The “Dimensions of Digitalization” exhibition launches the ISOVIST gallery at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale.

In geometry, the isovist is the total space you can see from any point where you are standing. The choice of where to stand, and where to look, is part of your process as a body in space.

Process is also inherent to the prints, weaves, and permutations to explore in “Dimensions of Digitalization.”

Like much of the work produced and presented at CCAM, these processes often involve collaborations across time, media, and cultures:

Iskra Velitchkova’s experience of reading Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris. Dmitri Cherniak’s generative afterimages of pioneering predecessor László Moholy-Nagy. The threads, digital and physical, woven between Anna Lucia and the quilters of Gee’s Bend. Marcel Schwittlick’s drawings with light, based on years and years of gestural recordings.

The algorithmic undergirding of much of the work in the gallery is itself an inherent part of the process, generating unique artworks that are part of a larger whole.

Process is something we might not see, but that we can sense with our full bodies in space, in relationship to the work.

We invite you to do both from your personal isovist in the gallery.

Curated by Dana Karwas, CCAM Director and Critic, Yale School of Architecture & Ben Simon, CCAM Computer Art Fellow

Pictured: Iskra Velitchkova, “ToSolaris #72,” 2022, pigment print on metal

The CCAM Symposium is a biannual, interdisciplinary event that investigates the cultural landscape of our time. As a bridge between the discoveries at CCAM and those around campus and in the larger world, it takes the form of discussions, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and more.

In Spring 2024, the symposium is grounded in the center’s Ultra Space research and will feature:

→ Events with guest speakers, including:

• Momoyo Homma, Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation + Arakawa+Gins Tokyo Office
• Takashi Ikegami, Director, Takashi Ikegami Lab + Professor, University of Tokyo
• ST Luk, Project Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation
• Harshita Nedunuri, Transdisciplinary Designer + Researcher, CCAM Ultra Space Research Fellow
• Setareh Samandari, Director + Visual Effects Artist
• Habib Zagarpour, Visual Effects Artist, Bladerunner 2049

→ A live performance of Konrad Kaczmarek’s “Studies in Automation: Guitar Quartet”

→ The grand opening of ISOVIST—CCAM’s new gallery—with works by leading digital artists, Yale student artists, + others

• Refik Anadol
• Dmitri Cherniak
• Eric De Giuli
• Anna Lucia
• Marcel Schwittlick
• Iskra Velitchkova

→ The launch of the inaugural edition of the CCAM Printed Volume!

→ Presentations from the symposium Call for Papers:
https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ctHMGdPRxjJkVwy

The premiere concert of “Studies in Automation: Guitar Quartet” by Konrad Kaczmarek, composer, instrument designer, and Yale Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music will launch the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s!

The evening will include a symposium welcome by Dana Karwas, CCAM Director and Critic, Yale School of Architecture, as well as the launch of the new CCAM ISOVIST gallery, with a presentation of the works in its first show “Dimensions of Digitalization,” curated by Karwas and Ben Simon, CCAM Computer Art Fellow. We’ll also reveal the Spring 2023 CCAM Ultra Space Printed Volume, with remarks by Lauren Dubowski, CCAM Assistant Director.

Stay and celebrate at the reception to follow.

Join us for lunch and Ultra Space project presentations by CCAM Fellow Kaifeng Wu and CCAM Studio Fellow Wai Hin Wong! This event is part of the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s.

​​Can architecture help you live forever? At any given point while inside the Mitaka Lofts in Tokyo designed by Arakawa and Gins, you can see a minimum of six colors. Hear how artists, architects, and curators have encountered this multi-sensory experience—and imagine how you would, too.

• Momoyo Homma, Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation + Arakawa+Gins Tokyo Office
• Takashi Ikegami, Director, Takashi Ikegami Lab + Professor, University of Tokyo
• ST Luk, Project Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation
• Harshita Nedunuri, Transdisciplinary Designer + Researcher, CCAM Ultra Space Research Fellow
• Koichi Tsutsui, Lead Architect, Mitaka Lofts

This event is part of the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s.

Enter the mind of complexity scientist Takashi Ikegami. Arakawa and Gins’ experimental architecture and Ikegami’s intricate systems for “artificial life” remind us that form and function, space and perception, are not just an art, but a science of living. What can we learn from a human-like robot pretending to be a snake?

• Takashi Ikegami, Director, Takashi Ikegami Lab + Professor, University of Tokyo

This event is part of the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s.

Academy-nominated VFX supervisor Habib Zargarpour will conclude the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s. A live demo by Habib, together with director/VFX artist Setareh Samandari, will feature the latest VFX processes. Not to be missed!

• Habib Zargarpour, Visual Effects Artist, Bladerunner 2049
• Setareh Samandari, Director + Visual Effects Artist

The CCAM Studio Fellowship invites Yale upper-level undergraduate and graduate students to produce an original project based at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM).

Join us on Friday and Saturday at 6pm for an exhibition of the work of this year’s fellows, with a performance each night at 8pm.

