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. This round of CCAM Studio Fellow Synapses will be presented by: Cathryn Seibert (Urban Studies major, Yale College), Catherine Alam-Nist (Theater and Performance Studies major, Yale College), Hannah Tjaden (Graphic Design MFA student, Yale School of Art), and Nikki Pet (MM student, Yale School of Music).

For the second event in our third annual Sound Art Series, we are excited to welcome Norman Long!
Norman W. Long’s practice involves walking, listening, improvising, performing, recording, and composing to create environments and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory, place, ecology, culture, race, value, silence, and the invisible.
At this event, Norman will speak with Ross Wightman about his practice, give a performance of his work, and do a Q&A with the audience.

Join Jonas Bers for a one-day CCAM Video Art Workshop, presented by Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) and the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID)!
Jonas Bers is a New York-based media artist working with hand-built and hacked audiovisual systems. Bers’s performances use salvaged scientific apparatus, VHS-era editing machines, surveillance equipment, and military surplus devices as tools to generate both sound and video in real-time.
Following a one-hour presentation covering the basics of video synthesis and a historical context for the project, participants will build, customize, and take home a CHA/V—a micro-modular audiovisual synthesizer based on VGA hacking.
CHA/V (Cheap, Hacky, Audio/Visual) is a simple, inexpensive, DIY alternative to costly and complicated video synthesizers, providing artists and enthusiasts a friendly, low-cost entry into audiovisual synthesis. CHA/V is an ideal entry point into analog video synthesis for electronic musicians, circuit benders, and tinkerers, but is also appropriate for beginners without an electronics background.
This CCAM x CEID Video Art Workshop is curated and produced by Ross Wightman. Special thanks to Jessica Flemming, Joseph Zinter, Kevin Ryan and the CEID team.

Join us for “(un)masked: the world before us,” an exhibition of short films exploring questions of identity, community building, and space making. The films were created during Professor Thomas Allen Harris’s (@thomas_allen_harris) Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling course, taught at CCAM in Spring 2022. The exhibition will feature short films by: Dyuthi Mathews Tharakan (Yale College ‘22), Molly Smith (Yale College ‘25), Alex Belluck (Yale College ‘23), Lukas Flippo (Yale College ‘24), Zia Makhathini (Yale College ‘24), Enyo Adoboe (Yale College ‘23), Cassidy Arrington (Yale College ‘23), Bhasha Chakrabarti (Yale School of Art ‘22), Emily Velez Nelms (Yale School of Architecture ‘24), and Sheri Ofwona (Yale College ‘23). Student Curators: Enyo Adoboe, Lily Canfield (Yale College ‘23), and Sheri Ofwona. Teaching Fellow: Sylvia Ryerson.

Join the Yale University Art Gallery and Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) for a performance by Hawk Henries, introduced by and in conversation with Royce K. Young Wolf.
Hawk Henries is an artist, composer, and flute musician of the Chaubunagungamaug band of Nipmuc. Hawk expertly crafts Eastern Woodlands flutes through ancestral and contemporary techniques. In this musical performance, Hawk presents his craft of flute making and shares his inspiring flute compositions. He utilizes music and storytelling, with a note of humor, to weavea calm, engaging, and thought-provoking experience. His transformative performances create contemplative spaces for unity and meaningful reflection on how we each have the capacity to make change in the world.
Royce K. Young Wolf (Eastern Shoshone, Hidatsa, and Mandan), the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation and Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow, introduces the program and moderates the discussion to follow.
Livestream also available through the Eventbrite page.

Experience an eclectic, electric concert of new, original compositions for performances of chamber music with technology! Yale College composers Sasha Semina, Zacherie Sciamma, Jonathan Weiss, Dani Zanuttini-Frank, and Konrad Kaczmarek’s new pieces will be performed by Yale College performers.

Are you interested in cinematography but struggling to develop your visual eye? In this hands-on technical workshop, we will be breaking down some of our (and your) favorite shots from contemporary film and television and recreating camera and lighting techniques. As a result, you will develop a strong, cohesive visual style for your next project!

