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CTM Festival 2020:

MusicMakers Hacklab - Shapeshifters

The MusicMakers Hacklab is a performance laboratory that aims to invent tools and strategies for improvised play.

 Under the title closeness/nähe, the 2022 year’s theme for MusicMakers Hacklab was the title closeness/nähe
After a fully virtual year in 2021, this upcoming Hacklab takes a first step back into in-person collaboration with an open The fellows are invited to consider intimacy and physical proximity in their Hacklab creations, but also how they might reshape their own artistic identities or local communities/scenes, building unfamiliar selves while remaining in a familiar city/place. The 2022 MusicMakers Hacklab was led by Ariel William Orah and Peter Kirn.

in 2020 title of Hacklab was Shapeshifters, the 2020 CTM Hacklab focussed on how performance practice and invention can change the performer—making them someone or something else, making them newly visible, or making them entirely invisible. The 2020 MusicMakers Hacklab was led by Tad Ermitaño and Peter Kirn.

CTM Festival 2018:

MusicMakers Hacklab - The Hacked Mind

Under the theme "The Hacked Mind" the CTM 2018 MusicMakers Hacklab invited participants to invent collaborative performances that embrace the chaos, strangeness, and cultural anxiety surrounding the theme of AI and Machine Learning.

Facilitated by Peter Kirn and Ioann Maria.

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