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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We bid a fond and teary-eyed farewell to Vilde Salhus Røed as she leaves BEK to allow more time for her own artistic practice. Vilde has been with us since 2016 as information manager. With her great capacity for work, sharp wits and broad field of inquiry, she has been central to most of what has been developed at BEK…
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We are happy and excited to welcome two new members into the BEK team! From August 2021, BEK has hired Åsne Hagen as information manager and Kaeto Sweeney as production assistant in art and technology. Åsne Hagen is the new information manager. Before joining BEK, she held the position of market coordinator at Tekstallmenningen and, prior to that, managing director of…
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STUDIO, part of Public Art Norway’s project for the new KMD building in Møllendalsveien 61, was launched today at KMD. STUDIO will unfold as a series of collaborative projects between the departments at KMD, Bergen and the world and will explore work processes and studio practice in the arts, music and design and how these can be linked to art…
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In this workshop, artist Roar Sletteland and acoustic engineer Paal Rasmussen will demonstrate the possibilities for using loudspeakers in works of art, and how to make your own custom-built speaker. -Dates: 27 and 30 September from 12–17-Location: BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, C. Sundts gate 55-Fee: NOK 500,--Sign-up to bek@bek.no by 13 September. Limited number of spots – first come, first served! Aesthetics,…
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We have two available spots in a two-part workshop with Fredrik Salhus (photogrammetry) and Susan Schuppli (Material Witness). In the workshop, we will look at how visual traces in a landscape can be read, and how these traces can function as witnesses of ongoing processes like destruction of nature, climate changes, or political and economic transformations. Part 1: Photogrammetry with Fredrik…
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The VUMA collective has developed a new iteration of the geo-triggered audio app VUMA Soner, which will be presented as part of the exhibition The Ocean at Bergen Kunsthall opening on 28 August 2021. In the form of a guided tour, a racialised Bergenser tells local histories, using the moving in and out of Bergen via the sea as a departure point…
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We are reopening our studios and spaces 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 one of our studios for a period of 2-4 weeks. The residencies are open to professional artists and we prioritise projects that are experimental in their use of technology, or interrogate its relationship to art and society. We offer our facilities and equipment, and expect artists to work independently, however Studio Residents are also able to apply for advice sessions with our in-house experts to help with specific project needs.
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