Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The artistic research project Blind Spot investigates a sensory phenomenon at the gravitational center of all material knowledge. The project researches the implications of the “blind spot” to artists in the visual and performing arts concerned with the implications of perception in human experience and society. The term “blind spot” stems from medical research into the optics of the eye. “The…

BEK is a collaborating international partner in the Austrian artistic artistic research project Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT), lead by Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò. ALMAT aims at understanding the increasing influence of algorithms, translating them into aesthetic positions in sound. It builds a new perspective on algorithm agency by subjecting the realm of algorithms to experimentation and diffractive reading. Algorithms are everywhere today,…