Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) is partnering with Currents New Media to bring a Yale student fellow to present their work at the CURRENTS 2025 Art & Technology Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As an ambassador for CCAM, the inaugural CCAM x Currents New Media Fellow will have a unique opportunity to showcase their project to a global audience of media artists and innovators at one of the world’s preeminent new media festivals.

The fellowship will fund travel (within the U.S. to Santa Fe, NM) and housing costs during the festival.

The application is open to all current Yale students, including those graduating in Spring 2025.

Apply at the link below by Sunday, December 15 at 11:59pm ET.

The Fall 2024 CCAM ISOVIST Gallery show, “[HYPERTEXT](HYPERLINK),” is curated by Alvin Ashiatey (Lecturer, Yale School of Art).

It features work by: Chia Amisola (Yale College, 2022), Amy Fang (Yale School of Art, Graphic Design, 2026), Saskia Globig (Yale School of Art, Graphic Design, 2025), Roxanne Harris (Yale College, 2023), Sewon Roy Kim (Yale School of Architecture, 2023), Cezar Mocan (Yale College, 2016), Emily Velez Nelms (Yale School of Architecture, 2024), and Yumeng Zhu (Yale School of Art, Photography, 2025).

On Sunday, December 15, 2024 and Saturday, January 15, 2025, catch “council motivation jogs,” Saskia Globig’s installation, activated by performances at 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm. The performances are evolving improvised responses to a score made by Saskia in collaboration with the performers: Camille Gwise (Yale School of Art, Graphic Design, ‘26), Emily Chan (Yale Institute of Sacred Music ‘25), Soleil Piverger (Yale College ‘27), and Michael Ipsen (Yale Center for British Art).

About the exhibition:

Hypertext has been a foundational concept in how the web operates, connecting relational pages through hyperlinks to create a constellation of interconnected documents. The term “hypertext” was coined by Theodor Nelson, who described it as “non-sequential writing – text that branches and allows choices to the reader.” This concept is evident in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the markup language used for creating websites, where the anchor tag links HTML documents together.

However, hypertext isn’t confined to web or digital interfaces alone. In an interview, Octavia Butler described her idea-generation process as akin to hypertext. She often had several unrelated books open around her house, allowing their ideas to interact, mix, and inspire new thoughts. Butler described this process as a primitive form of hypertext.

Through this node of referential threads and connections, this exhibition brings together work by Yale students and alumni—individuals who are creating experimental works on the web, but also practitioners who invoke the “primitive hypertext” within their practice.

Pictured: “council motivation jogs,” photo by Julia Weston

Each academic year, CCAM sponsors courses from across Yale to develop unique curricular experiences that activate our center’s creative and technical spaces.

Join us for showings of student work from this semester!

The Fall 2024 CCAM Sponsored Courses include:

* ARCH 2222: The Mechanical Eye, taught by Dana Karwas (CCAM Director and Critic, Yale School of Architecture)

* ART 184: 3D Modeling, taught by Alvin Ashiatey (Lecturer, Yale School of Art)

* ART 241: Intro Film Writing and Directing, taught by Sahraa Karimi (Lecturer, Film and Media Studies)

* DRAM 172: Digital Compositing and Creation for Designers and DRAM 244: Advanced Motion Graphics and 3D Content, taught by Joey Moro (Lecturer, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale)

* FILM 455: Documentary Film Workshop, taught by Charles Musser (Professor of American Studies, of Film Studies and of Theater Studies)

* FILM 460: Sound/Image Practice, taught by Leighton Pierce (Visiting Professor, Film and Media Studies)

* FILM 483 (Sections 01 and 02): Advanced Film Writing and Directing, taught by Jonathan Andrews (Lecturer in Art and Film Studies)