmer Stian Remvik, who is affiliated with BEK on a freelance basis, shares his thoughts on how the digital inspires and influences his work. The book will be launched at Scandinavia House on February 23rd, and is soon to be found in BEK’s library!
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BEK is closed during the Christmas holiday from December 22nd to January 7th. We want to thank you all for a fantastic year, and look forward to a new and exciting year of art!
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We are happy to announce that we will soon open our new space! We hope that the studios and project rooms will be operational from the 15th of December. But hold the dates for our opening program between the 18th and 31st of January 2019! A bouquet of workshops, presentations and opening party will be announced shortly. On the occasion…
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On November 30th GumGun will be released! GumGun is a frantic and insanely rewarding 2D shoot ‘em up game for iOS and Android. It has super easy controls and can be played with one hand. GumGun is made by Stian Remvik, who does programming and software development for BEK on freelance basis.
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BEK’s advisor in art and technology, Espen Sommer Eide, is in Lofoten to attend the Lofoten Sound Art Symposium. In a very interesting program and not least as part of a diverse bouquet of sound artists, he will perform his project Wind speaker / Language Memory. For this performance, Espen Sommer Eide has stored all the words of the threatened…
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BEK will be closed for the summer from June 28th to August 6th. We wish you all an inspiring and absolutely wonderful summer!
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Dear user of BEK To our great pleasure and relief, BEK has been granted a total of 1,200,000 from Rom for kunst after several years of pre-project work, to completely renovate and modernize BEK. This will be a comprehensive operation that affects our services to the users. During the period 15th of August to 15th of December, no studios, project rooms…
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BEK will be closed on the 1st of May.
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Director at BEK, Lars Ove Toft, has been granted sabbatical leave from 1st of April. During this period, Anne Marthe Dyvi, will be Acting Director (70%) and Camilla Svingen will take over administrative duties (60%). Most of you will already be familiar with Anne Marthe Dyvi, who is an artist and has been employed as Artistic Developer at BEK since 2010.…
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