Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

We have two available spots in a two-part workshop with Fredrik Salhus (photogrammetry) and Susan Schuppli (Material Witness). In the workshop, we will look at how visual traces in a landscape can be read, and how these traces can function as witnesses of ongoing processes like destruction of nature, climate changes, or political and economic transformations. Part 1: Photogrammetry with Fredrik…

For the exhibition Numinous Beginnings at Lydgalleriet, Anne Cecilie Lie has made a new version of the geolocative site-sensitive sound-walk Entangled Formations initially created for the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The new sound-walk, placed at Nordnes in Bergen, focuses on bird species that could call both places home. At a time when travel is difficult, Entangled Formation – Bergen Edition, offers…

in the period of 26.9 – 2.10, artist Toril Johannessen will be present with photo stations at Entrée and at various departments of Bergen Public Library. Here, she will tell you more about the art project and help you out if you want to contribute.

Submit a portrait of yourself here www.gruppebilde.bek.no, and become part of a group image with Bergen’s residents! Using technology that interprets photographs and creates new images, artist Toril Johannessen will create a comprehensive group image based on submitted portrait photos. The final image will become two large tapestries for Bergen City Hall where people and their elected representatives meet. Everyone who lives in Bergen is hereby invited to participate.

Jiska Huizing has been invited with her project Torn Tracks to make site specific works for each of the 6 exhibition places in Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, We are the places. The first piece, Torn Tracks #14 – Ålesund (3-7 October 2018), will be presented at the opening at Kunstmuseet KUBE in Ålesund Friday February 8th, where Huzing also will do a…

Anne Cecilie Lie’s master project is based upon a network of entangled habitats woven together in multiple sound walks through the campus of the University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås, in combination with a series of deadwood sculptures, placed in the surrounding landscape. The work is presented in collaboration with Vitenparken Campus Ås. BEK has been advising the development…

Stian Remvik at BEK has designed and programmed the app Words Images Thoughts Objects, a site specific audio guide made by Vilde Salhus Røed for the Fine Art and Design Library, the University of Bergen Library. From Tuesday October 10th at 12.00, the audio guide will be available on iPads for use in the library, as well as for download at App Store and Google Play.

This week Maria Øy Lojo has been working in BEK’s project space with her project A Temporary Meeting. She has processed recorded material from the metro in Berlin, amongst others, into what is going to be a site specific and interactive video installation. We are delighted that Maria will present her work in progress here at BEK. Her work can…