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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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). 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)
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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). 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
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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
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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.
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CCAM MIX: ground || horizons – Małgorzata Kozera
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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 MIX: ground || horizons – Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson
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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. In Spring 2026, CCAM MIX is being activated with ground || horizons—and the next invited artist in the series is Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson!
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Resounding Nature & Turing’s Sunflower
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Resounding Nature is an arts-forward research initiative that transforms real-time ecological data into music and immersive sound, helping us hear environmental change and listen for tipping points in living systems.
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CCAM + Linda Cummings: "Slippages" Book Launch
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Join us for a book launch celebrating the release of Slippages: Photographs by Linda Cummings, a landmark publication of photographs by artist Linda Cummings, published by Skira. The book showcases 70 high-quality duotone images spanning the decade between the millennium (1992 to 2002) and the waning of analog photography. Cummings’ compositions toss expectations to the wind, transposing gender dynamics with a slight of hand. The images convey Cummings’ innovative approach to photographic narrative through actions performed and photographed by the artist on site, in locations as varied as s...
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Synth Petting Zoo
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Join us for the next installment of CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Synth Petting Zoo, where we explore: What are analog synthesizers, how are they made and what can you do with them? This event is open to all skill levels, from beginner to advanced synth users, or anyone curious about sound making and creative electrical engineering. Innovator Will Mullany will discuss his artistic process of designing and manufacturing audio systems for his electronic instrument company, Molasses Industries (Richmond, VA). In addition to Mullany’s presentation, various synthesizers will be available in the CCAM Le...
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CCAM Yard Sale
- Past event
CCAM is cleaning out our equipment and supply rooms! Stop by to browse an array of equipment, art supplies, and random gear and knickknacks—all available for purchase at affordable prices. Please note that payment is by card only. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, and room capacity limits will apply.
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Resounding Nature x NOW Ensemble Exploratory Workshop
- Past event
Join us for this workshop and playthrough featuring original music created through Resounding Nature in collaboration with students from Music Haven.
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CCAM Community Event: NOW Ensemble
- Past event
CCAM presents an evening of original music performed by NOW Ensemble.
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: AI Incubator - AiXit
- Past event
This workshop, led by guest artist Roeland Hancock, Director of BrainWorks, will invite community members to test out his CCAM AI Incubator project “AiXit.”
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CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours: Jude Weng
- Past event
Join us for a discussion with director and writer Jude Weng—known for her work with Netflix, HBO, Disney+, and more, moderated by Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor).
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CCAM Negativland + SUE-C
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The CCAM Sound Art Series continues with legendary sound-collage group Negativland and live cinema artist SUE-C, presenting their latest audio-visual performance SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE.
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CCAM ISOVIST Gallery Fall Exhibition Opening: “I hold it towards you”
- Past event
I hold it towards you is curated by New York-based researcher, writer, and curator Fabiola Alondra.
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Sound for Film
- Past event
This workshop, taught by Grammy award-winning guest artist Tom Efinger (Red Hook Post, Brooklyn) and Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor) is devoted to sound in filmmaking.
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CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours: Ashley Bernes
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Join us for a conversation with Ashley Bernes, the Emmy-nominated VFX supervisor known for Severance and much more, moderated by Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor).
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Max MSP + RNBO
- Past event
In this workshop, Ross Wightman and collaborator Konrad Kaczmarek invite you to explore Max/MSP—an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software.
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Projection Mapping
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This workshop, taught by artist and designer Christian Killada invites you to explore projection design and the unique capabilities of the CCAM projection mapping system in our Leeds Studio.
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Meet the Artist: Sigune Hamann (CCAM x Brainworks, Wu Tsai Institute)
- Past event
Join us for an evening at CCAM with Sigune Hamann, Artist-in-Residence (2024-25), Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University.
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CCAM Open House: An Evening of the Arts Event
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You’re invited to the CCAM Open House! Part of the Evening of the Arts events presented by the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Repertory Theatre, and Yale University Art Gallery in collaboration with Yale College Arts.
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CCAM x Planetary Solutions: Listening to Climate Change
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This two-day event explores creative outcomes from the Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS) Seed Grant project “Addressing Climate Change Through the Music of Bird Murmuration”—a collaboration with Music Haven, an inclusive music education organization that enables young people to learn, play, and express themselves through tuition-free classical music lessons and mentoring. Listening to Climate Change is led by Judith Lichtman (School of Public Health), Matthew Suttor (Center for Collaborative Arts and Media), Konrad Kaczmarek (Department of Music), Diego Ellis Soto (UC Berkeley), and Jonathan ...
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CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours: Jarod Neece, Senior Programmer at Tribeca
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Jarod Neece, Senior Programmer at Tribeca Film Festival (Tribeca Enterprises) in New York City, joins CCAM Film Advisor Susan Youssef for an engaging conversation about film festival programming. Jarod previously served as Partner, Senior Programmer, and Event Producer for the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX, where he spent 20 years guiding strategic direction and leading teams as a Senior Film Programmer, specializing in feature film and genre programming. He has been a juror or panelist at events such as Cannes, Sundance, the B3 Biennale, and TIFF and currently serves on the adviso...
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CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition
- Past event
Experience the work of the 2024–2025 CCAM Studio Fellows! The fellowship invites creators to produce an original project based at the center. This exhibition will feature art, installation, performance, and other work by: * Kino Alvarez (David Geffen School of Drama, Technical Design and Production, 2025) * Jaamal Benjamin (Yale School of Art, Graphic Design, 2025) * Vani Bhushan (Yale School of Art, Photography, 2025) * Bohan Chen (Yale School of Architecture, 2025) * Helen Liene Dreifelds (Yale School of Art, Sculpture, 2025) * Deming Haines (Yale School of Architecture...
