Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Symposium

Film screening: “Ouroboros” by Basma Al-Sharif

FilmTime: 19 November, 11:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Language: Arabic, English subtitlesDuration: 77 minutesFree entry. We encourage donating a regular ticket fee to Medical Aid for Palestine. There will be options for donation available at the venue. As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change” we screen Ouroboros, visual artist Basma al-Sharif’s first feature-length film. It is an homage to the…

Østre, Østre skostredet 3 19.11.2023–19.11.2023

Eva Maria Fjellheim: Wind Energy as Green Colonialism – Epistemic Controversies and Strategic Ignorance in Norway’s Green Energy Transition

TalkTime: 17 November, 19:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The talk will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Climate change policies and the green energy transition have renewed colonial structures and injustices for Indigenous peoples in land-use conflicts, but not without resistance. This talk explores epistemic controversies in a legal struggle concerning impacts from wind energy infrastructure on Southern Saami reindeer herding and culture in…

NORA AL-BADRI, JENNA SUTELA, DAMIEN ROACH

Opening of the installations: 16 Nov 18:00-21:00Opening hours: 17 Nov 16:00–22:0018 Nov 12:00–22:0019 Nov 12:00–16:00Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 NORA AL-BADRI: BABYLONIAN VISION With Babylonian Vision Nora Al-Badri expands on speculative archeology, as well as decolonial and machine learning museum practices by generating emancipatory technoheritage. A pre-trained neural network based on a GAN model (General Adversarial Network), technoheritage was trained with 10.000k…

Critical Craft Collective: SOUP

Opening of the SOUP studio at Bergen Assembly space16 Nov, 19:00Opening hours: 17-19 Nov, 12:00-16:0019 Nov 13:00 – Collective performative meal in the SOUP studio (sign up here) Venue: Bergen Assembly, Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4 Building on their interests in data visualisation; translating knowledge between different systems of encoding; asking questions of accessibility and participation in digital cultures – the Critical Craft…

patten: AIR

Live-setTime: 18 November, 23:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre skostredet 3The performance will be streamed on vimeo.com/bekdotno “AIR” is a newly commissioned audiovisual performance by patten (Damien Roach), working within the realms of modern composition, ambient, and classical music. “AIR” is a constantly shifting and hypnotic musical suite assembled from hundreds of sound clips generated using text-to-audio AI systems, and layered, edited,…

Bahar Noorizadeh & Klara Kofen: Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments

PerformanceTime: 18 November, 21:45 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The performance will be streamed at vimeo.com/bekdotno “Admiror” is a collaborative work by artists Bahar Noorizadeh and Klara Kofen that stages five episodic dialogues on the sentimental logic of capitalism and their revolutionary dialectical doubles. A decade before publishing his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith released his less discussed…

Lesia Vasylchenko: Chronosphere – a performative lecture

In collaboration with Ørjan AmundsenTime: 18 November, 18:15 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3This lecture will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Today, anticipation produces a temporality that is oriented towards both the present moment and the undefined future. Slowness, for some societies, is a privilege, and for others, a danger to life; the disruption of synchronicity can be an act of…

Østre 18.11.2023

Michele Elam: How Does AI Do “Race”? (And Why It Matters to Almost Everything)

Online talkTime: 18 November, 17:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The talk will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno In the tech industry, it is common practice to situate concerns about AI bias and discrimination under the category of business “risk,” a risk best addressed with technical solutions. (“Risk” in this context is less an ethical than it is an economic or…

Østre 18.11.2023

Magnhild Øen Nordahl & Gabriele de Seta: Replicator Report: Generative AI and physical production

ConversationTime: 18 November, 16:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Sksotredet 3The conversation will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Visual artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl and researcher Gabriele de Seta discuss the relationship between generative AI and physical production. The conversation looks back at the “Replicator Workshop: A practical speculation on generative AI for physical production” convened by Øen Nordahl and de Seta in…

N. Katherine Hayles: Do LLMs Understand Humans and Their Questions, or Are They “Stochastic Parrots”?

Talk Time: 18 November, 14:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The lecture will not be streamed Evidence is mounting that Large Language Models (LLMs) of large enough scale, on the order of GPT-4, possess an array of reasoning powers as well as theory of mind that enables them to predict not just the next word in a sequence (their explicit task)…

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