Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

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…

In this Verktøykassen we will be looking into video synchronization; when two or more videos are playing synchronously on separate screens or projectors. Course leader Stian Remvik will present various methods with different software and hardware, and look closer at the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods.

In the period of March 18th – April 5th, Anne Marthe Dyvi will be in BEK’s video studio where she will mainly work on the video This Thing about Time (work title). The project will be shown at Galleri Langegården in 2020, in dialogue with Trudi Jaeger’s artistic practice and Langegården as a historical place. This Thing about Time has the ambition to…

Åse Løvgren, Stine Gonsholt and Alexander Rishaug will be working at BEK March 11th – 16th. They will add sound to their video project, and do sound- and image editing. Also, they will record voice over.

Get an introduction to the Video Studio at BEK! Our experienced advisor in art and technology Marieke Verbiesen will guide you.

Bjørg Taranger’s project Det hvite toget (The White Train) is a video installation projected onto the large windows in Kunstgarasjen. BEK has been consultant during the development of the project, Lars Ove Toft has set up the sound and the media players in the exhibition space, and Stian Remvik has mapped the videos onto the many window surfaces by using MadMapper.

During the next couple of weeks Terese Stenhjem will be developing her work at BEK. She will work in the project space with video editing, test out green screen technology, and try to integrate her work in a physical space. She aims to find technical solutions for mounting and/or project video work, and explore whether it is possible to make…

The exhibition The Poacher’s Dream by Eleanor Clare og Dillan Marsh consist of multiple channels of sound and video – spoken and sung narratives that unfold as one moves through the space. BEK has been advising the duo while they were developing the project, and has contributed with technical equipment for the production of the work and for the exhibition at Visningsrommet USF.

During the spring time, Esayas Henok has been editing three film and video projects in BEK’s video studio. Ekaka, a film series for and with children, will be screened at Bergen International Culture Centre on May 10th.