Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Gerhard Eckels ‘Catabolizer’ installation will be open for the public throughout the week of the Borealis Festival at Rom 8 in Vaskerelven.

“Don’t touch me, you don’t know where I’ve been” was a commision from BEK for the composer Alwynne Pritchard. The work was premiered at Borealis 2008.

BEK bistår produksjon av kortfilm.

The flutist and improviser Bjørnar Habbestad is currently doing a residency in Albi, France, as part of a cultural exchange program between BEK and GMEA Centre National de Création Musicale. He will be collaborating with Pascal Baltazar on a joint commission from BEK and GMEA.

Peter Sinclair is an English sound artist living in Marseille, France. At Kunstakademiet, Bergen, he will talk about his own artistic works, the sound lab Locus Sonus, and give a short introduction to the PhD-program where he participates.

Don’t touch me, you don’t know where I’ve been was a commision by BEK from composer Alwynne Pritchard, premiered in 2008.

The 7th issue of the Sensuous knowledge publication series on artistic research, is dedicated to two texts discussing the work, by the composer herself and Roar Sletteland, former director at BEK.

An installation version of the work will be presented at Solstrand as part of the program for the 2009 Sensuous knowledge conference.

Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is currently Artist-in-Residence at USF Verftet. During her residency, she is developing at BEK a thirty-channel dynamic installation entitled For An Epidemic Resistance, which will be presented at Galleri Pictura / Skånska konstmuseum as their official contribution to the music and art festival Full Pull;Kontra ’09.

Leading musicians from Norway and abroad working with improvisation, interactive electronic processing and extended instruments meet up for a seminar during the Ultima festival.

Moviestar is an interactive installation where the visitor plays the mainrole. The installation blends live recording from visitors, that will find themselves on a real lifesize filmset amongst cameras, lights and a bluescreen studio.

Touring exhibition for children. BEK develops technical soltions for the touring exhibition for children,“Fiskeboller i Karri”, produced by Hanne Hilt.