On 25 August in Beijing, we're excited to co-present a double-opening NEU - China's first International Future Festival and Goethe-Institut China's "A Better Version of 人" project which will explore technology's changing role in our lives. Joining rising artists Shao Yanpeng and visual collaborator Wang Meng, plus Han Han aka GOOOOOSE, will be Berlin-based Marco Donnarumma with his "Corpus Nil" project. Two years in the making, this work hybridises the languages of dance, sound art and body art into a tense choreographic interchange between a human performer and an autonomous machine. https://vimeo.com/152710490

For those that missed it, our sister festival, transmediale - festival for art and digital culture berlin, also published their dates and theme, "face value" this past month. Their general submission system also remains open, encouraging artists and practicioners to share ideas not only for the upcoming edition but also for transmediale's year-round initiatives. Marke your calendears for transmediale 2018: 31 January - 4 February at Haus der Kulturen der Welt! https://2018.transmediale.de

CTM 2017 hosted Sukandar Kartadinata and Liz Allbee - aka Ganzfeld - in a series of guerilla performances around diverse CTM venues. Ganzfeld hooked up their guitar and trumpet to a homemade transducer speaker setup, to activate the unique resonant surfaces of different makeshift performance spaces. They roamed CTM festival venues ranging from the Postbank mailboxes next to HAU Hebbel am Ufer, to the bus stop outside the Haus der Kulturen der Welt: https://vimeo.com/226221944 Thanks to Ana Amorós / Tenger Films and Ana Drucker for following them throughout the festival week! Ganzfeld were supported by the #ENCAC network, in which CTM partnered with LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, L.E.V. Festival, Humain trop humain CDN Montpellier, le lieu unique (officiel), Avatar Centre, Ars Electronica and Resonate

Coming up this Thursday is our Polymorphism 24 x Different Circles event at Berghain / Panorama Bar! It's curated together with Different Circles labelheads MUMDANCE and Logos, who will both DJ in support of their latest collaborative release, titled FFS. They've invited a few musical friends and peers operating on the grimmer and darker fringe of modern electronic music to join them for the night: Rian Treanor, The Death Of Rave's Conor Thomas and rising DJ/producer Anastasia Kristensen. Listen to FFS here: http://tinyurl.com/yaqppkd8 And RSVP for Thursday here: http://tinyurl.com/y77xmjrd

This overview by Berlin Art Link gives us a peek into the Immersion programme and Arrival of Time exhibition by Berliner Festspiele. Until end of July you can see a range of multisensory installations and works on the border of art and science by artists: Chris Salter + TeZ: Haptic Field (v2.0), Lundahl & Seitl: Unknown Cloud on Its Way to Berlin Lundahl & Seitl: Unknown Cloud on Its Way to Berlin, Mona el Gammal: Rhizomat VR, Rana X. Adhikari, William Basinski, Rainer Kohlberger and Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand & more. Info & Tickets: http://bit.ly/2q2DXwR.

"There's a few commercial companies that are using the same technologies that I use for cellF. The very disturbing part is that when you look at their websites, there's no mention of the word 'ethics', or of what it means to bio-engineer consciousness. The only thing they do is ask to for money from venture capitalists, because they can guarantee that in 4 years, they can bio engineer consciousness." This past spring, cellF, the world's first neural synthesizer, performed with artists Schneider TM and Stíne Janvin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The accompanying talk by cellF creator Guy Ben-Ary is now available for streaming, and gives a deeper account into cellF's creation as well as some of the ethical questions it attempts to conjure. https://soundcloud.com/ctm-festival/technospharenklange-3-talk-by-guy-ben-ary CLOT Magazine CDM GROOVE-Magazin Art Laboratory Berlin Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin

We’re very excited to announce the dates and theme for the next edition and to publish our yearly CTM Radio Lab Call for Works. The CTM 2018 theme will be TURMOIL. The festival will take place from 26 January to 4 February 2018 at various Berlin venues, some of them new and others veteran festival partners like Berghain / Panorama Bar, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Kunstquartier Bethanien. Read the full announcement on our website: http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2018/welcome/ CTM 2018 theme TURMOIL: http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2018/theme/ Radio Lab Call details and application form: http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2018/call-for-works/?no_cache=1 Since its early days, CTM Festival has featured music and art that acts as a mirror for social and political conditions. Our 2018 theme, Turmoil, builds on the insights of 2017’s Fear Anger Love, and continues its inquiry into the potential of sound and music to invigorate resilience and awareness at a time when we have begun normalising the ongoing barrage of political, social and environmental crises and the resulting unsettling feelings that resonate through our on- and offline lives. CTM 2018 explores the state of music and sound practice in the face of a confusing and critical present: What is the sound of turmoil? What are aesthetics of tumult? What to do with such intensities? Which other sonic and musical responses could we conceive of to counter the current overload of agitation, anxiety and animosity? This theme will also be explored by the CTM 2018 Radio Lab Call, now open for the fifth year in a row. The Radio Lab Call is an open invitation to submit ideas for the creative interface between radio art and live performance or installation art. Submissions deadline is 15 September 2017. The first artists and other participants appearing at CTM 2018 will be announced in early October, at which time we will also reveal the 19th edition’s visual identity and release a limited number of Early Bird Festival Passes. As in previous years, the CTM Festival will take place parallel to and in collaboration with the transmediale - festival for art and digital culture berlin, which has just released first information on its 2018 theme “Face Value”.

The CTM 2018 theme will be TURMOIL. The festival will take place from 26 January to 4 February 2018 at various Berlin venues. For the full announcement and for our CTM 2018 Radio Lab Call for Works go to: http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2018/welcome/

Get to know rising DJ Anastasia Kristensen ahead of her appearance at Polymorphism 24 x Different Circles at Berghain / Panorama Bar, with this nice collection of recent mixes. She's been delivering sets combining barreling breaks, blistering techno and buoyant electro in scintillating fashion at her Culture Box residency in Copenhagen as well as at clubs Europe-wide. https://soundcloud.com/anastasiakristensen/sets/mixes

"The Arrival of Time" exhibition within Berliner Festspiele's Immersion programme celebrates recent scientific advances that have shown us a more exotic concept of time as an outlandishly curvaceous, pliant, and irrepressibly animate component of the universe. Here are some photos from one of the exhibition's works, by artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand. It's on until end of the month! Full info here: http://tinyurl.com/tjufh6c

Outernational Days 2 starts today in Bucharest! The weekend will present genres of contemporary music specific to certain subcultures or peripheries from the cultural space that don’t necessarily identify with the occidental/western rules. CTM will be presenting a new piece by Rabih Beaini inspired by his 2016 "For the Red Right Hand" which opened CTM 2016. The new work, "Everything Visible is Empty" is performed together with Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin and Bogdana Dima and Diana Miron. http://the-attic.net/outernational/news/2049/ctm-festival-presents-everything-visible-is-empty-at-outernational-days-2.html

Sad to read that Pierre Henry who played CTM 2008 passed away. http://thequietus.com/articles/22780-pierre-henry-rip