Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

We are delighted to announce that Morten Norbye Halvorsen joins the BEK team. Halvorsen was recently hired as our new producer in art and technology. He will be working on building further BEK’s production facilities and competence, developing and supporting artistic projects, organising workshops and courses, and contributing to BEK’s theoretical research.

–We are thrilled to start working with Morten as he brings to BEK multifaceted technological expertise, great knowledge of the Norwegian and international contemporary art scene, and an inspiring personal history of multidisciplinary projects with an exciting international network, says BEK director Maria Rusinovskaya.

–We searched widely to find the right person. There were 35 applications for the position and many highly qualified applicants.

Halvorsen will be in Bergen before the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change kicks off, producing several of the symposium projects.

MORTEN NORBYE HALVORSEN

Morten Norbye Halvorsen is an artist and composer, whose sound works and musical performances are guided by props, websites, photographs, scripted recordings and concert appearances in an ongoing exploration of collaboration and sound. Halvorsen’s work has been included in group and solo exhibitions including OVERPRINTS, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2022), Field Works, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar (2020), My Summer is your Winter, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2019), HTML Curtain, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2019), 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland-museet, Oslo (2017), Wave Table Concert, Kunsthall Stavanger (2016), Gain Vapor Rise, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2016), All the Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015), The Companion,& Liverpool Biennial, (2014), Pan Exciter, NoPlace, Oslo, Alluvium, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerpen; oO, The Lithuanian/Cyprus Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale (2013) Repetition Island, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010) and Paper Exhibition, Artist Space, New York (2009).