Come learn about live-coding from Roxanne Harris! Roxanne is a current Blended Reality Studio Fellow who is pursuing a degree in Computer Science and Music at Yale College. Building upon her training as a saxophonist and skills in software engineering, sound design, and digital art, she began live-coding in 2021. At this demo, Roxanne will share her live-coding practice and talk about her experiences in the international live-coding community. She will also provide tips on how you can get started or become more involved with live-coding yourself.

CCAM launches ULTRA SPACE, our new initiative probing how we see, inhabit, interact with, and understand extreme environments, with a talk by Xin Liu! In her practice, Xin creates experiences/experiments to take measurements in our personal, social, and technological spaces in a post-metaphysical world: between gravity and homeland, sorrow and the composition of tears, gene sequencing and astrology. She examines the discourse-power nexus as an active practitioner, an experimenter, and a performer. Her recent research and interest center around the verticality of space, extraterrestrial explorations, and cosmic metabolism. Xin is the Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, and a member of the inaugural ONX Studio program founded by the New Museum and Onassis NY, as well as of Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center. She is also an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute.

For our first event in the third annual CCAM Sound Art Series, we are excited to welcome Viola Yip! Viola Yip is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and instrument builder from Hong Kong. At this event, Viola will speak with Ross Wightman about her practice, and perform her instrument Bulbble (2019) — an electronic, self-built instrument that has a variable configuration, assembles four to 12 channels of incandescent light bulbs. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Join us for the first in this series of workshops presented by CCAM and the Cinemat, a Yale undergraduate student organization that promotes education in all aspects of film! At this workshop, we will explore DaVinci Resolve — an industry standard software that uniquely combines editing, color-correction, motion graphics, and sound mixing all in one place. This workshop caters to beginners. The first half will be instructional, while the second half will allow for hands-on practice with the software. This workshop will be led by Cinemat filmmakers Jonas Kilga (Film & Media Studies, Silliman ‘23) and Annaelise Kennedy (Theater & Performance Studies, Timothy Dwight ‘23+1).

CCAM + Faculty Dialogues are a partnership between CCAM and faculty members from across the university who teach in our spaces. At this event, filmmaker, artist, and Yale faculty member Thomas Allen Harris will present a virtual talk by media artist Philip Mallory Jones. Jones will discuss his pioneering media work and his virtual-reality piece in progress, “Time Machine: Bronzeville Between the World Wars.” The talk will take place as part of Harris’s Yale Film and Media Studies course Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling, cross-listed with African American Studies. This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), Department of Film and Media Studies, and Department of African American Studies.

CCAM + Faculty Dialogues are a partnership between CCAM and faculty members from across the university who teach in our spaces. At this event, composer, bassist, and Yale faculty member Jack Vees will present a talk by musician and photographer Tim Wolf, a musician and photographer who describes his work as “liquid terrains.” Wolf will discuss his creative practice, followed by a performance with Vees. The event will take place as part of Vees’s Yale School of Music course The Twentieth-Century Recital, taught at CCAM.

Join us for a series of workshops presented by our CCAM Studio Fellows, students from across Yale who are developing creative, collaborative projects across disciplines and based at CCAM. On Friday afternoons this March and April, you can connect with a group of fellows, and dive into their creative processes as they share their approaches, interests, and works in progress! On Friday, March 11, CCAM Studio Fellow Synapses will be presented by Maya Foster (Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Justin Allen (MFA Candidate in Sculpture, Yale School of Art), and David Zheng (Psychology and Film Major, Yale College).

Join us for the this series of workshops presented by CCAM and the Cinemat, a Yale undergraduate student organization that promotes education in all aspects of film. Learn to color grade with DaVinci Resolve and bring out the full potential in your footage. This workshop caters to beginners. It is entirely hands-on and will equip you with the skills you need to put a professional finish on any project you are working on! The workshop will be led by Cinemat filmmaker and experienced color gradist Alan Lin (English, Saybrook ‘23+1), and Cinemat filmmaker Evelyn Larson (Earth and Planetary Sciences, TD ‘23).

CCAM presents a talk by architect Christina Ciardullo as part of ULTRA SPACE, our new initiative probing how we see, inhabit, interact with, and understand extreme environments. Christina Ciardullo, AIA is a Senior Architect, partner and founder of the award-winning space architecture firm SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture), as well as a Ph.D. Researcher at the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture. With an undergraduate background in astronomy and philosophy, and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, Christina bridges a career between practice and research at the intersection of the natural sciences and the built environment, designing for a sustainable future for Earth and Space.