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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BEK is closed during the Easter holiday from Monday March 26th to Monday April 2nd. Those of you who have an agreement on the use of project rooms and studios are welcome to use these.
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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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Almat and BEK are happy to announce the call for participation in a workshop-in-exposition taking place at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This will be a part of Notam and BEK’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. The workshop will take on a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form…
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BEK is closed during the Christmas holiday from December 20th to January 7th. Those of you who have an agreement on the use of project rooms and studios are welcome to use these. 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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This autumn, Trond Lossius ended his position at BEK as Research Coordinator, in order to take up a new post as Head of Artistic Research and Fellowship Programme at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Trond has been active at BEK since its very beginning in 2000, as Director, Technical Manager for Sound Art, and as a pioneer of artistic…
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BEK has a reference library with literature, journals and catalogues that focus on contemporary art and music, particularly sound art and new media, as well as technical reference literature. As a BEK-user, you can take books out, otherwise the library is available for reference reading at BEK. We provide access to electronic literature and lynda.com, where there are a variety…
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