The Kollage Kollectiv container space in Berlin becomes the setting for this 36th edition of the Roundtable — a site where architecture, experimentation, and community practice are already inseparable from the work being shown and discussed. Within this environment, Pauline Kess, Ed Rooth, and Alessandra Fabris come together in conversation — each approaching image-making through a different entry point: embodied performance, generative systems, and spatial identity.
Rather than a single theme, the focus emerges through friction and overlap: how visuals are produced in real time, how bodies and interfaces negotiate control, and how digital systems become performative environments in their own right. From choreographic interaction and sensor-based setups to app-driven audiovisual composition and identity-informed spatial media, the exchange moves between tools, perception, and presence.
Set inside a working, repurposed infrastructure built for making rather than presenting, the Roundtable reflects its surroundings: unfinished, adaptive, and in constant translation between idea and form.
19:00 UHR / 7:00 PM / DOORS OPEN
Kollage Kollectiv
Kollage Kollectiv is an independent art crew rooted in Prenzlauer Berg, where a repurposed container space has grown into a vibrant site for experimentation, collaboration, and community. What began as a creative experiment now unfolds as a living, evolving hub for workshops, installations, and performative works.
Built from recycled materials and guided by a strong DIY ethos, the collective works at the intersection of creative coding, electronic music, visual arts, and hands-on engineering. Their container structures host everything from interactive workshops to a “spaceship” stage and an ever-changing gallery space, where light, sound, and 3D visuals are brought into dialogue through custom-built systems and hacked sensors.
At its core, Kollage Kollectiv transforms resourcefulness into method — treating material limitation as a creative starting point. Within their space, coders, dancers, musicians, and visual artists meet to explore new forms of collaboration, turning discarded matter into immersive, multisensory environments and opening up a shared field for making, testing, and evolving ideas.
20:00 UHR / 8:00 PM /
Pauline Kess (kollage kollectiv)
Pauline Kess is a visual artist, dancer, and co-founder of Kollage Kollectiv whose practice unfolds between movement, digital media, and spatial installation. Working with TouchDesigner as her primary tool, she creates abstract visual environments shaped by rhythm, gesture, and the dialogue between bodies and machines. Rooted in dance, her work moves across performance, projection, and interactive scenography, where visuals respond and spaces continuously transform. Through sensor-based systems, projection, and hands-on constructions often made from recycled materials, she builds immersive environments that turn code into physical experience, inviting movement, exploration, and connection.
paulinekess.com
instagram.com/pauline.kess
21:00 UHR / 9:00 PM / ED ROOTH
We’re excited to welcome Ed Rooth to the Roundtable, a developer and visual artist exploring real-time graphics through mobile devices and visual instruments. His latest project, Chromatose, is a shader-driven visual synthesizer for iPhone and iPad that transforms mobile devices into tools for generative and audio-reactive visuals. In this session, Ed will share the journey of bringing TouchDesigner-inspired ideas into the iOS ecosystem, discussing shaders, Metal, mobile graphics workflows, and the design of creative tools that favour immediacy, experimentation, and live performance.
chromatose.app
instagram.com/chromatose.app
22:00 UHR / 10:00 PM / Alessandra Fabris
Alessandra Fabris, a designer and audiovisual artist is working between identity systems and real-time spatial media. With a background in graphic design and art direction, her practice spans branding, digital platforms, and communication design, translating visual languages into dynamic, evolving formats. Alongside her design work, she develops volumetric and sound-responsive systems for immersive environments and live performances, where narrative, rhythm, and perception unfold over time.
axfabris.com
instagram.com/axfabris
The TD Roundtable XXXVI is being supported by:
Derivative / derivative.ca
The TD Roundtable XXXVI is MEETING AT:
Kollage Kollectiv
Lilli-Henoch-Straße 21
10405 Berlin
Germany
Public Transportation:
S Bahn Greifswalder Straße
