// Venues: .HBC and SPA
// Opening > 29/01, 18h
// 29/01 – 07/02
 
The festival’s daytime program in 2010 takes the shape, as in 2009, of a thematic laboratory. Visitors and participants alike are invited to explore the diverse issues raised by the OVERLAP theme, at both the practical and theoretical levels. With a mix of lectures, talks, workshops, installations and performances, the interdisciplinary program will transform the .HBC and the temporary exhibition spaces at the SPA into a lively hub of exchange and experiment, concerted contemplation and 'hands-on' learning.
 
In an academic or scientific context, 'the laboratory' connotes a protected workspace devoted to daring experiments with unforeseeable results as well as to carefully controlled and monitored tests. The perfect metaphor for what's in store at these venues.
 
Human perception and the strategic interweave of individual senses are the theme of the exhibition Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise, curated by Hicham Khalidi and produced by The Hague-based <TAG>.
 
Within the CTM.10 framework, the A MAZE. Interact Festival explores and debates the growing convergence of music, sound and computer games in four modules: a one-day symposium, an exhibition, a series of workshops and a club night. In cooperation with the UdK's Sound Studies and the European Media
Studies program of the University of Potsdam and the University of
Applied Studies Potsdam, the A MAZE. Interact – Music Games Exhibition presents commercial computer games in which music is the major theme or aim.
 
The CTM.10 Festival-Café in .HBC, a central hub for festival visitors, will be open for the duration of the festival offering breakfast, non-stop coffee and snacks, internet and good music.
 
The two-day event I.C.A.S. – International Cities of Advanced Sound brings together festival organisers from all over the world for a networking session.
 
The second annual Creative Independent Networks Market on February 5 and 6 (afternoon and evening) offers a presentation and exchange platform for advocates of independent music and media cultures. Labels, festivals, projects, creative spaces, magazines and initiatives present their activities.
 
The Structures-Blog accompanies the activities with commentaries, additional materials and more in-depth information.