Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Maia Urstad and Lars Ove Toft will open the exhibition Etter alle solemerke at Kunsthuset Kabuso in Øystese on Saturday 8 February. But already on Wednesday, January 29, at 20.00 you can hear them introduce their project, which shows an interaction of sound and video inspired by close movements and slow changes that happen without us really being aware of…

We round off BEK’s Opening Week 2020 with concerts by Niklas Adam, John Brennan and Tolga Balci, before DJ Tolga Balci takes over! The concert night is free and open to everyone. The doors open at 19.00. We hope to see many of you there!

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.

An artist talk with John Brennan discussing his recent investigations into the relationship between the “sonic memory” of musical instruments and improvised performance. 

As part of Verktøykassen (the Toolbox), we invite artists to teach us things we cannot ourselves. Visual artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl will speak about how she uses 3D modeling as a tool and conceptual point of departure in her artistic practice and in her ongoing artistic research project at the Academy of Fine Arts, KMD/UiB. After the presentation, she will…

Zackery Denfeld and Cathrine Kramer from The Center for Genomic Gastronomy are working on topics that are particularly related to the cross over point between food and emerging technology. For BEK’s Opening Week they have created a custom talk.

In the former textile mill Salhus Tricotagefabrik there are heavy and large machines, but also tiny and fragile ones. Retro high-tech in cassette format with programming for automated knitting machines. Old technology meets new technology through a sonographic compositional work by Else Olsen S., as the sounds from the machines will be the orchestra and material in the work, which will be…

When BEK opened its newly renovated premises in 2019, we did so with a number of events during the opening weeks. We think this was so fun that we are happy to open 2020 with a new opening week! This year we will be inviting you again to a series of presentations, workshops and concerts January 20 – 28! All…

Arduino is a small circuit board that you can use to bring the physical world into the data world, and the data world into the physical world. For example, you can measure temperature, light, CO2, distance, movement or humidity, and connect buttons, switches or displays to control and display information, or motors to set something in motion. If you see…

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.