Join us for an evening at CCAM with Sigune Hamann, Artist-in-Residence (2024-25), Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University. Hamann will present her installation, “Film-strips panning,” created during her residency with Wu Tsai and newly adapted for the CCAM projection mapping system. Experience the work displayed across CCAM’s facade, visible both from inside the Leeds Studio and on the street (149 York Street), learn about Hamann’s creative practice, and discuss the work among CCAM community members. This event is presented at CCAM in partnership with BrainWorks, Wu Tsai Institute.

Create, discover, and explore—and be part of the CCAM community! CCAM Wednesday Wisdom workshops explore dynamic intersections of the arts and technology, and are designed and taught by our team, along with collaborators from on and off campus.

This workshop, taught by artist and designer Christian Killada (MFA, Design – Projections, David Geffen School of Drama, 2025) invites you to explore projection design and the unique capabilities of the CCAM projection mapping system in our Leeds Studio. The workshop will include the announcement of a guest-curated Open Call, open to the Yale community and the public, for projections projects, to be displayed across the facade of CCAM later this year.

There are more events in the CCAM Wednesday Wisdom series. Come to CCAM on select Wednesday evenings between September and May for creativity, conversation, and community. For more information, visit the Calendar page on the CCAM website.

Create, discover, and explore—and be part of the CCAM community! CCAM Wednesday Wisdom workshops explore dynamic intersections of the arts and technology and are designed and taught by our team, along with collaborators from on and off-campus.

In this workshop, Ross Wightman (CCAM Technical Manager and Lecturer, Yale College) and collaborator Konrad Kaczmarek (Associate Professor Adjunct, Yale Department of Music) invite you to explore Max/MSP—an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software. This software is frequently used in CCAM projects, enabling the connection of various creative inputs and outputs, such as sound, projections, and lighting.

This event will serve as a quick introduction to Max/MSP and will explore creative applications for software and hardware design through Max for Live and RNBO, a new patching environment built to export software with the sound of Max. With RNBO, you can create web experiences, hardware music devices, audio plugins, and new Max objects all from the same patch. And when that’s not enough, RNBO generates source code that you can use however you want.

This workshop is perfect for those who are interested in music production in digital audio workstations, creating their own interactive instruments/installations, and for anyone working at the intersections of computer science and art making.

There are more events in the CCAM Wednesday Wisdom series. Come to CCAM on select Wednesday evenings between September and May for creativity, conversation, and community. For more information, visit the Calendar page on the CCAM website.

Ross Wightman is a sound and media artist from New Jersey. Currently, he serves as a Technical Manager at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) and Curator of the CCAM Sound Art Series. At Yale and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he teaches a variety of media studies, computer music and composition courses, and leads electroacoustic improvisation ensembles. As a sound artist and composer, his work incorporates microtonality, electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building. In his electroacoustic instruments building practice, Ross repurposes and deconstructs found instruments, combining 3D printing, robotics, and machine learning to investigate themes related to performance practice, virtuosity, timbre and resonance. He is a 2025 Artist In Residence at the Watermill Center. Learn more at rosswightman.net

Konrad Kaczmarek is a composer, musician, and instrument designer whose music incorporates live audio processing and improvisation, drawing on his musical and technical background. As a soloist, he has performed at the Sonorities Festival at Queens University in Belfast, The SoundBytes Festival in Halifax NS, Bargemusic, The Stone, Joyce SoHo, the 92nd Street Y, The Chelsea Art Museum, The Flea Theater, and at the Princeton Composers Ensemble.  His compositions have been performed by an eclectic group of performers and ensembles including Cygnus, Crash Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Dither, Janus, Psappha, PLOrk, Sideband, and the NOW Ensemble. He has been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Banff Centre in Canada, and STEIM in The Netherlands. His freelance programming and performing have taken him to The River to River Festival in lower Manhattan (2013), Kunstnernes Hus in Olso, Norway (2009), The New Zealand International Arts Festival (2008), The 2008 Whitney Biennial Performance Series, the Next Wave festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006), “Works and Process” at the Guggenheim (2006), and The Strings of Autumn Festival at the Estate Theater in Prague (2006). Konrad is on the faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University, where he teaches courses in composition, music technology, and instrument design.  He is Co-Director of Yale College New Music, Associate Director of the YalMusT Music Technology Labs, and has a joint appointment as Lecturer in Sound Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He holds degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D. in Music, 2015), University of London, Goldsmiths (M.Mus in Electroacoustic Composition, 2003), and Yale University (B.A. in Music, 2002).  Prior to teaching at Yale, he held teaching positions at The New School University, The College of New Jersey, and Harvestworks Studio in New York. http://konradkaczmarek.com

The Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) invites proposals from Yale students and alums for the Fall 2025 exhibition at the CCAM ISOVIST Gallery, located at our studios at 149 York Street in New Haven.

