CTM/transmediale
VIVIENNE GRIFFIN, on deconstructing traditional approaches to multimedia art
Interview by Christopher Michael Speaking on their extensive multimedia practice, Vivienne Griffin states anti-disciplinary approaches are urgent, especially when it comes to global problems. In
JENNIFER WALSHE & JON LEIDECKER, thoughts on collaboration
Interview by Estela Oliva Composer and performer Jennifer Walshe has been coined by the Irish Times as the ‘most original compositional voice to emerge from
MERCHE BLASCO, establishing a non-hierarchical relationship with technology
Interview by Olya Karlovich It all started with improvisation. When 20-year-old Merche Blasco was looking for a hobby to switch off from studies in communication
Insight: ‘I KNOW – On The Aesthetic Of Truth’, knowability in a post-truth world
Text by Lyndsey Walsh Leaving the bubble that is realism, I KNOW – On The Aesthetic Of Truth invites audiences into the domain of what
CTM 2023: The Day After, opening the portals of perception
Text by Olya Karlovich Sunday evening, sitting in an old-school chair of the Akademie der Künste’s auditorium, I am trying to focus on a collaborative
CTM 2023 Highlights: »Portals« & the worlds they give access to
Text by Olya Karlovich After two years of lockdown, CTM Festival is finally returning to its usual format, simultaneously unfolding a diverse range of IRL
Pandemic tactics for a global media festival – transmediale 2021-22
Text by Piotr Bockowski As hygiene obsessed restrictions paralysed German cultural institutions two years ago, transmediale curators decided to deconstruct the mass-congestion format of their
Insight: The disappearance of Tianzhuo Chen – transmediale 2022
Text by Piotr Bockowski All hope abandon ye who enter here is written over the gate of Dante’s Inferno, and according to Karl Marx, the
Festival: CTM 2022 »Contact«, experimenting with hybrids environments
Text by CLOT Magazine Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond
Symposium: ‘This Is Not Anarchy, This Is Chaos’, for refusal transmediale 2021–22
Text by CLOT Magazine As part of transmediale’s 2021–22 festival edition for refusal, which unfolded over the course of a year, a symposium will be taking
NFTs, post-internet art & why Constant Dullaart buys fake social media followers
Text by Simon Coates A pandemic while we’re in a global culture and information war wasn’t the scenario I was hoping for. Instead, it’s been
Exhibition: ‘abandon all hope ye who enter here’, for refusal transmediale 2021–22
Text by CLOT Magazine transmediale recently announced the details of their exhibition, concluding the year-long festival. abandon all hope ye who enter here will take place
PATRICIA DOMINGUEZ, unearthing plant knowledge
Interview by Laura Cabiscol Patricia Dominguez is an artist, educator and activist from Chile whose work merges socio-political and economic matters with mysticism and ancient
Online platform: CTM Cyberia, virtual multiplayer immersive environment
Text by CLOT Magazine CTM, one of Berlin’s most influential and experimental festivals, has gone virtual. They rose to the challenge of being unable to
Festival: CTM 2021 »Transformation«, experimenting with new digital formats
Text by CLOT Magazine In response to the ongoing pandemics, CTM 2021 »Transformation« aims to address some of the challenges facing arts and culture in
Online event: ‘Marathon on the day of the Revolution’ by Morphine x Beirut
Text by CLOT Magazine In a show of support to Lebanon’s music scene, Morphine and CTM Festival, in collaboration with Beirut artist initiatives Irtijal Festival, Ruptured, Tunefork Studios, The