2023–2024 CCAM Studio Fellows:

Nathan Apfel (Yale College ’25, BA Mathematics & Physics)
Nicholas Arvanitis (Yale School of Architecture ’25, MArch I)
Joji Baratelli (Yale College ’24, BA Humanities)
Beshouy Botros (Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ’27, PhD History)
Emily Cai (Yale College ’25, BA Computing and the Arts)
Sarah Feng (Yale College ’25, BA Cognitive Science & Humanities)
Lily Koslow (Yale School of Music ’25, MM in Composition)
Sammi Kwon (Yale College ’25, BA Physics & Computing and the Arts)
Tracy (Xinran) Li (Yale College ’25, BA Computer Science and Architecture)
Aly Moosa (Yale College ’25, BA Computer Science & Ethnicity, Race, and Migration)
Jason Nuttle (Yale College ’25, BS Mechanical Engineering & BA Art)
Andina Marie Osorio (Yale School of Art ’24, MFA Photography)
Karela Palazio (Yale College ’25, BA Art & Religious Studies)
Wai Hin Wong (Yale School of Architecture ’24, MArch I)

Pictured: Work in progress by Joji Baratelli

The CCAM Studio Fellowship invites Yale upper-level undergraduate and graduate students to produce an original project based at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM).

Join us on Friday and Saturday at 6pm for an exhibition of the work of this year’s fellows, with a performance each night at 8pm.

2023–2024 CCAM Studio Fellows:

Nathan Apfel (Yale College ’25, BA Mathematics & Physics)
Nicholas Arvanitis (Yale School of Architecture ’25, MArch I)
Joji Baratelli (Yale College ’24, BA Humanities)
Beshouy Botros (Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ’27, PhD History)
Emily Cai (Yale College ’25, BA Computing and the Arts)
Sarah Feng (Yale College ’25, BA Cognitive Science & Humanities)
Lily Koslow (Yale School of Music ’25, MM in Composition)
Sammi Kwon (Yale College ’25, BA Physics & Computing and the Arts)
Tracy (Xinran) Li (Yale College ’25, BA Computer Science and Architecture)
Aly Moosa (Yale College ’25, BA Computer Science & Ethnicity, Race, and Migration)
Jason Nuttle (Yale College ’25, BS Mechanical Engineering & BA Art)
Andina Marie Osorio (Yale School of Art ’24, MFA Photography)
Karela Palazio (Yale College ’25, BA Art & Religious Studies)
Wai Hin Wong (Yale School of Architecture ’24, MArch I)

Pictured: Work in progress by Joji Baratelli

Join us for an introduction to the fellowships available to the filmmakers at Yale.

We will discuss fellowships, what they are, and answer any questions.

This is a discussion hosted by CCAM, led by Jill Carrera with Susan Youssef.

Jill Carrera (she/they) is Senior Associate Director of Fellowships and Funding in the Office of Fellowships. She completed her BA in Theater Studies at Yale University and worked in administrative theater in NYC before joining Yale Undergraduate Admissions in 2018. She helps manage and advise students for various fellowships, namely the Fulbright US Student Grants and the Henry S. Truman Scholarships, and also oversees the ISA process. Jill also advises for the Yale internal summer fellowships under the Common Application. She is a first-year advisor and fellow for Jonathan Edwards College and is passionate about helping students reach their own personal goals.

Susan Youssef (she/her) is Film Advisor at Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. She is a filmmaker who has made three films that can be viewed on Netflix: Habibi, Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf, and Amsterdam to Anatolia. She has a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism from Yale University.

Bill Fontana has been a pioneer of sound art since the 1970s. Using sound as a sculptural medium, he reveals hidden acoustic worlds and transforms the way we perceive the visual and architectural spaces around us. His works have been installed at SFMOMA and across the globe, from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Arc de Triomphe to London’s Millennium Bridge and Big Ben. He has also created radio sound art projects for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR, KQED, the BBC, West German Broadcasting Cologne (WDR), Radio Sweden, Radio France, and Austrian State Radio.

For this event in the CCAM Sound Art Series Fontana will be presenting his work “Silent Echoes: Notre Dame.” Fontana describes this work as a sound sculpture that “makes audible the fact that the bells of Notre Dame are secretly ringing all the time.” Fontana continues: “The sound that the bells are producing is created by their harmonic response to the ambient sounds of Paris that surround Notre Dame, revealing that these bells are giant metal ears.”

CCAM Sound Art Series curator and producer Ross Wightman will collaborate with Fontana to adapt this spatialized audio visual installation to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Notre Dame fires, which occurred on April 19, 2019. The event will feature a demo of the installation, as well as an artist talk by Fontana and a discussion moderated by Wightman.

The CCAM Sound Art Series is centered around the sonic arts in its many forms. It presents a diversity of works by guest artists that investigates sound through the intersections of experimental musical performance, installation art, performance art, and beyond. In addition to live performance and public presentation of sound-based art, open discussions invite the audience to further engage with the featured artists and works.