Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Read www.ShowMeLove here! Throughout the ages, man has sought together in community. For love, for friendship, for getting the job done, for building society. This time is no exception. We seek together more than ever, but the community of our time is ambivalent. Everyone wants to be seen, everyone can see – and everyone keeps their thoughts to themselves.

Nayara Leite will develop a performance for Latent City – Invisible Fields #1, at Bergen Kjøtt 21 November, based on her latest and ongoing project Meus Caros Amigos. The project contains a letter correspondence with 10 close friends in Brazil regarding the situation for the LGBTQ+ community since the election of the self-proclaimed homophobic president Jair Bolsonaro. This performance will…

See the digital presentation of the installation here. Can artistic methods be used to critically engage with present day behaviours around eating and consumption? TM:MPFP is an artistic speculation on food practices in relation to health, politics, culture and society. Food-biopolitics questions how the agency of food relates to genes, cell fragments, proteins, enzymes, bacteria and fungi and in a larger context to contemporary politics. GaraGara explores ideas related to food-biopolitics on a local and international scale.

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…

See the digital presentation of the installation here. Maren Dagny Juell has been invited by BEK to develop a new work that takes as its departure the formidable development of technology in the last 20 years, that we address in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of BEK this year.

See the digital presentation of the installation here. Hanan Benammar has been invited by BEK to develop a new work that takes as its departure the theme of surveillance and the formidable development of technology in the last 20 years, that we address in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of BEK this year.

Public Waiters (2017)Jonas ErslandHD Video, 03:44 min. As food delivery services like Deliveroo and Foodora grow, spontaneous meeting points are being formed in cities: places where the deliverers come together to wait for new orders. These urban waiting spots could be considered a physical manifestation of the gig economy.        Using a colour tracking camera that detects the worker’s uniforms,…

Zonen (2005)Pia Rönicke 16mm lm/DVD, 22:34 min. Through an indistinguishable landscape with no buildings and filled with roads that lead to nowhere, three architects wander around talking about ecology, social sustainability and architecture in urban planning. It is never really clear if the landscape they are walking through is about to be built, or a landscape of their imaginations, on which…

Environment Built for Absence (an unofficial/artificial sequel to J.G. Ballard’s “High Rise”) (2018)Tivon RiceHD video, computer-generated text, 17:45 min. In our post-digital lives, how often are experiences of urban landscapes mediated through technology? As we move through a city for the first time, the impressions are already joined by pre-existing impressions from Google Maps and cultural images of other cities,…

Machine Space (2018)Stephen ConnollyHD video, 24:20 min. Machine Space is an essay film exploring the city as a machine; a place of movement and circulation. It is a visualization of the ideas of Henri Lefebvre, philosopher of space and urban life. It uses performative techniques, in movement around the city by automobile; and the playing of a game of primitive…