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CCAM + Yale School of Music Flute Studio: Reimagining the Continuo: Flute in Sonic Breath / Signal / Interface
- Past event
What if we imagine electronics as a modern-day Baroque continuo? In Reimagining the Continuo: Flute in Sonic Breath / Signal / Interface, electronics serve as a contemporary continuo—an evolving sonic foundation that supports, challenges, and redefines the flute’s role. The flute enters a network of sound, image, and digital process, becoming an integrated musical partner. Works by Jacob TV, Kaija Saariaho, Elaine Lillios, Kian Ravaei, Elizabeth Brown, Freya Shearon and a premiere by Yale School of Music’s own Theodore Haber position breath as signal—circulating through systems that capt...
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CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition
- Past event
Experience the work of the 2025–2026 CCAM Studio Fellows! The fellowship invites invites creators to produce an original project based at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM). Their interdisciplinary work evolves through discoveries made in the program and involves partnership between CCAM and another entity. This culminating exhibition presents the current cohort of Studio Fellows’ work in the CCAM ISOVIST Gallery and other spaces around CCAM. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-...
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Tape Decay
- Past event
Tape Decay is an exhibit inspired by an interest in how memory works in the modern age. In the digital era, where anything can be captured with the click of a button, memories are much easier to preserve. However, even these technological surrogates are vulnerable to decay and will disappear eventually one day. This mortality is immediately and viscerally audible in the unique quality of analog recorded sound, which is defined as much by its imperfections as by its fidelity. When we hear the crackle of a vinyl record or the warble of a cassette tape, we are transported to the past, even if w...
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CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours: Princess Grace Foundation
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Join CCAM for a conversation with Diana Kemppainen, President and CEO of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, moderated by Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor). The Princess Grace Foundation-USA’s main philanthropic mission is the Princess Grace Awards, identifying and supporting extraordinary emerging artists in theater, dance and film. Over the past 40 years, the Foundation has awarded over 1,000 theater, dance, and film artists nationwide. The Princess Grace Foundation maintains a commitment to its Priincess Grace Award winners offering addition support beyond artists’ initial award, in the fo...
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10.02
- Past event
10.02 invites participants on a ten-minute, two-second audio-visual exploration of grief, death, and what it means to remember someone who is no longer here. From the spaces our lost loved ones occupied, to the places they’ll never see, our memories of them shift and transform as we continue on. 10.02 builds the architecture for thoughtful reflection and pause amidst the throes and demands of the outside world, and especially, at Yale. This immersive experience serves as a deconstruction and companion piece to the senior thesis documentary of Nicole Ahsan (Yale College, Class of 2026), which ...
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CCAM MIX: ground || horizons – Manuel Barenboim Segal
- Past event
CCAM MIX (Moving Image Exterior) exhibits moving images across the façade of 149 York Street, as well as inside our Leeds Studio. At the confluence of art, architecture, and public space, the system invites passersby to pause, see everyday surroundings in new ways, and enter the building to join us in our studios. ground || horizons In Spring 2026, CCAM MIX is being activated with ground || horizons, a project by Guest Art Directors Tusia Dabrowska and Wiktor Freifeld (MFA, Design – Projections, David Geffen School of Drama, 2026). From mid-January to mid-April, works by invited artists wor...
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The City Wears a Slouch Hat (presented by CCAM + Versacolor Collective)
- Past event
CCAM + Yale School of Music's Versacolor Collective presents The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen, by Kenneth Patchen, with a score by John Cage, and directed by Andrew Rodriguez (David Geffen School of Drama, MFA – Directing, 2027). Originally premiered as a radio drama in 1942, The City Wears a Slouch Hat follows an enigmatic, mysterious drifter through a series of bizarre encounters in a nameless city—an absurd, surreal play exploring the alienation of urban life and the nature of sound itself. With Kenneth Patchen's unconventional narrative and John Cage's bol...
