Organization
Board
- Aashild Grana · chairman of the board
- Grethe Meisingset
- Hans Christian Gilje
- Lars Petter Hagen
Collaborating partners
BEK collaborates on a regular basis with a number of organizations working with contemporary arts in Bergen such as Avgarde, Bergen International Festival, Bergen kunsthall, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Bildende Kunstneres Forening Hordaland, Borealis, Galleri 3.14, Griegakademiet, Hordaland kunstsenter, Landmark, Lydgalleriet, Piksel and USF.
BEK contributes to the youth cultural educational program Signatur, initated by the Municipality of Bergen.
BEK is part of the Norwegian Production Network for Electronic Arts, alongside Atelier Nord and NOTAM in Oslo, TEKS in Trondheim and io-lab in Stavanger.
Development and research related to Jamoma and SpatDIF is an ongoing effort in collaboration with CIRMMT at McGill University in Montreal, Electrotap Inc. (US), fourMs lab at The University of Oslo (No), GMEA Centre National de Creation Musicale in Albi (Fr), GMEM Centre National de Création Musicale in Marseille (Fr) and others.
Trond Lossius is one of two national representatives in the European research project Cost Action IC0601 Sonic Interaction Design. The project is chaired by professor Davide Rocchesso from Universita IUAV di Venezia, and have participants from 17 countries. BEK is the only non-academic organization associated with the program.
The Europe Culture 2000 project At Home in Europe, carried out in 2007, was a collaboration with ISIS Arts in Newcastle, Interspace in Sofia and RIXC in Riga.
The BEK server provides numerous services to artists, projects and organization in Norway and abroad. A list of hosted domains and web sites can be found here.
Funding partners
BEK is funded by The Ministry of Cultural and Church Affairs, The Municipality of Bergen and Hordaland County Council.
Projects are realized wih support from Arts Council Norway, EU, Fond for utøvende kunstnere, Komponistenes vederlagsfond, The Municipality of Bergen, The Research Council of Norway, Vestnorsk filmsenter and others
Formalities
BEK, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, was founded in 2000 as a non-profit organization with org. no. 881 948 222.
Last updated 2010-08-27.