It is a particular honour to welcome Jan Gryczan, the force behind the remarkable resource alltd.org, dedicated to collecting and maintaining TouchDesigner tutorials and community knowledge, alongside Bahram Pourghadiri, creator of seeplayshow.com, and audiovisual artist Abstraqt.
Hosted by Catalyst Berlin—an international learning community based at the historic Funkhaus—this Roundtable is embedded in a practice-driven environment that connects creative production, interdisciplinary arts, and technology. With its hands-on, collaborative approach to education across sound, music, film, and visual media, Catalyst provides a fitting context for this conversation, further reflected through Abstraqt’s role as part of its teaching community.
Bringing together perspectives from community building, tool development, artistic practice, and education, the Roundtable explores real-time image-making, system design, and immersive media. From generative visual systems and performative control interfaces to questions of how media art can engage with activism and social justice—as explored in Abstraqt’s work—it reflects on how visual languages are developed, shared, and performed across contexts, and how they can operate within broader cultural and political frameworks.
If you can not attend the in-person event in Berlin, do not worry — we will stream the talks on our YouTube channel.
19:00 UHR / 7:00 PM / DOORS OPEN
Catalyst Berlin
Catalyst is an international learning community, offering progressive education in creative production, interdisciplinary arts and technology at the iconic Funkhaus in Berlin. Their courses span electronic music production and performance, audio production, sound engineering, sound for visual media, filmmaking, visual effects and acting. They range from summer short courses to bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Students learn in English as part of a community of over 75 nationalities. Based on practice-based learning and collaboration, and guided by industry experts and tutors, their progressive education model empowers students to learn by doing and discover their unique creative identity.
catalyst-berlin.com
20:00 UHR / 8:00 PM
abstraqt
abstraqt is a multimedia body that inhabits physical and digital spaces. In its practice it searches for and builds relations between humans, communities, media, as well as between art and activism. Deeply reliant on digital tools, abstraqt’s work is an act of extension of physical environments. It creates spaces where new forms of within-technological spirituality emerge. Multimedia by nature, abstraqt’s installations, live performances and curated events let sound, image, light, space and body move as parts of one organism.
abstraqt.space
vimeo.com/aabstraqt
21:00 UHR / 9:00 PM
Bahram Pourghadiri
Bahram Pourghadiri is a creative technologist working at the intersection of real-time systems, web tools, and interactive storytelling. He is the creator of seeplayshow.com, a lightweight platform that enables TouchDesigner users to control custom parameters live from the browser, with flexible UI panels tailored for clients, performers, and VJs. Alongside this, Bahram and his partner Neda run See Play Dream, a creative network built on two decades of experience across global brands and experimental formats.
seeplaydream.com
seeplayshow.com
22:00 UHR / 10:00 PM
Jan Gryczan
Jan Gryczan is a visual artist, AV technician, and interactive designer working at the intersection of art, technology, and live systems. With a background in visual communication and photography, his practice spans exhibition work, gallery installations, and event production, often integrating projection mapping and immersive spatial design. He is the founder of alltd.org, an extensive archive of TouchDesigner tutorials, talks, and resources, and has been involved in Berlin’s experimental scene, including the legendary Loophole in Neukölln.
alltd.org
instagram.com/alltd_org
The TD Roundtable XXXV is being supported by:
Derivative / derivative.ca
Catalyst Berlin / catalyst-berlin.com
The TD Roundtable XXXV is MEETING AT:
Catalyst Berlin
Funkhaus, Nalepastr. 18
12459 Berlin
Germany
Public Transportation:
Tram 21 : Köpenicker Chaussee / Blockdammweg