We will be back from Summer holidays at BEK from August 5th, and will start the season off with Reality-based Audio Workshop at Struer Tracks, book presentation of “Elektrisk lyd i Norge” (“Electric Sound in Norway”) and concert, and a concert with Loud Matter at Østre.
This workshop will demonstrate how performed spatialisation of stereo sources, over a moderately sized loudspeaker array, can create a dynamic, immediate, versatile and immersive 3-D sound experience, enhancing the music for a concert audience. The evening concert is open for the audience, and will feature a showcase of works from Beatriz Ferreyra, Natasha Barrett, as well as extracts from the…
Anne Marthe Dyvi, Artistic Developer at BEK, is participating in Norwegian Arts Council’s conference Kultur over grenser (Culture Across Borders) Thursday January 24th. The conference is a meeting place for everyone who wants to learn more about international cultural collaborations, and who wants to develop a project and/or meet potential partners.
Thorolf Thuestad is a well-known and dear sound-maestro in the cultural field of Bergen. He will present his current research project at KMD, and show and share knowledge about robots, automation and the machines themselves. He will not come alone.
In this presentation, Kjersti Sundland will be sharing marginal and occluded concepts on how human made electromagnetic radiation and the earth’s electromagnetic radiation seem to interweave and coagulate, and to resurface as fissures, or specters in our perception.
A platform is created to give space to an experiment or game with algae, images and words. This demands a decision on what is inside and what is outside a set boundary or frame.
Siri Austeen and Espen Sommer Eide have in their practices in different ways related to sound recording or “field recording” – a term that may mistakenly give the impression that the sound must be retrieved in exotic and dangerous places. BEK has invited them to a conversation where they present different projects they have participated in and discuss examples of…
BEK is participating at this year’s B-open with the presentation of various projects in the field of art and technology. B-open is an art festival with the main focus on open artist studios, with several other activities associated with the festival, open to anyone with free access. Bergen Center for Electronic Arts is an interdisciplinary resource and competence center for…
Friday November 24th, the artist Sidsel Christensen will visit BEK and hold an artist presentation titled Usynlige stemmer og korporlige maskiner (Invisible voices and corporal machines). Lunch will be served at 14.00, and Sidsel will start her presentation after. Welcome! Om presentasjonen skriver Sidsel: “Gjennom det kunstneriske virket bruker jeg videoinstallasjoner og live performance som undersøkelsesramme. Jeg er opptatt av…
On Friday 26th May 3pm, all are welcome to our open day, where we will present the results of a week’s experimentation with drone technology, including a discussion on art and technology. There will be light refreshments.