Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Notam and BEK will arrange a series of workshops intended for advanced users, from 2017 to 2019. The workshops will be technical in nature, and the participants are therefore required to possess basic skills in programming, especially in Max, and signal processing. The workshops will be held in English, and will be arranged alternately in Oslo and Bergen. There is…

BandOrg and BEK invite you to an innovative pedal workshop where you will build FORM, an outstanding pedal developed and manufactured exclusively for BandOrg. BandOrg has built many pedals and tested even more pedals from well known and unknown manufacturers in recent years. After playing the beta version of FORM on various instruments, they tell us that this pedal glitches,…

BEK is proud to offer a beginner course in Ableton Live. The course will be led by Vegard Bolstad, and last for five weeks, 6 course days in total. You can choose between taking the day-course (hours 11-15), or the evening-course (17-21 hours).The course will focus on the participants’ own ambitions and development, and will lead to a concrete work…

BEK hosts a developer workshop that focus on authoring of interactive media scenarios. The workshop gathers artists and developers associated with Studio de création et de recherche en informatique et musique électroacoustique – SCRIME at Université de Bordeaux, Verdensteatret and BEK for an intensive learning and development session. i-score is a free and open-source intermedia sequencer used in art and music…

On June 15-16th we are organizing a kickstart workshop in the 3d modelling software Sketchup at BEK. Sketchup is a free 3d modeling software that can be used to draw up spaces for placement of installations and equipment, and it has a wide range of drawing applications. It is specifically very useful for sketching out gallery-, theatre- and concert spaces…

FROM MACRO TO MICRO AND BACK the physics and metaphysics of_______distance from BEK.no on Vimeo. On the 22nd – 28th of May BEK organized the LAB FROM MACRO TO MICRO AND BACK, the physics and metaphysics of_________________distance. LAB is a practice-oriented concept for researching artistic ideas and raw materials in collaboration. The project was made possible through the four-year EU-funded…

In and Out of Space: Critical Approaches to Spatiality in Sound and Image is a two day doctoral training workshop at the University of Aberdeen, and features keynotes, workshops and performances by Professor Paul Koonce (University of Florida), Trond Lossius (BEK) and Johannes Deutsch.

Due to health issues this workshop unfortunately is postponed.

“ ‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ ˮ is a workshop/training resulting in a 14 hour performance, which itself is a coalescence and practical demonstration of the techniques and strategies developed during the preceding days.

This workshop and performance will show you what you know, and what you don’t know that you know!

During the weekend of December 3-4th, BEK invited artists working with video to share and discuss practices. The aim of the seminar and workshop was to broaden the understanding of the video medium’s possibilities today, through a practical and theoretical exploration of technology, process and work.

This weekend BEK hosts a workshop where you can build your own unique DIY digital effect pedal based on the Raspberry PI computer and Csound.

On that occasion Utmark presents a concert, where you can experience how COSMO Collective use DIY electronics and custom software written in Csound!