CTM
Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts Berlin

Jan Rohlf is a founding member of CTM - Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts (formerly known as club transmediale) and the affiliated DISK - Initiative Bild & Ton.

CTM is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music and sound creation, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities and social practises that develop within and connect to those audio cultures. Since 1999 it takes place concurrently and cooperatively with the transmediale - international festival for art and digital culture, Berlin.

CTM reflects on the agency of contemporary sound creation within the cultural fabric of society and its technological and social transformations. It explores the intersections of contemporary music and audio art with other artistic forms and cultural fields. A special emphasis is put on the creative use of new technologies, the interplay of sound with other media formats, the formation of social networks, the development of structures for informational and economic self-determination, and the advancement of a positive form of globalization.

CTM puts the focus on direct experience, risk-taking and personal interaction. Thereby the festival emphasizes the situational potential of live performance, process-oriented projects, collaboration and interdisciplinarity. It encourages exchange between cultural niches, critical art practise, cultural industry and academic research.

Together, the two festivals CTM and transmediale comprise one of the most comprehensive and relevant occasions in the world for reflection on digital culture and, moreover, one with a more comprehensive scope than any usual festival remit. The two parallel festivals attract a broad, diverse public yet at the same time offer artists, producers, agents and curators a lively platform for informed, thoughtful debate and opportunities to network across the globe. In doing so, they fathom and illuminate the minutely diversified grass-roots level of music and media arts production. Both festivals do much more than simply present new trends and developments however. In their role as partners to the artists, as participants in on-going contemporary discourse, as active network facilitators, information resources, research bodies and disseminators of innovative work, they also make a vital contribution to the further development of critical, innovative music and media cultures.

During the 10 years of the festival's existence Jan Rohlf has conceived and collaborated on numerous curatorial projects, including the annual CTM festival itself, the hard and fast music festival Wasted, the series of experimental sound performances DISK Sessions and a large number of collaborations with other international festivals and organisations, such as Art Forum, Berlin; Pictoplasma, Berlin; Tesla, Berlin; Volksbuehne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; Garage Festival, Stralsund; Donaufestival, Krems; Htmlles Festival, Montréal; Klangraum and Kontraste Festival, Krems; Les Siestes Electroniques, Toulouse; Musikprotokoll, Graz; MUTEK festival, Montréal; Netmage festival, Bologna; Nuits Sonores, Lyon; Progress festival, Ljubljana; rx:tx, Ljubljana; Sperm festival, Prague; Todaysart, The Hague; Unsound festival, Krakow; Ultrahang festival, Budapest; xFilm Festival, Sofia and others.

He is also a founding member of the international festival network ICAS/ECAS.

For a comprehensive listing of all projects done under the CTM umbrella, please visit the festival's website.