Research Networking Day
CTM Festival 2025
Talk Panel
Research Networking Day 2024 © Eunice Maurice
The Research Networking Day is an exchange platform for graduate or postgraduate students – as well as independent artists conducting self-guided research – traversing the fields of music, sound, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines.
RND 2025 will assemble nine students, scholars, and artists/researchers from a variety of fields of study and approaches who will present research addressing one of several themes reflected within three different labs at CTM 2025: affection as explored in the CTM 2025 Radio Lab, engaging with traditional sound forms and ideas as per the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab, and playing with anarchic qualities of AI as explored in the Wilding AI lab.
Cast
Speakers
Lucy Havelock
Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi
Olia Sosnovskaya
Dragoș Rusu
Nilufer Musaeva
Sri Rama Murthy
jiawen uffline
Yann Martins
Matwe Kascak
Hosts
Anita Jóri
Stas Shärifulla
Jovana Maksić
Miriam Akkermann
Matthias Pasdzierny
Biographien
Branching into projects with both local and international artists, Lénok’s collaborations span performance, choreography, and participatory experiences, pulling in audiences not just as spectators, but as part of the unfolding narrative. At the root of everything she does is an unquenchable curiosity about the relationship between sound and the body—how the two can intertwine to evoke new sensations, perceptions, and stories.
Interdisciplinary light and sound artist Veslemøy Holseter crafts immersive, cathedral-like soundscapes that blend harsh noise with driving beats and distorted vox. Her work explores socio-political themes as well as personal reflections on identity, gender, and sexuality.
Synthtati draws deeply from the sublime and ephemeral qualities of natural landscapes, distilling these influences into immersive creations across myriad artistic forms and seamlessly integrating her visual artistry with an experimental approach to sound.
Lucy Railton is a British cellist, composer, cross-disciplinary collaborator and curator whose practice reflects a deeply innovative and restless approach to the cello and artistic self-expression. Over the past two decades, Railton has been at the forefront of contemporary and experimental music, electronic composition, improvisation and popular music performance.
Rebecca Salvadori is a London based, Italian multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker enamored with the converging spot of performance, the moving image, and live filming. Her works act as constellations of highly personal and wilfully elusive heterogeneous elements: multifaceted portraits of moments, people and environments that can be approached from different angles as they move in between personal and transpersonal scales.
Charlie Hope is a visual artist using light, space, video and coding to build sensorial images across performance, installation and video. Creating multi textured environments often working collaboratively in a range of contexts from galleries, clubs, theatre and film.
Programme
Speakers:
Lucy Havelock (Goldsmiths University London, UK)
Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi (Royal Holloway University London, UK)
Olia Sosnovskaya (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT)
Dragoș Rusu (University of Bucharest, RO)
Nilufer Musaeva (Hochschule für Künste Bremen, DE)
Sri Rama Murthy (independent artist Hyderabad, IN)
jiawen uffline (Hochschule für Künste Bremen/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)
Yann Martins (HGK Critical Media Lab Basel, CH)
Matwe Kascak (Masaryk University Brno, CZ)
Hosts:
Anita Jóri (CTM Festival and Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Stas Shärifulla (Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW)
Jovana Maksić (Trust)
Miriam Akkermann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Matthias Pasdzierny (UdK Berlin University of the Arts)
CTM 2025 will visit Radialsystem over seven consecutive days from 27 January to 2 February, uniting music experimentation and performances with a 5-day discourse programme and an artistic lab.
This festival edition will run without an overarching theme, instead exploring a series of new and ongoing thematic strands. One of several points of focus will be on how traditional art forms and aesthetics can be reinterpreted within modern sound and performance, outside of (self-)exoticisation and the uneven power dynamics created by mass-cultural and other stereotypes.
→ To the complete programme of CTM Festival 2025 at Radialsystem
Credits
This RND edition takes place in collaboration with the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Freie Universität Berlin, and the Berlin-based network and project space Trust.
The CTM 2025 Festival programme at Radialsystem is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Goethe-Institut, Federal Foreign Office, SHAPE+ and tekhné programs of the European Union, Pro Helvetia, the Embassy of the Netherlands, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Media partners: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Refuge Worldwide, The Wire, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
The Research Networking Day is an exchange platform for graduate or postgraduate students – as well as independent artists conducting self-guided research – traversing the fields of music, sound, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines.
RND 2025 will assemble nine students, scholars, and artists/researchers from a variety of fields of study and approaches who will present research addressing one of several themes reflected within three different labs at CTM 2025: affection as explored in the CTM 2025 Radio Lab, engaging with traditional sound forms and ideas as per the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab, and playing with anarchic qualities of AI as explored in the Wilding AI lab.
Cast
Speakers
Lucy Havelock
Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi
Olia Sosnovskaya
Dragoș Rusu
Nilufer Musaeva
Sri Rama Murthy
jiawen uffline
Yann Martins
Matwe Kascak
Hosts
Anita Jóri
Stas Shärifulla
Jovana Maksić
Miriam Akkermann
Matthias Pasdzierny
Biographies
Branching into projects with both local and international artists, Lénok’s collaborations span performance, choreography, and participatory experiences, pulling in audiences not just as spectators, but as part of the unfolding narrative. At the root of everything she does is an unquenchable curiosity about the relationship between sound and the body—how the two can intertwine to evoke new sensations, perceptions, and stories.
Interdisciplinary light and sound artist Veslemøy Holseter crafts immersive, cathedral-like soundscapes that blend harsh noise with driving beats and distorted vox. Her work explores socio-political themes as well as personal reflections on identity, gender, and sexuality.
Synthtati draws deeply from the sublime and ephemeral qualities of natural landscapes, distilling these influences into immersive creations across myriad artistic forms and seamlessly integrating her visual artistry with an experimental approach to sound.
Lucy Railton is a British cellist, composer, cross-disciplinary collaborator and curator whose practice reflects a deeply innovative and restless approach to the cello and artistic self-expression. Over the past two decades, Railton has been at the forefront of contemporary and experimental music, electronic composition, improvisation and popular music performance.
Rebecca Salvadori is a London based, Italian multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker enamored with the converging spot of performance, the moving image, and live filming. Her works act as constellations of highly personal and wilfully elusive heterogeneous elements: multifaceted portraits of moments, people and environments that can be approached from different angles as they move in between personal and transpersonal scales.
Charlie Hope is a visual artist using light, space, video and coding to build sensorial images across performance, installation and video. Creating multi textured environments often working collaboratively in a range of contexts from galleries, clubs, theatre and film.
