In their two week work residency at BEK, Laurie Lax and Lucila Mayol will be working on a teaser of Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn (AF:S) – an Interactive Fiction with sound, based on the remote fjord of Sagfjordbotn in Nordland. The teaser will focus on a portion of material they collected in July, and give a tangible sense of the look…
The Blended Reality Lecture Series invites new media practitioners from around the world to share their work and research in Bergen. The artists that are being featured will not be travelling to Bergen, but will use video conferencing and other online tools — in sometimes unexpected ways — to experiment with the possibilities of remote lectures and interactivity. The Blended…
Working from the fast-paced and action-packed shoot-’em-up video game franchise “Time Crisis “, this project explores the crisis of the changing perception of time in the age of acceleration, and action/inaction as a response. Taking the form of an expanded reading and writing workshop at BEK, this second stage of “Time Crisis Conference” will deconstruct what constitutes the acts of…
Sonarc is an artistic computer game based on the manipulation of sound in a 3D landscape. In an “open world” structure, sound objects can be manipulated in different ways and put together into music and sound collections, as well as being the starting point for creating tasks that need to be solved.
Marieke Verbeisen will give the presentation “Bit Crushes & Square Waves” about her exhibition series Sonic Game Space at the Digital Narrative Network Conference. The conference and exhibition is a cross-faculty initiative that will present a keynote by N. Katherine Hayles on literature and AI, a series of presentations by scholars, artists and authors, and an exhibition of digital narratives.
On November 30th GumGun will be released! GumGun is a frantic and insanely rewarding 2D shoot ‘em up game for iOS and Android. It has super easy controls and can be played with one hand. GumGun is made by Stian Remvik, who does programming and software development for BEK on freelance basis.