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Dr. Lauren Dubowski is a writer, producer, and curator. In her current role as Interim Director, she leads and collaborates with the CCAM team in realizing the center’s programming, projects, and research. As part of this work, she is serving as the Principal Investigator of the Yale-HP Curricular Technology Grant. Lauren received her DFA and MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She was a Fulbright fellow to Poland and a Luce Scholar in Indonesia.

Dr. Matthew Suttor is a composer and educator who is passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and music, Matthew is a longstanding member of the CCAM community, and he brings more than two decades of experience at Yale. Matthew collaborates closely with the CCAM team to develop and implement programming, as well as continue his work as a teacher and mentor. Matthew is driven by questions surrounding the creation of music from the patterns found in the natural world, the achievement of effective collaboration with AI, and the possibility of teaching creativity.

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Ross Wightman is a double bassist and composer from New Jersey. He is the founder, curator and producer of the CCAM Sound Art Series as well as the founder of the CCAM Audio Composition Collective (CCAMACC), which creates virtual, multimedia musical performances for remote laptop ensemble. He teaches courses on Computer Music Composition and is faculty at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. rosswightman.net

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Susan Youssef is a Brooklyn-born director who lives between Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she has been making films, and Connecticut, where she is the Yale CCAM Film Advisor. She has become recognized for a diverse body of work, from her indie movies, to video art commissioned by the Tate Modern, to her time spent within the studio system in the ABC/Disney Director and NBCU Launch Programs. Susan is a member of the Directors branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Read more >>

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Maggie Schnyer is a composer, artist, and filmmaker from northwest Connecticut. She graduated from Yale College, where she studied Computing and the Arts and minored in Education Studies. As a creative programmer, she’s most interested in generative music and art, as well as in creating accessible projects for interactive or live performance. Maggie served for three years as Assistant Conductor and Co-President of the Davenport Pops Orchestra. She was also a founding member of the Cinemat, now Yale’s largest filmmaking community. maggieschnyer.com

Alex Zafiris is a writer based in New York. She has contributed to Bomb, Guernica, and The Paris Review Daily. Alex spearheaded, launched, and edits CCAM’s journal Maquette, an archive in motion of the creative projects and culture of CCAM.

Sarah Oppenheimer is an architectural manipulator whose work explores the emergent relations between human and non-human systems. Rhythms and timescales of living systems flow from body to building and back again. The viewer is transformed into an agent of spatial change. Oppenheimer lives and works in New York, USA and Rotterdam, NL, and is a Professor in the Practice at Yale School of Art. sarahoppenheimer.com

Dr. Ariel Ekblaw is the founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute, where she strives to bring humanity’s space exploration future to life. Through architecture R&D, education and outreach, and policy thought leadership, she is building a remarkable team and a novel FRO (Focused Research Organization) to expand humanity’s horizons and scale life in space. Ariel co-teaches the Mechanical Artifact Ultra Space class (ARCH 2238) at the Yale School of Architecture with CCAM Director, Dana Karwas. 

https://www.aureliainstitute.org/

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Harshita Nedunuri is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher based in NYC. Her creative practice is centered around applied speculative design and cyborg anthropology, with a specific interest in empathy and poetry as instruments of divining collective consciousness. Read more >>

Shannon Magri is a second year PhD student with scholarship and Research Assistant at the Visual Media Lab at University of Bergamo. For the Fall 2024 semester, she is a Visiting Assistant in Research in Film and Media Studies and at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale University. She holds a BA in Humanities and a MA in Visual Culture from the University of Bergamo. Read more >>

Ben Simon is a business manager and agent for leading digital artists releasing work on the blockchain. He represents artists at the forefront of experimentation with computer and digital art, supporting their careers and practices. His background prior to working in the arts was primarily in organizational development and strategic planning for large international nonprofits like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Mozilla, UNICEF, and Save the Children. He’s greatly enjoying the nimble experimentation of a dynamic field like digital art. He holds a degree in economics from Yale College.

Gabriel Winer will experiment with cinema as a live theatrical medium, incorporating the complete process of filmmaking and presentation into a single event. His research is part of an ongoing interest in the expanded potential of the moving image. As part of the CCAM Machine as Medium Fellowship he will work with collaborators both in Berlin and at Yale with the goal to develop a new work and bring it to an audience. 

Wai Hin (Alfred) Wong is an architectural designer based in New Haven, Connecticut. His creative practice bridges architecture and engineering, with a focus on integrating technology and fabrication techniques to explore future human-machine interactions. Wai Hin has been actively engaged with Yale CCAM since pursuing his M.Arch I at Yale School of Architecture, which he completed in 2024. Read more >>