“I hold it towards you” will be curated by New York-based researcher, writer, and curator Fabiola Alondra. The works will be selected through this call for proposals and by invitation from the curator. The exhibition will open at the CCAM ISOVIST Gallery on October 24, from 6–8 pm. It will remain on view through December 5.

How to Apply:

➢ Proposals for works in any medium (visual art, media, sound, live performance, etc.; either finished or to be created for the exhibition) are invited through Sunday, September 21, at 11:59 pm EDT. Early submissions are encouraged.
➢ Please submit your proposal at this link: https://forms.office.com/r/Vv8RzvsH99
➢ For questions, please contact CCAM Assistant Director Lauren Dubowski: lauren.dubowski@yale.edu

Read more about the exhibition and the curator at the submission link!

Apply to the CCAM Studio Fellowship for 2025–2026!

The CCAM Studio Fellowship invites participants to create original, yearlong projects based at CCAM. Fellows’ interdisciplinary work evolves through discoveries made in the program, working individually or as a collaborative group, and involves partnership between CCAM and another entity.

CCAM offers each Studio Fellowship project:
* funding for project materials,
* meetings with the group of fellows and our team for project mentorship,
* access to CCAM spaces and the CCAM Equipment Checkout, and
* an opportunity to present their work as part of the CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition at the CCAM ISOVIST Gallery on April 2, 2026.

The call for proposals is open to the Yale community and the public. Please note that the fellowship requires regular, in-person involvement at CCAM.

Learn more and apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/Vvm6CGdsGp

Join us for a conversation with Ashley Bernes, the Emmy-nominated VFX supervisor known for Severance—and much more!

This event is a part of the CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours series, open to the Yale community. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join us for these unique discussions between Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor) and invited leaders from the world of film, television, and streaming content. Ask questions about everything from your creative practice as a filmmaker to getting your work out into the world.

CCAM is pleased to be partnering with Ezra Stiles College, which will present a College Tea with Ashley just before the CCAM event. The tea will take place on Monday, September 29 from 4–5pm at the Stiles Head of College House, 9 Tower Parkway. This event is open to the Yale community.

Ashley Bernes is an Emmy-nominated VFX supervisor, 20-year VFX veteran, and a Television Academy VFX peer group and Visual Effects Society voting member. Ashley built a 15-year career at Technicolor’s VFX flagship Moving Picture Company, where he worked as a multi-talented director, creative director and award-winning VFX supervisor in London and LA. He was also instrumental in launching and then establishing MPC’s New York City office in 2011.

Later, having left his vendor role to oversee productions on the client side, his long-form work includes overall VFX Supervisor on Mark Romanek’s collaboration with Fox 21 Television Studios and 6th & Idaho’s “Tales from the Loop” for Amazon Prime Video, which earned Ashley an Emmy nomination for best visual effects. Other episodic work includes PabloLarraín’s “Lisey’s Story” in collaboration with Bad Robot and Apple+, as well as Ben Stiller’s “Severance” in collaboration with Redhour, Apple+, and Endeavor Content, where Ashley served as both VFX Producer and VFX Supervisor. Ashley’s feature experience includes “12Strong,” directed by Nicolai Fuglsig in collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer Films, and a development consulting role on Ben Stiller’s “Bag Man.”

Ashley’s collaboration with Apple+ continued as overall VFX Supervisor on the futuristic Scott Burns anthology series “Extrapolations” in collaboration with Media Res, where he delivered 1600 VFX shots across its eight episodes. Most recently, he has finished up delivering 1000+ VFX shots as overall VFX Supervisor on the eagerly awaited Season 2 of the Apple+ hit “Pachinko,” once again with Media Res.

In advertising, Ashley has collaborated with top-tier directors such as Jonathan Glazer, Noam Murro, John Hillcoat, Shawn Levy, Lance Acord, Joe Pytka, Speck Gordon, Baillie Walsh, and Phil Joanou. He has been Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director on some of the most high-profile VFX advertising projects over the last two decades globally, partnering with Bruno Aveillan for Samsung’s “Billion Colors” film, and multiple films as part of Tiffany & Co.’s ‘Believe in Dreams’ campaign alongside notable directors Francis Lawrence and Mark Romanek. Other projects in his portfolio include work for Mercedes, Playstation, Gillette, IBM, Macy’s, and Sony’s “Paint,” which won a Gold Lion at Cannes in 2006. He has also directed live-action advertising campaigns including Air Wick’s ‘Pure Colors,’ Interactive Brokers’ ‘Corrosive,’ Estee Lauder’s ‘Supreme Bright,’ and a film for US Navy’s ‘Sleep Tight’ campaign.”