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.…

“A Musical Love Letter” is a combined music and video work where a letter is being created; both musically performed by oboe, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, and as a video where the letter slowly emerges as a picture. The music closely follows the gestures of the fountain pen as it moves on the paper. At BEK, Rebecka Ahvenniemi will pre-film video,…

In her new project for Volt, which will take the form as a performance and an exhibition, Nora Joung uses legal documents from 1982 as a starting point to examine a court ruling which determined that it’s not illegal for politicians to break promises made to their voters. At BEK Joung will record and mix voiceover for a video work,…

In their ongoing research “Mapping Smart Futures (MSF)”, KairUs are interested in exploring methods which brings forth new forms of artistic research, especially in context of digitalization and everyday use of technology in urban environments. At BEK they will work on a multi-channel video installation based on recorded material from smart city visits, marketing material published by corporations and smart…

The video The Valley is shown during this year’s Greenlightdistrict – the interdisciplinary art festival in Skien that sheds light on issues related to nature, industry, climate and the environment. In The Valley, the small village of Dale in Western Norway is used as a prism to look at global changes related to production and economy. The video was created…

Cristina Lucas 3-channel six-plus hour long video installation “Unending Lightning” (2015-) is an open-ended work in progress, comprised of global cartography of aerial warfare that shows all aerial bombings over civilians since its implementation. The project is composed around historical investigation that is endless, and grievously ongoing due to current events. For the exhibition at Kunsthall 3,14, Stian Remvik at…

Imaginalia revisited s a poetic and musical work where our relationship to nature lies at the core, and where it is generated new connections and liminal experiences between image and sound – between the visible and the invisible. Espen Sommer Eide has been working with Imaginalia revisited at BEK, and the exhibition will be opening at Lydgalleriet Friday August 16th…

What would you take with you in a “survival kit” for the age of technology? How can we imagine and act for the future? How can we act in everyday life, here and now? After a week’s LAB at BEK in June 2019, we are proud to give you our two suggestions for a survival kit: A video book co-created…

During the week of June 10 – 16th, it is time for another Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We will use last year’s seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology as our point of departure, and have invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result will be released in a…

By invitation from Bergen Domkor and BEK, the young Bergen-based artist Andrea Urstad Toft has made two new video works that will be projected directly on the brick walls of Bergen domkirke during the choir’s Bergen International Festival concert on May 29th. After a 3-week work residency in BEK’s video studio, the process manifests in sensitive pictures and animations that…