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CCAM Sound Art Series: Raven Chacon
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In celebration of its five-year anniversary, the CCAM Sound Art Series is thrilled to present Raven Chacon. Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, the Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and the Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created artworks presented at the W...
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Performing Media Artifacts
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Join us for this introduction to docudrama and ethnographic theater. You’ll use media artifacts, including the recorded and filmed word, as source. Through interviews and found materials—such as voice memos, filmed speeches, or anywhere a human voice can be recorded— you’ll explore live performance as a way of knowing, by working to (re)present the words of another person verbatim. This workshop is designed and taught by Francisco Morandi Zerpa (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Acting, 2026), and selected as part of the CCAM Wednesday Wisdom Open Call! Create, discover, and explore...
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CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations” (Day 3)
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Join us for Day 3 of the CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations!” The events take place at CCAM (149 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511) in the Leeds Studio, unless otherwise noted. 5:00pm–5:15pm: Byte by Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Planetary Scientist, Planetary Environments Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 5:15pm–6:30pm: Panel: “Illuminating the Mysterious and Unexplainable” * Elise Morrison, Assistant Professor, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Yale University * Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies, Yale University * ...
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CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations” (Day 2)
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Join us for Day 2 of the CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations!” The events take place at CCAM (149 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511) in the Leeds Studio, unless otherwise noted. 4:00pm–5:00pm: Arts Library Pop-Up with Caroline Scheving, 2024/25 Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship, Yale University Library 5:00pm–5:15pm: Byte by Sally Snowman, U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouse Keeper (2003–2023) 5:15pm–5:45pm: Submersible Experience * Alison Sweeney, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Physics, Yale University 5:45pm–7:00pm: Panel: “Illumination, Darkness, ...
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CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations” (Day 1)
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | 5:00PM to 9:00PM Join us for Day 1 of the CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations!” The events take place at CCAM (149 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511) in the Leeds Studio, unless otherwise noted. 5:00pm–5:15pm: Symposium Opening with the CCAM Team 5:15pm–6:45pm: “ReVerb Room” * Sarah Oppenheimer, Professor in the Practice, Yale School of Art and CCAM Faculty Fellow * Vic Brooks, Curator and Creative Producer * Pam Jordan, Architect, Heritage Consultant, and Writer Join us for a transposition of Sarah Oppenheimer’s “N-04008,” cre...
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CCAM Symposium: "Illuminations" (Wednesday, February 19, Thursday, February 20, and Friday, February 21, 5:00pm–9:00pm each day)
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CCAM Symposium: “Illuminations”: Opening Event: “ReVerb Room” with Sarah Oppenheimer Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | 5:00PM to 6:45PM Join us for a transposition of Sarah Oppenheimer’s “N-04008,” created at Atelier Calder in Saché, France in 2024. Participants will explore the reverberations of the artwork in a new space and time. A reconstructed sonic network will simultaneously perform an echo of the work at Atelier Calder and an exploration of emerging prototypes. Following this experiment, Oppenheimer will be joined in conversation by Vic Brooks and Pamela Jordan. “ReVerb Room” is suppo...
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CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours: Meet the Showrunner with Dr. Neal Baer
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Join us for a “Meet the Showrunner” event with Dr. Neal Baer, Yale professor, showrunner of “Law & Order: SVU,” and longtime writer and producer of “ER.” This event is a part of the CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours. Join us for these discussions with Susan Youssef and fellow leaders from the world of film! Dr. Baer recently served as Executive Producer and Showrunner of the third season of “Designated Survivor,” starring Kiefer Sutherland, which premiered globally on Netflix in the summer of 2019. Prior to “Designated Survivor,” he was Executive Producer and Showrunner for the hit CBS se...
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: From A to Z
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Explore a hands-on, experimental approach to typography with Tomáš Hlava, CCAM Graphic Designer and MFA candidate in Graphic Design at Yale School of Art! Note: For participants who would like to do the exercise in full, please have experience with Adobe Illustrator or Glyphs and bring your own computer. This workshop will begin with a short talk by Tomáš, who will share his interest in typography and specific context—when a type or a letter, often not even designed by a type designer, derives from specific situation or physical circumstances. Following the talk, you’ll have the ...
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Analog Synth + Graphic Design
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Dive into the fascinating realm of Eurorack synthesizers and learn how to transform sound into visual art. Participants will explore the basics of audio synthesis and learn to create dynamic visuals in real time, connecting creativity across mediums. Whether you’re a musician, designer, visual, or performance artist—or simply curious—this workshop offers a unique opportunity to experiment and collaborate at the intersection of the heard and the seen. Designed and taught by Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Yale College), Ro...
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Film + Mobile Media
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Transform your phone into a filmmaking powerhouse. Join us for this introduction to mobile technology for filmmaking. Learn how to shoot and export in 6K, manage audio, and craft brilliant short films and documentaries geared to online and festival audiences. Designed and taught by Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor) Create, discover, and explore—and be part of the CCAM community! Our Wednesday Wisdom workshops explore dynamic intersections of the arts and technology, and are designed and taught by our team, along with collaborators from both on and off campus. Come to CCAM on select Wedn...
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CCAM Wednesday Wisdom: Producing for Feature Film
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Create, discover, and explore—and be part of the CCAM community! Our Wednesday Wisdom workshops explore dynamic intersections of the arts and technology, and are designed and taught by our team, along with collaborators from both on and off campus. Come to CCAM on select Wednesday evenings between September and May for creativity, conversation, and a pizza dinner. Join Yale alum and veteran producer Dan Carey, together with CCAM Film Advisor Susan Youssef, for this workshop on financing independent feature film. You’ll gain practical insight into how projects move from idea to reality. Thi...
