The premise
A capability graph with a members' club at the door.
Every creative network promises discovery and delivers a feed. CTC starts from the other end: a structured record of what each member can do — disciplines, roles, specialisms, skills, tools, city — reviewed before it enters the graph.
Admission changes everything downstream. Search you can trust, credits that mean something, and a room where showing unfinished work is safe, because everyone in it has already shown theirs.
It is closer to a private members' club than a job board, and closer to a map than a feed. You are not a profile here. You are a field.
Identity on CTC is written in a governed vocabulary — 162 terms across six axes, curated, versioned, and stable. Nothing on this page is drawn from anything else.
The identity mark
Anatomy of a mark.
No member designs their mark. It is derived — four geometric families, one per kind of practice, composed as signed-distance fields and drawn as contour lines. The same data always develops the same mark. Change the data, and the mark must change.
Lens
Radial. Lens-based & curatorial practice — photography, film & video, curation.
Wave
Periodic. Time-based practice — music & audio, animation & motion, performance, illustration.
Rule
Axial. Compositional practice — design, writing & publishing, spatial design.
Facet
Polygonal. Material & constructed practice — visual art, craft, fashion & textiles, digital & interactive.
- Each discipline contributes one geometry, from its family.
- Each specialism tunes that geometry — radius, frequency, angle, facet count.
- One contour line per claimed skill. Depth is drawn, not stated.
- Longitude sets the grain — the whole field rotates to where you work.
- Vouches fuse the field. New members' geometries haven't melted together yet.
- The name seeds only the phase. The data does the drawing.
Develop a provisional mark.
Choose what's true about you and watch the field compose — live, from the same engine that draws every member. Provisional marks render in safelight red, dotted: latent, unfixed, not yet admitted.
PROVISIONAL — 0 VOUCHES — UNFUSED
The network
The whole room, at once.
One hundred and forty members, arranged by practice — fourteen discipline sectors, multidisciplinarians drift toward the centre. Select a capability to see exactly who answers to it. This is what discovery is here: a question put to the graph, not a scroll through a feed.
Select a capability above, or move through the room.
A map of the network: 140 member marks arranged in a circle of fourteen discipline sectors. Filtering by a capability such as colour grading or creative coding highlights the members who hold it and draws the connections between them.
The vocabulary
What the door protects.
Identity here isn't freeform tags. It is a governed vocabulary — curated, reviewed, and stable — so that when you search for a capability, the answer means something. Six axes, each a question a working creative can actually answer:
On top of the graph: groups formed around real work, posts that carry credits, events worth leaving the studio for — and vetting at every door. The vocabulary is the floor the whole room stands on.
Admission
Development.
LATENT — 0%
This is your provisional mark — or the guest mark, if you didn't develop one above. Right now it is a latent image: red, dotted, unfixed.
Hold the button and watch it develop.
Development stops at ninety percent. The last ten is not yours to do — a member vouches for you, and admission fixes the image.