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CCAM + Versacolor Collective: The City Wears a Slouch Hat
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CCAM + Yale School of Music's Versacolor Collective presents The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen, by Kenneth Patchen, with a score by John Cage, and directed by Andrew Rodriguez (David Geffen School of Drama, MFA – Directing, 2027).
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The City Wears a Slouch Hat (presented by CCAM + Versacolor Collective)
- Past event
CCAM + Yale School of Music's Versacolor Collective presents The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen, by Kenneth Patchen, with a score by John Cage, and directed by Andrew Rodriguez (David Geffen School of Drama, MFA – Directing, 2027). Originally premiered as a radio drama in 1942, The City Wears a Slouch Hat follows an enigmatic, mysterious drifter through a series of bizarre encounters in a nameless city—an absurd, surreal play exploring the alienation of urban life and the nature of sound itself. With Kenneth Patchen's unconventional narrative and John Cage's bol...
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CCAM + Versacolor Collective: The City Wears a Slouch Hat
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CCAM + Yale School of Music's Versacolor Collective presents The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen, by Kenneth Patchen, with a score by John Cage, and directed by Andrew Rodriguez (David Geffen School of Drama, MFA – Directing, 2027).
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Sea of Commodities
- Past event
Sea of Commodities is an immersive audio-visual performance weaving together live electronic ambient music, original narration, and dynamic video projections. At its core, the work is an artistic reflection on the lived experience of participating in a global, irreversible process of plastic pollution—an ongoing crisis that implicates all of us, inescapably and collectively.
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CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours: Xoliswa Sithole
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LOCATION: Loria Center (in the Yale School of Architecture building!), 190 York Street, Room B50 Join us for a discussion with award-winning South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole, focused on documentary filmmaking as a vital tool for preserving cultural heritage, collective memory, and lived histories, moderated by Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor). Sithole will reflect on her path into documentary filmmaking and discuss how she built an independent, international career. The session will focus on practical strategies and ethical frameworks for filmmakers navigating documentary product...
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Yale CCAM Sound Art Series: Joe Jones Retrospective (POSTPONED)
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The CCAM Sound Art Series presents a retrospective on the influential sound art pioneer Joe Jones (1934–1993). Join us for an evening with series curator Ross Wightman (CCAM Technical Manager), who will share his research on Jones' innovative work and lasting impact on sound art and Fluxus. As part of his talk, Wightman will reconstruct and demonstrate a selection of Jones’ music machines from the 1960s—a rare opportunity to experience these innovative creations firsthand. Joe Jones was an American avant-garde musician and visual artist affiliated with the Fluxus movement. Born in 1934 ...
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Mira Dayal, "Double-Stapled Möbius Strip"
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Double-Stapled Möbius Strip presents works from Mira Dayal’s ongoing “Language Objects” series, alongside a selection of the artist’s research materials and accompanying “instructions” for the sculptures. In her “Language Objects,” Dayal works with steel to create sculptural systems that reflect on the potentials and limits of language. She often abstracts the tools and processes of writing, informed by research that ranges from the ancient origins of written communication to geometric exercises, childhood games, and industrial fabrication.
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CCAM MIX: ground || horizons – Maria Hupfield
- Past event
CCAM MIX (Moving Image Exterior) exhibits moving images across the façade of 149 York Street, as well as inside our Leeds Studio. At the confluence of art, architecture, and public space, the system invites passersby to pause, see everyday surroundings in new ways, and enter the building to join us in our studios. ground || horizons In Spring 2026, CCAM MIX is being activated with ground || horizons, a project by Guest Art Directors Tusia Dabrowska and Wiktor Freifeld (MFA, Design – Projections, David Geffen School of Drama, 2026). From mid-January to mid-April, works by invited artists wor...
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CCAM Fest: Fluxus
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CCAM Fest is Yale CCAM’s interdisciplinary arts festival. This year, the Fest responds to Fluxus and its expansive range of people, practices, and ways of experiencing art. Our three-day program is accompanied by Happenings (and event scores, installations, and more)—selected through an open call—that will take place at CCAM, around Yale’s campus, and throughout New Haven.
