Aldea - Center for Contemporary art, Design and Technology

29/05/2026

Metal CNC wrapped up last weekend at Aldea. Thanks to everyone who joined. On Sunday, Graeme Naismith led a small group through a day on Aldea's Tormach 1100 MX, covering workholding, toolpath selection for steel and aluminium, and the specifics of cutting metal on a stiff machine.

20/05/2026

CNC-101 wrapped up last weekend at Aldea. Thanks to everyone who joined. Over two days, Arne led a small group of artists and designers through Aldea's ShopBot CNC, covering machine operation, tooling, materials, and 3D modelling in Fusion 360, finishing by milling something each participant had modelled themselves.

20/05/2026

Metal CNC, a one-day workshop led by Graeme Naismith on Aldea's Tormach 1100 MX. Sunday 24 May, 10:00–16:00. Free.

The day covers workholding and fixturing for metal stock, choosing endmills and toolpaths for steel and aluminium, dialling in feeds and speeds, and the rhythm of probing and tool offsets. The workshop assumes solid CNC fundamentals, and builds on that experience with a stiffer machine, coolant, and the consequences metal brings.

Aldea, C. Sundts gate 55, Bergen

12/05/2026

Aldea presents The Ecology of Forking Paths,
a new solo exhibition by Jonatan T. Wejnold.
Opening: Friday 22 May, 18:00 - 21:00
Exhibition: 22 May – 21 June / Thursday – Sunday, 12:00–16:00
Aldea, C. Sundts gate 55, 5004 Bergen

The Ecology of Forking Paths is a speculative documentary and sculptural installation reconstructing landscapes that became too pristine to sustain themselves, environments that collapsed under the weight of their own perfection, in a logic that is at once ecological and informational. The title draws from Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths and its later entanglement with the many-worlds interpretation, holding the work's branching, non-sequential structure as a given.

Its central figure, the Bird, is modelled on the Erosion Bird, an AI cryptid that emerged from the residue of generative image models, appearing across iterations without ever being prompted. In the film, the Bird arrives in each environment shortly before its dissolution: a vessel for model collapse, appearing when generative systems begin to exceed the logics that produced them.

The work is presented as the third volume of observational notes attributed to a chronicler of systems in decline. The entries are partial, asynchronous, and refuse to add up. What the records gesture toward is a larger system of which only fragments remain accessible - and toward an account that has already been incomplete for some time.

Jonatan T. Wejnold is a Danish artist, composer, and educator based in Bergen. Working across CGI, moving image, sound, and installation, his practice uses worldbuilding and fictioning to explore computational mythologies, synthetic ecologies, and speculative futures shaped by technological systems. His work has been presented internationally, including at Tate Modern, Montez Press Radio, Kunsthal Aarhus, and The Truman Brewery.

08/05/2026

Plastic Practice wrapped up last weekend at Aldea. Thanks to everyone who joined.

Over two days, artist led a small group through recycled plastic as an artistic medium. Plastic is one of the most present materials in our lives, historically embedded and environmentally charged, yet most people only ever encounter it in its finished form. The workshop was about working with it directly, through the machines, and on its own terms.

30/04/2026

Our Recycled Plastic workshop, Plastic Practice, is happening this weekend.

For this workshop, we've received plastic from .eco, a Stavanger-based non-profit that collects ocean plastic from beaches along the Norwegian coast and recirculates it as raw material.
The plastic they've given us was collected on April 15th at Kvernavika, on Selbjørn Island in Austevoll, as part of an ongoing European marine surveillance program under the OSPAR convention. On that day alone, the team picked up 1380 individual items, all identified and catalogued.

So the material coming into the workshop has a documented origin, a chain of hands behind it, and a reason to be turned into something.

Plastic Practice. 2–3 May.
Aldea, Bergen.
Free. Max 6 participants.
Sign up via the link in bio.

24/04/2026

English below:

Plastic Practice.
Utforsk resirkulert plast som kunstnerisk medium. En gratis todagers workshop for kunstnere og kreative fagfolk i Bergen. 2.-3. mai.

Plast er et av de mest allsidige materialene som noen gang er laget, men de fleste møter det bare i ferdig form. Plastic Practice gir kunstnere tilgang til maskinene og teknikkene som trengs for å forvandle et materiale som er kulturelt ladet, historisk forankret, og sjelden bearbeidet på egne premisser.

Vi inviterer en liten gruppe kunstnere til å utforske mulighetene i resirkulert plast, som material, som uttrykk, og som del av en kunstnerisk praksis. Du lærer å bruke maskinene, eksperimenterer med teknikker, og avslutter med noe du selv har laget.

Workshopen ledes av Jonas Andren, kunstner basert i Bergen, som arbeider med maleri og skulptur. I sin praksis utforsker han materialers plastisitet, både maling og plast, og deres evne til å skifte uttrykk og antyde ulike tilstander.

Maks 6 deltakere. Ingen forkunnskaper nødvendig. Gratis. 2.-3. mai, 9.00-15.00 Aldea, Bergen Påmelding via lenke i bio

Plastic Practice.
Exploring recycled plastic as an artistic medium. A free two-day workshop for artists and creative professionals in Bergen. 2-3 May.

Plastic is one of the most versatile materials ever made, yet most people only encounter it in its finished form. Plastic Practice gives artists access to the machines and techniques to transform a material that is culturally loaded, historically embedded, and rarely worked with on its own terms.

We're inviting a small group of artists to explore the possibilities of recycled plastic, as material, as expression, and as part of an artistic practice. You'll learn to use the machines, experiment with techniques, and finish with something you've made yourself.

The workshop is led by Jonas Andren, an artist based in Bergen working with painting and sculpture. In his practice he explores the plasticity of materials, both paint and plastic, and their ability to shift expression and suggest different states.

Max 6 participants. No prior experience necessary. Free. 2-3 May, 9.00-15.00 Aldea, Bergen Sign up via the link in bio

20/03/2026