Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, BEK invites creative practitioners to the workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Led by multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell, with philosopher Robin Mackay, this workshop series aims to critically examine beliefs about creative practice — for example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well…

This week, eight participants are assembled on BEKs premises for part one of the workshop “Landscape as Material Witness”. In the inaugural part of the workshop, Fredrik Salhus gave an introduction to photogrammetry as a tool for artists. The participants have been presented with ways to use photogrammetry when mapping and investigating objects or smaller defined areas. As a technique,…

In this workshop, artist Roar Sletteland and acoustic engineer Paal Rasmussen will demonstrate the possibilities for using loudspeakers in works of art, and how to make your own custom-built speaker. -Dates: 27 and 30 September from 12–17-Location: BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, C. Sundts gate 55-Fee: NOK 500,–Sign-up to bek@bek.no by 13 September. Limited number of spots – first come, first served! Aesthetics,…

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…

Awne is an approach to art making where natural farming, agroforestry, buddhism, cosmocentric farming, biocultural systems, forest gardening and biomimicry meet sound and art. By looking at different ways of positioning yourself as nature (instead of in nature) you can take a different approach to your own practice. By exploring and applying Awne you can increase your awareness of different processes that occur around us, the complexity of these processes, the sustainability of your practice and your place as nature.

For this Verktøykassen (the Toolbox) we have invited the artist David A. Rios to teach us the basics of mechanical transmission of power. We will use simple electrical motors, gears, pulleys and other means of transmission to implement movement into your works.

In this second part of Vertkøykassen, we will look at several ways you can use face recognition. We will take one step further from the first part, where we learned to set up openFrameworks and the add-onxFaceTracker2 that does face recognition. It is recommended that you attend the first part or have experience with Xcode and programming.

In this Verktøykassen we will look into openFrameworks which is a creative tool consisting of C ++ libraries with open source code such as openGL (Graphic Language) and openCV (Computer Vision). openFrameworks is designed designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.

BEK follows up the success of the first Machine learning for sound-makers workshop, with Luke Fischbecq (ph.d USC), this time as an online week-long workshop. Old and new participants will investigate the latest AI technologies on working with art and machine learning. Main focus is still audio, but also visual projects will be investigated to broaden the scope of the…

Latent City presents artistic productions dealing with the city’s hidden stories. Seen through the lens of artistic observation, latent infrastructures and questions of digital presence and of power and democracy in our cities, meet in an exhibition that takes place over three weeks. The Latent City is the city that awaits, the one that is about to unfold, our common…