BEK Samples: Mona Hedayati, Fabian Lanzmaier, Ananda Serné, and Sean Minhui Tashi Chua

Name: BEK Samples: Mona Hedayati, Fabian Lanzmaier, Ananda Serné, and Sean Minhui Tashi Chua
Start: 2025-01-31T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-31T23:00:00+01:00
Location: BEK - Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst

Schedule

Fri Jan 31 2025 at 06:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

BEK - Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst | Bergen, HO

For Norwegian see www.bek.no
This event is free and open for all.
Presentations and performances in BEK’s project room with Mona Hedayati, Fabian Lanzmaier, Ananda Serné, and Sean Minhui Tashi Chua. Each artist, all of whom are connected to a recent or ongoing residency at BEK, offers insight into their processes and presents their work. Here, you will experience everything from short films comparing wind and whistling to biosensors revealing our reaction patterns and much more in between.
18:00 – Doors open
18:30 – Ananda Serné
19:00 – Sean Minhui Tashi Chua
19:30 – Break
20:00 – Mona Hedayati
21:00 – Fabian Lanzmaier
ANANDA SERNÈ
Ananda Serné (NL/NO) is a writer and visual artist based in Bergen. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts, and has been awarded several research and studio residencies, such as the Jan van Eyck Post-academic Institute in Maastricht, Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei, and at Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard. Set in a society struggling with sleeplessness, her debut novel “Nachtbloeiers” was published in the Netherlands in 2022.
SEAN MINHUI TASHI CHUA
Sean Minhui Tashi Chua is a multidisciplinary scientist and artist working across remote sensing and data science with a focus on Earth systems, polar regions, and sound. Currently, he works as a researcher at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, as well as being an independent consultant and an artist. Previously he was an assistant director in the Australian Antarctic Division Sea Ice team.
MONA HEDAYATI
Mona Hedayati is an artist and scholar currently on the brink of defending her dual PhD between Canada and Belgium in interdisciplinary humanities and artistic research. She has an MFA in digital media and a Master of Research in social-political art and design and has been working across computation art and sound design.
She implements interdisciplinary methods borrowed from interaction design, visual anthropology, and embodied computing to underline the importance of situated dimensions of new technologies and to underline her experience of exiled migration.
Hedayati has done a number of residencies including BEK in Spring 2024. Her work has been disseminated internationally at venues as diverse as Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (Darmstadt), Whitworth Gallery (Manchester), Kunsthal Extra City (Antwerp), Body Electric Retrospective (Toronto), NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, IMPAKT Center for Media Culture (Utrecht), Fylkingen New Music & Intermedia Center (Stockholm), Kasko Center for Art and Performance (Basel), Mesh Festival (Basel), and Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), among many others.
FABIAN LANZMAIER
Fabian Lanzmaier is a musician and sound artist based in Vienna/Austria. In his site specific and collaborative practice, he mixes sound and other media such as performance, sculptural elements, light, and video.
In his live performances and compositions he works with real-time audio synthesis utilizing digital/analog physical modeling techniques and feedback networks to explore aspects of texture and structure of sound as well as its presence within space through multichannel speaker setups. He is experimenting with perception and ideas of natural / artificial sounds, fluid and ambiguous environments. He follows an interest in the possibilities and surprises that emerge when working with systems and situations that involve chance and unpredictability.
He studied at the Institute for Electroacoustic Compostition in Vienna and is an active member of the collective velak (eventseries for experimental music and soundart). Recent projects and residencies include: Artist in Residency at Wave Farm – NY, composition commission through INA - grm - Paris, AV - Performance at Fridman Gallery - NYC, Artist in Residency at EMS – Stockholm, Artist in Residence at Maajaam - Estonia, Artist in Residence at USF – Bergen.
Accessibility
BEK’s space unfortunately is not wheelchair accessible. Please send us an email at [email protected] if you’re using a wheelchair, and we’ll do our best to facilitate your needs. Our space has all gender toilet facilities. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.