CCAM AI Incubator Grants

In 2024, the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) launched our AI Incubator to drive arts-forward artificial intelligence projects led by Yale faculty and staff.

In recent years, CCAM has produced programs, projects, and research that explore the potential of this emerging technology—from community workshops around AI and the arts to an experimental opera about Alan Turing.

The CCAM AI Incubator builds upon this work, and is a complement to AI at Yale, with support from the Office of the Provost and our industry partners Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Grant awards will be announced at CCAM Symposium on February 19, 2025. Awardees will present their work during the CCAM Symposium in February 2026.

2025 Awardees

Intelligent Musical Instrument Design: AI-mediated Sensory-Motor Feedback Mechanisms in Musical Instrument Design

Investigations into embedded computing systems that allow for AI-mediated interactions between performer and instrument.

• Project Lead: Larry Wilen

  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
  • Center for Engineering Innovation and Design

• Konrad Kaczmarek

  • Associate Professor (Adj)
  • Department of Music

• Christina Linsenmeyer

  • Associate Curator
  • Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments
  • Yale School of Music

Musical Gesture & Machine Learning

Designing flexible software tools that connect AI technology to music composition and improvisation.

• Project Lead: Konrad Kaczmarek

  • Associate Professor (Adj)
  • Department of Music

• Michael Gancz

  • XRPeds
  • Department of Pediatrics
  • Yale School of Medicine

AiXit

AiXit is a playful study of how interactions with AI shape shared narratives and social cohesion. Through an interactive game of image-prompted storytelling, AiXit will elicit reflection on the capacity of AI to engage in the quintessentially human act of creative interpretation and our view of AIs that encroach on this ability.

• Project Lead: Roeland Hancock
  • Director of BrainWorks
  • Center for Neurocognition and Behavior
  • Wu Tsai Institute

AI, Art, and Pedagogy: A Framework for Critical Engagement

A faculty-driven incubator fostering critical inquiry into AI’s impact on arts education, culminating in a collaborative framework and critical reader.

• Project Co-Lead: Nontsikelelo Mutiti

  • Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design
  • Yale School of Art

• Project Co-Lead: Alvin Ashiatey

  • Lecturer in Graphic Design
  • Yale School of Art

Addressing Barriers to Hypertension Screening

An AI-driven application incorporating data visualization, aimed at identifying and eliminating barriers to hypertension screening, enhancing accessibility and public health outcomes.

• Project Lead: Judith Lichtman

  • Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
  • Director, Humanities, Arts, and Public Health Practice at Yale (HAPPY) Initiative
  • Yale School of Public Health

• Neal Baer

  • Lecturer
  • Yale School of Public Health

Contact

For questions or additional information, please contact Dr. Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager; Senior Lecturer matthew.suttor@yale.edu

Pictured: Showing of I AM ALAN TURING. Fall 2024 CCAM Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit. CCAM Leeds Studio, November 2024. Photo by JF Monette.