CTM/transmediale
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
Leaving the bubble that is realism, I KNOW – On The Aesthetic Of Truth invites audiences into the domain of what synthesis gallery founder, director,
CTM 2023: The day after, opening the portals of perception
Sunday evening, sitting in an old-school chair of the Akademie der Künste’s auditorium, I am trying to focus on a collaborative performance by Jennifer Walshe
CTM 2023 Highlights: »Portals« & the worlds they give access to
After two years of lockdown, CTM Festival is finally returning to its usual format, simultaneously unfolding a diverse range of IRL activities across Berlin from
Pandemic tactics for a global media festival – transmediale 2021-22
As hygiene obsessed restrictions paralysed German cultural institutions two years ago, transmediale curators decided to deconstruct the mass-congestion format of their global festival. Animated by
Insight: The disappearance of Tianzhuo Chen – transmediale 2022
All hope abandon ye who enter here is written over the gate of Dante’s Inferno and according to Karl Marx, the same words are repeated
Festival: CTM 2022 »Contact«, experimenting with hybrids environments
Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it
Symposium: ‘This Is Not Anarchy, This Is Chaos’, for refusal transmediale 2021–22
As part of transmediale’s 2021–22 festival edition for refusal, unfolded over the course of a year, a symposium will be taking place on 28-29 January 2022.
‘NFTs, post-internet art, and why Constant Dullaart buys fake social media followers’ by Simon Coates
A pandemic while we’re in a global culture and information war wasn’t the scenario I was hoping for. It’s been a clear signal showing problematic
Exhibition: ‘abandon all hope ye who enter here’, for refusal transmediale 2021–22
transmediale recently announced the details of their exhibition, concluding the year-long festival. abandon all hope ye who enter here will take place from 26 January to
PATRICIA DOMINGUEZ, unearthing plant knowledge
Patricia Dominguez is an artist, educator and activist from Chile whose work merges socio-political and economic matters with mysticism and ancient botanical knowledge. She is
Online platform: CTM Cyberia
CTM, one of Berlin’s most influential and experimental festivals, has gone virtual. They rose to the challenge of not being able to gather in-person this
Festival: CTM 2021 »Transformation«, experimenting with new digital formats
In response to the ongoing pandemics, CTM 2021 »Transformation« aims to respond to some of the challenges facing arts and culture in these exceptional times.
Online event: ‘Marathon on the day of the Revolution’ by Morphine x Beirut
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 Ballroom Blitz and Frequent Defect, and Unsound
Festival: transmediale 2020, networks, virtual worlds and avatars
transmediale Festival comes back to Berlin another year with a programme of conversations, screenings, performances and artistic interventions. With a theme titled End to End
Open Call: CTM Festival 2020
From January 24th to February 2nd of next year, Berlin will see the 2020 instalment of the CTM festival, an endeavour that explores experimental music