Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

For the exhibition Numinous Beginnings at Lydgalleriet, Anne Cecilie Lie has made a new version of the geolocative site-sensitive sound-walk Entangled Formations initially created for the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The new sound-walk, placed at Nordnes in Bergen, focuses on bird species that could call both places home. At a time when travel is difficult, Entangled Formation – Bergen Edition, offers…

Download the BITWaves2 app for free: AppleAndroid BITWaves allows you to record sound and play audio by moving your fingers across the screen. With the new version, you can also play polyphonic sound by using several fingers at once. Moving your fingers across the screen, you can make the sounds become lower and slower. What does the clinking of a…

Maria Rusinovskaya will moderate a conversation with VUMA Projects on the event Latent City – Invisible Fields #1, 21 November at Bergen Kjøtt. Maria Rusinovskaya is currently Curator of Live Programme at Bergen Kunsthall, where since 2014, she has been developing and presenting a comprehensive programme with a discursive series, music, performance and moving image. In December 2020 she will…

Welcome to Latent City – Invisible Fields #1, a programme that brings issues raised in the exhibition Latent City into dialogue through performances, talks, presentations and more. The programme will be live streamed, and through Zoom you can participate with your questions and omments. Details below. Latent City – Invisible Fields #1 on Saturday 21 November 14:00 – 18:00 live…

Welcome to the opening of Latent City 12 November from 19.00 – live streamed directly to you from Bergen Kjøtt! The opening night presents the launch of the VUMA Soner app, performances by Kaeto Sweeney and Gitte Sætre & Frans Jacobi, video screening of Tivon Rice, and a DJ set from Jiska Huizing.

Please note that the opening will be streamed only, due to current covid-19 restriction in Bergen.

Latent City presents artistic productions dealing with the city’s hidden stories. Seen through the lens of artistic observation, latent infrastructures and questions of digital presence and of power and democracy in our cities, meet in an exhibition that takes place over three weeks. The Latent City is the city that awaits, the one that is about to unfold, our common…

VUMA Soner VUMA ProjectsApp with geo-triggered audio walks, plus guided walks VUMA Soner honours the voices, stories and talent of people of colour in Scandinavia. It is an app created by VUMA Projects with geo-triggered immersive audio experiences. This chapter of the app contains a collection of thoughts, reflections, and conversations, remembered or spontaneous, tied to specific landmarks, buildings and areas…

Prøverommet invites you to participate in a beta test* of VUMA Soner, the geo-triggered audio app by VUMA Projects, made in collaboration with BEK. Tickets are free but registered through TicketCo (only 8 spaces per time-slot).

Between April 23rd – May 10th, BEK will present a selection of projects reflecting on the technological challenges facing our current and future cities. The projects take a range of temporal and spatial formats, including single performances, workshops, an exhibition, a sound app and a video programme on loop.

A brand new version of music app BITWaves will be launched on Saturday 24th February. BITWaves2 has been designed and programmed by Stian Remvik at BEK. The app was commissioned by BIT20 Ensemble for their composition project Let’s Compose! The launch event will take place at Bergen Public Library, where Remvik will demonstrate the app with BIT20 Ensemble’s Ole André Farstad. The audience…