Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s

The CCAM Symposium is a biannual, interdisciplinary event that investigates the cultural landscape of our time. As a bridge between the discoveries at CCAM and those around campus and in the larger world, it takes the form of discussions, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and more.

In Spring 2024, the symposium is grounded in the center’s Ultra Space research and will feature:

* Events with guest speakers, including:

• Momoyo Homma, Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation + Arakawa+Gins Tokyo Office

• Takashi Ikegami, Director, Takashi Ikegami Lab + Professor, University of Tokyo

• ST Luk, Project Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation

• Harshita Nedunuri, Transdisciplinary Designer + Researcher, CCAM Ultra Space Research Fellow

• Setareh Samandari, Director + Visual Effects Artist

• Habib Zagarpour, Visual Effects Artist, Bladerunner 2049


* A live performance of Konrad Kaczmarek’s “Studies in Automation: Guitar Quartet”

* The grand opening of ISOVIST—CCAM’s new gallery—with works by leading digital artists, Yale student artists, + others

• Refik Anadol

• Dmitri Cherniak

• Eric De Giuli

• Anna Lucia

• Marcel Schwittlick

• Iskra Velitchkova

* The launch of the inaugural edition of the CCAM Printed Volume!

* Presentations from the symposium Call for Papers:
https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ctHMGdPRxjJkVwy


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Academy-nominated VFX supervisor Habib Zargarpour will conclude the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s. A live demo by Habib, together with director/VFX artist Setareh Samandari, will feature the latest VFX processes. Not to be missed!

• Habib Zargarpour, Visual Effects Artist, Bladerunner 2049

• Setareh Samandari, Director + Visual Effects Artist

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Enter the mind of complexity scientist Takashi Ikegami. Arakawa and Gins’ experimental architecture and Ikegami’s intricate systems for “artificial life” remind us that form and function, space and perception, are not just an art, but a science of living. What can we learn from a human-like robot pretending to be a snake?

• Takashi Ikegami, Director, Takashi Ikegami Lab + Professor, University of Tokyo

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Can architecture help you live forever? At any given point while inside the Mitaka Lofts in Tokyo designed by Arakawa and Gins, you can see a minimum of six colors. Hear how artists, architects, and curators have encountered this multi-sensory experience—and imagine how you would, too.

• Momoyo Homma, Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation + Arakawa+Gins Tokyo Office

• Takashi Ikegami, Director, Takashi Ikegami Lab + Professor, University of Tokyo

• ST Luk, Project Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation

• Harshita Nedunuri, Transdisciplinary Designer + Researcher, CCAM Ultra Space Research Fellow

• Koichi Tsutsui, Lead Architect, Mitaka Lofts

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Join us for lunch and Ultra Space project presentations by CCAM Fellow Kaifeng Wu and CCAM Studio Fellow Wai Hin Wong! This event is part of the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s.

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The premiere concert of “Studies in Automation: Guitar Quartet” by Konrad Kaczmarek, composer, instrument designer, and Yale Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music will launch the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s!

The evening will include a symposium welcome by Dana Karwas, CCAM Director and Critic, Yale School of Architecture, as well as the launch of the new CCAM ISOVIST gallery, with a presentation of the works in its first show “Dimensions of Digitalization,” curated by Karwas and Ben Simon, CCAM Computer Art Fellow. We’ll also reveal the Spring 2023 CCAM Ultra Space Printed Volume, with remarks by Lauren Dubowski, CCAM Assistant Director.
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Admission Information

The symposium is free and open to the public. All events will take place at CCAM (149 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511). No advance registration is required, but RSVP is encouraged. Seating will be first-come, first-served, and room capacity limits will apply.

Open to:
Undergraduate
Faculty
Alumni
Yale Postdoctoral Trainees
Ages 18
Ages 21
General Public
Graduate And Professional
Spouses And Partners
Staff
Youth And Teen

Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s

Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale