The “Dimensions of Digitalization” exhibition launches the ISOVIST gallery at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale.

In geometry, the isovist is the total space you can see from any point where you are standing. The choice of where to stand, and where to look, is part of your process as a body in space.

Process is also inherent to the prints, weaves, and permutations to explore in “Dimensions of Digitalization.”

Like much of the work produced and presented at CCAM, these processes often involve collaborations across time, media, and cultures:

Iskra Velitchkova’s experience of reading Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris. Dmitri Cherniak’s generative afterimages of pioneering predecessor László Moholy-Nagy. The threads, digital and physical, woven between Anna Lucia and the quilters of Gee’s Bend. Marcel Schwittlick’s drawings with light, based on years and years of gestural recordings.

The algorithmic undergirding of much of the work in the gallery is itself an inherent part of the process, generating unique artworks that are part of a larger whole.

Process is something we might not see, but that we can sense with our full bodies in space, in relationship to the work.

We invite you to do both from your personal isovist in the gallery.

Curated by Dana Karwas, CCAM Director and Critic, Yale School of Architecture & Ben Simon, CCAM Computer Art Fellow

Pictured: Iskra Velitchkova, “ToSolaris #72,” 2022, pigment print on metal

Join us for an introduction to the fellowships available to the filmmakers at Yale.

We will discuss fellowships, what they are, and answer any questions.

This is a discussion hosted by CCAM, led by Jill Carrera with Susan Youssef.

Jill Carrera (she/they) is Senior Associate Director of Fellowships and Funding in the Office of Fellowships. She completed her BA in Theater Studies at Yale University and worked in administrative theater in NYC before joining Yale Undergraduate Admissions in 2018. She helps manage and advise students for various fellowships, namely the Fulbright US Student Grants and the Henry S. Truman Scholarships, and also oversees the ISA process. Jill also advises for the Yale internal summer fellowships under the Common Application. She is a first-year advisor and fellow for Jonathan Edwards College and is passionate about helping students reach their own personal goals.

Susan Youssef (she/her) is Film Advisor at Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. She is a filmmaker who has made three films that can be viewed on Netflix: Habibi, Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf, and Amsterdam to Anatolia. She has a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism from Yale University.

Bill Fontana has been a pioneer of sound art since the 1970s. Using sound as a sculptural medium, he reveals hidden acoustic worlds and transforms the way we perceive the visual and architectural spaces around us. His works have been installed at SFMOMA and across the globe, from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Arc de Triomphe to London’s Millennium Bridge and Big Ben. He has also created radio sound art projects for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR, KQED, the BBC, West German Broadcasting Cologne (WDR), Radio Sweden, Radio France, and Austrian State Radio.

For this event in the CCAM Sound Art Series Fontana will be presenting his work “Silent Echoes: Notre Dame.” Fontana describes this work as a sound sculpture that “makes audible the fact that the bells of Notre Dame are secretly ringing all the time.” Fontana continues: “The sound that the bells are producing is created by their harmonic response to the ambient sounds of Paris that surround Notre Dame, revealing that these bells are giant metal ears.”

CCAM Sound Art Series curator and producer Ross Wightman will collaborate with Fontana to adapt this spatialized audio visual installation to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Notre Dame fires, which occurred on April 19, 2019. The event will feature a demo of the installation, as well as an artist talk by Fontana and a discussion moderated by Wightman.

The CCAM Sound Art Series is centered around the sonic arts in its many forms. It presents a diversity of works by guest artists that investigates sound through the intersections of experimental musical performance, installation art, performance art, and beyond. In addition to live performance and public presentation of sound-based art, open discussions invite the audience to further engage with the featured artists and works.