Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Stian Ramvik at BEK is helping Sabine Popp with synchronization of video material for the upcoming exhibition Relay (how to use a ship to press the button of a camera) which opens at Visningsrommet USF on December 3. The video material forms the framework for a performance, and Popp need to easily control the synchronized videos as part of this.…

For the Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, Jiska Huizing was invited with the project Torn Tracks to create site-specific sound works for all the six places the exhibition has visited. BEK/Espen Sommer Eide has helped develop Torn Tracks, which is a digital interactive platform with different ways to search and organize the collection of tracks and sounds that form the basis of the…

Tapage, aka Tijs Ham, will perform his new audiovisual setup Ecdysis at Landmark on the 5th of May. He has been working on this project during the period when the MOD/ALL workshops was happening at BEK.

Freja Bäckman’s I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer is a concert in the forms of a performance and an installation, that will take place at District Berlin April 30th. Bäckman was artist in residency at USF Verftet earlier this year, and was working on this project during her stay. BEK has been supporting the development of…

Post Capitalistic Auction is an auction and a performance, where new rules and new currencies are introduced. All audiences are welcome to participate in the bidding, or they can simply watch the drama unfold. Bids are made through the brand new bidding software, programmed and designed by Stian Remvik and Stian Sørensen at BEK.

On the 24th of March, Jiska Huizing will perform a couple of pieces from the Torn Tracks project at BEK, as part of ToBeContinued. ToBeContinued encompasses a 24h long sound marathon, during which artists and musicians from many different parts of the world will each play a half hour set that will be broadcasted through the project’s website. The event is coordinated…

At the international theatre festival METEOR 2017 you can see results from the research- and collaborative project Blind Spot, where BEK is one of the collaborators. Blind Spot – Staring Down the Void The performance Blind Spot – Staring Down the Void is playfully presented by a group of artists spanning several genres, who share an interest in our sense of…

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…

ord, word, Wort & land, land, Land. The words are (almost) identical. ord/word/Wort & land/land/Land is part concert, part performing arts. Through music, text, and video Eva Pfitzenmaier recounts her own experiences and observations from two societies, two countries, and three languages. How are they connected and how do they differ from each other? The performance is a co-production between…

During Borealis, Signe Lidén and Espen Sommer Eide present a new work utilizing a series of mobile meteorological music instruments and performative microphones. Using Fjell festning as a place, they investigate how sound is shaped by, and resonates in various environments.

The work is developed at BEK, and commissioned by Sonic Acts and Dark Ecology.