GRIP is a dance music panel and performance featuring DJs and artists exploring the intersection of music, community, and visual art. Russell E.L. Butler, SCRAAATCH, and Shyboi are artists whose practices are at the intersection of party, performance, and sound. GRIP is a space of celebration and exchange around sound as a medium and a methodology.

Join Guest Artist Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) and Professor Timothy Snyder for a discussion about art, politics, and war.
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has highlighted issues that linger over the global discourse around post-colonialism, the hydrocarbon economy, art, and the weaponization of data. These have unfolded in an era that has fundamentally pivoted from the 20th-century obsession with grand narrative to a radical, new politics of perception fostered by the rapid adoption and innovation of digital technologies.
Both the United States and the Soviet Union used art as ammunition throughout the 20th century — including Duke Ellington’s jazz, Jackson Pollack’s expressionist works that were sponsored by the CIA, Soviet Realist paintings, and the use of highly edited photographs to erase Stalin’s political opponents. In this discussion, Miller and Professor Snyder will focus on the role that technology and propaganda plays in the context of the current invasion, from social media to deepfakes, from ransomware to Fox News.
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work immerses audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Be part of a climate exhibition at CCAM!
Join Guest Artist Daniel Perlin for a design sprint and exhibition as part of CCAM’s inaugural Climate Bauhaus. Taking cues from Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative fiction novel Ministry of the Future, the workshop will interconnect and explore ideas presented in the book that engage directly with key, critical facets of the climate crisis, including flooding, ice melt, extreme temperatures, and their impact on life on Earth.
After a quick overview, participants will engage in a quick, focused design sprint to collaborate on and create large-scale, ambitious, speculative proposals and prototypes that tackle these issues head-on. The nature of the sprint is to use the time crunch to work with intuition—opening up creative freedom for all participants to think big, speculate, and generate ideas and solutions.
The resulting proposals will be exhibited and installed the next day as part of Climate Bauhaus. Board mediums are open-ended, and we encourage collage, paint, drawing, and any other skills participants bring. Select proposals may be invited to future exhibition, publication, and/or development opportunities.
Climate Bauhaus is an ongoing interdisciplinary project related to climate culture. Through applied research, artistic practice, and participatory experiences, it seeks to spark new ideas for on-planet life. Climate Bauhaus is led by CCAM Director Dana Karwas.

On April 23, 2022, the day after Earth Day, we invite you to CCAM for the opening of Climate Bauhaus. This event introduces traces of the past, present, and future of “climate change” through interdisciplinary work by scientists, artists, and musicians at Yale—and brings it and them together at CCAM. Join us for an exhibition at 6pm, a live set from 6:30–7:30pm, and a projections installation beginning at sunset.

The culminating work of the course Performance and the Moving Image taught by Emily Coates and Joan MacIntosh, This piece is about synthesizes études at the intersection of theater, dance, and moving image that speak to community in the face of planetary crisis.
In Performance and the Moving Image, the boundaries between live and mediated performance explored through the creation of an original work that draws on methods in experimental theater, dance, and video art. Questions concerning live versus mediated bodies, the multiplication of time, space, and perspective through technology, and the development of moving images. The final production includes both a live performance and an art video.

The faculty of the Computing and the Arts program invite you to join us for a year-end concert featuring exciting new music by Michael Gancz (Music), Roxanne Harris (Computer Science and Music major), Sasha Semina (Computing and the Arts major), and Matt Udry (Computing and the Arts major). Their pieces will feature live interactive electronics and live coding.

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, April 29, CCAM Studio Fellow Synapses will be presented by: Osvald Landmark (MFA student, Graphic Design, Yale School of Art), Vignesh Hari Krishnan (M.Arch. student, Yale School of Architecture), and Carlos Blanco (M.Arch. student, Yale School of Architecture).

For the third event our third annual Sound Art Series, we are excited to welcome Andrea Pensado!
Based in the U.S. since 2002, Pensado uses voice and electronics to make her music. She performs extensively in the U.S. and abroad. She also produces Sonorium, an experimental music series based in Salem, MA. At this event, Andrea will speak with Ross Wightman about her practice, give a performance of her work, and do a Q&A with the audience.