CLOT Magazine highlights & recommendations: FEBRUARY
CLOT Magazine’s monthly highlights, recommendations and things to do, plus a few things on our playlist. This month from the editors-in-chief
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…
Exhibition: ‘Membranes Out Of Order’, exploring cultural challenges posed by the interplay of biotech & ecology
Membranes Out Of Order focuses on the practice of artists Margherita Pevere, Theresa Schubert and Karolina Żyniewicz. Bioart uses living materials to transform and challenge…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Ian Cheng’s ‘Life after BOB, The Chalice Study’ at LAS
New York-based artist Ian Cheng has been creating live simulations since 2012. He explores the human mind and “an agent’s ability to deal with an…
‘Stretching Materialities, fostering the relations between discursive practices and material phenomena’ by Leoni Fischer
We are our environment [1]. This short phrase opens up the full dimension of the multi-layered tensions between humans and the material environment, to which…
‘Remembering Voice in the Mirror 5 years on’ by Juliette Wallace
Voice in the Mirror was an exhibition and a unique experiment never before performed, and never repeated since. Now, 5 at years since its staging…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
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…
Events: Vospiel transmediale 2022
Vorspiel, the parallel citywide program of events before and during transmediale and CTM festivals in Berlin is celebrating its 11th anniversary, a celebration of the…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
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….
Computing Art, CTM/transmediale, News
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…
‘A night aboard the Sun Machine’ by Leoni Fischer
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down! So reads the prophetic call filling my DM’s in a sudden gush. Over the last months, few messages spread…
Exhibition: ‘Legacy’ by Nancy Baker Cahill in Tempelhofer Feld Berlin
synthesis gallery presents Legacy by new media artist Nancy Baker Cahill. Legacy is synthesis’ first public art show opening on November 4, 2021, in Tempelhofer…
Exhibition: ‘The Sun Machine Is Coming Down’ at ICC Berlin
To mark their 70th anniversary, and from 7–17 of October, the Berliner Festspiele are opening the International Congress Centre (ICC) in Berlin, which has been…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Swamp Song of Berl-Berl’ by Piotr Bockowski
An obsolete soviet power plant in East Berlin has become a multimedia vehicle to the city’s origin this summer. Infamous for its techno/fetish club nights,…
Event: ‘Metabolic Rift’ by Berlin Atonal at Kraftwerk
Berlin Atonal presents Metabolic Rift: an (un)guided exhibition tour through the entire Kraftwerk building from September 25 to October 10 2021. The unique exhibition operates…
Festival: ‘The New Infinity’ at Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin
The fourth edition of The New Infinity transforms Berlin’s Zeiss-Großplanetarium (for the second time) into an immersive experience of contemporary art in the context of Berlin…
Exhibition: Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s ‘Berl-Berl’ at Halle am Berghain Berlin
Berl-Berl is a live and virtual experience. From 10 July to 26 September, visitors will experience a journey through a virtual swamp that covers Berlin’s…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
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…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
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….
Insight: Inside flora&faunavisions’ Magenta Moon Campus
Communicating engagingly is key no matter the medium. With over 20 years of delivering design experiences, the studio flora&faunavisions (FFV) triggers memories and emotions through…