Open Calls

Call for Presentations

Research Networking Day 2027

This call is aimed at graduate or postgraduate students – as well as independent artists conducting self-guided research – traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. Apply by 25 October.

Open call by transmediale & CTM

Vorspiel 2027

Vorspiel is aimed at Berlin-based independent project spaces, platforms, initiatives, curators, and artists that wish to propose an event or activity to run withing the period 15 - 31 January 2027, in resonance with transmediale and CTM dates. Apply by 6 November 2026.

Open Call – Coming Soon

CTM Volunteers 2027

Our annual call seeking volunteers interested in supporting various areas of CTM 2027 festival operations. The call will be published in late Autumn.

Call closed

In Listening 2027

After more than a decade of collaboration with Germany’s public radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Austria’s ORF public radio, the CTM Radio Lab will shift into a new format titled »In Listening.« This call aims to zero-in on sound-focused experiences, where active listening – as a form of individual or relational process – should inform the proposals. The call is open to artists worldwide and should engage with the CTM 2027 theme, »Process…ing«. The call is now closed - thanks to all that applied!

Artistic Lab – call closed

Resynthesising the Traditional 2027

The next Berlin edition of the Resynthesising the Traditional lab is titled At the Extreme and will take place 25–31 January 2027. The lab takes on a specific subfocus on the intersections and tensions between the traditional and the extreme, with hosts Karina Utomo and Luigi Monteanni. The call is now closed.

Artistic Lab - call closed

Spatial Audio Experimentaton Lab

This open call seeks artists and researchers interested in taking part in several days of practical experimentation and collective research during CTM 2027. From 21 –24 January lab participants will look at the ways space can become an active element of musical composition. The call is now closed.