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 Susan Yousssef (CCAM Film Advisor) and Grammy award-winning guest artist Tom Efinger (Red Hook Post, Brooklyn) is devoted to sound in filmmaking.

After attending Phillips Academy Andover and the University of Vermont, Tom started his sound for film career, in NYC, in the 1990s. He has worked with many notable directors over the years, including Sydney Pollock, Mike Myers, Mark Ruffalo, Ramin Bahrani, and Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, and more recently with Mike Birbiglia, Mira Nair, Larry Fessenden, and Ti West. He now has over 300 credits for sound design, sound supervision, and mixing. Tom works in both documentary and narrative film, video art, TV drama, and music, and is the owner of Red Hook Post Inc. in Brooklyn, New York. Tom is a two-time Emmy nominee and a Grammy winner.

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 a shared dinner. For more information, visit the Calendar page on the CCAM website.

I hold it towards you is curated by New York-based researcher, writer, and curator Fabiola Alondra. The exhibition will explore the enduring power of hands through a selection of objects, images, and practices that draw on art history, anthropology, archaeology, spiritual traditions, and material culture. Artists from diverse disciplines are invited to reflect on this intimate yet vast subject and engage with its rich history.

The opening of I hold it towards you on Friday, October 24 has two parts—please join us for both!

Part 1: 2:00pm to 4:30pm: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (121 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511), Rooms 38 and 39

During this time, a portion of the CCAM exhibition will be on display at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library—featuring Alondra’s curation of relevant historical works from their collection. Don’t miss an opportunity to see these special works on view in dialogue with those on display at ISOVIST. 

Part 2: 6:00pm to 8:00pm, CCAM ISOVIST Gallery (149 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511), First Floor

The main part of the exhibition will then open at the CCAM ISOVIST Gallery. 

It will present paintings, sound, video, sculpture, and more by Yale student and alum artists, including:

• Alvin Ashiatey (MFA – Graphic Design, Yale School of Art, 2021; Lecturer, Yale School of Art) & Mianwei Wang (MFA – Graphic Design, Yale School of Art, 2022)
• Felipe Baeza (MFA – Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, 2018)
• Ann Burke Daly (MFA – Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, 1990) & Marion Belanger (MFA – Photography, Yale School of Art, 1990)
• Siyu Chen (MFA student – Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, 2027)
• Shiyun Deng (MFA – Graphic Design, Yale School of Art, 2025)
• Vignesh Hari Krishnan (M.Arch, Yale School of Architecture, 2022) & Nirmal Kumarasamy (Master of Advanced Architectural Design student, Carnegie Mellon University, 2026)
• Ris Igrec (BA – Film & Media Studies, Yale College, 2023)
• David Wonsik Jung (MFA student – Graphic Design, Yale School of Art, 2026)
• Joy Li (MFA student – Sculpture, Yale School of Art, 2026)
• Edd Ravn (MFA – Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art, 2020)
• Olivia Reavey (MFA student – Photography, Yale School of Art, 2026)
• Montana Simone (MFA student – Sculpture, Yale School of Art, 2027)
• Yuwei Tu (MFA student – Painting/Printmaking, 2026)
• Ann Weathersby (MFA – Photography, Yale School of Art, 2003)
• Jeff Whetstone (MFA – Photography, Yale School of Art, 2001)

The exhibition will also incorporate a presentation of relevant images from collections around the Yale campus, which draw from Alondra’s research at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Peabody Museum.

Part of the CCAM Sound Art Series 5-Year Anniversary 

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. Exploring media, perception, and technology, Negativland’s provocative sound works meet SUE-C’s handmade, real-time video to create an immersive performance that fully activates the CCAM Leeds Studio sound system and projection wall.

For more than four decades, Negativland has redefined experimental media through their culture-jamming practice, exposing the mechanics of misinformation and spectacle. With SUE-C’s live visuals, their work becomes a dense, multi-sensory investigation into how collective belief systems are shaped.

The evening will begin with a conversation between the artists and series curator Ross Wightman (CCAM Technical Manager; Lecturer, Yale College), followed by the performance and a Q&A session with the audience. This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Since 1980, the multimedia collective known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text. Mixing original materials and original music with materials taken from corporate-owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland rearrange these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and “culture jamming” (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement. Their art and media interventions pose both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, ownership, propaganda, power, and perception in the United States of America. Their work is now referenced and taught in many college courses in the US, has been written about and cited in over 150 books and legal journals, and they sometimes lecture about their work in the USA and in Europe.

Sue Slagle, who goes by the stage name SUE-C, is a video and light artist working at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. For the past 20 years, she has created handmade videos and live media performances, traveling extensively in Europe and the US. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video, and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation “instrument,” she synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, handmade papers, fabrics, and miniature lighting effects. She currently works as a Video Designer at Meow Wolf and is a member of the Meow Wolf Workers Collective union.

The CCAM Sound Art Series is dedicated to the sonic arts in their many forms. Founded in 2020 by sound artist and curator Ross Wightman, the series presents a diverse range of guest artists whose work explores sound at the intersections of experimental music, installation, performance, and beyond. Alongside live presentations, the series creates space for open discussion, inviting audiences to engage directly with the artists and their work.