Fall 2023 CCAM Symposium: Machine as Medium

As part of the Fall 2023 CCAM Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit, CCAM presents a work-in-progress presentation of I AM ALAN TURING.

The new, experimental opera is collaboratively devised by artists and artificial intelligence, inspired by the legacy of the gay pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing. Exploring the work Turing was doing at the end of his life, the opera’s musical composition is deeply influenced by his theoretical biological research on morphogenesis and phyllotaxis. It features a Turing Fibonacci sunflower harmonic progression—a musical revelation that surprisingly unveils an invariant prime chord.

With Matthew Suttor and team.

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How does the impact of technological change impact the world we live in as it evolves around us? A pioneer of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove uses embodied interface and customized AI to create genre-mashing narratives that ask how this change alters how we invent ourselves. In this talk, she will present projects from her disruptive practice, evolved over years, as she’s produced machines that fuse film, game, experimental theater, robotics, and more to create immersive experiences.

With Toni Dove (Artist).

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Join us for coffee and a curatorial tour of the symposium exhibition. Together, we’ll take an in-depth look at the new “Matter and Spirit Quad” sculpture, manifested from Robert Mallary, as well as films, an audiovisual installation piece, and more. Featured artists will join us to speak about their work in dialogue with the themes of the symposium. The event will feature an Artist Lightning Talk by composer, musician, and instrument designer Konrad Kaczmarek.

With Lauren Dubowski (CCAM Assistant Director), Konrad Kaczmarek (Associate Professor Adjunct in Music, Yale University), and Exhibition Artists: Fulanita (Paloma Izquierdo [CCAM Yale School of Art Postgraduate Fellow] + Kyle Richardson), Rashaad Newsome, Sam Skynner (MFA Student in Projection Design, David Geffen School of Drama), Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and others.

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Come register for the symposium and meet fellow attendees. Interdisciplinary performer/artist and librarian Erin Carney will be present for a special edition of the Arts Library Pop-Up at CCAM. They will offer a curated selection of books related to the symposium—available for check-out by Yale community members!

With Erin Carney (Arts Librarian Drama/Theater/Performance Studies at the Robert B. Haas Arts Library at Yale).

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As part of the Fall 2023 CCAM Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit, CCAM presents a work-in-progress presentation of I AM ALAN TURING.

The new, experimental opera is collaboratively devised by artists and artificial intelligence, inspired by the legacy of the gay pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing. Exploring the work Turing was doing at the end of his life, the opera’s musical composition is deeply influenced by his theoretical biological research on morphogenesis and phyllotaxis. It features a Turing Fibonacci sunflower harmonic progression—a musical revelation that surprisingly unveils an invariant prime chord.

With Matthew Suttor and team.

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Gather in the CCAM Research Gallery for this off-site robot/art adventure. We’ll first head to the Robotics Lab at the Yale School of Architecture to hear from faculty member and robotic fabrication specialist Hakim Hasan. Then, we’ll visit the Yale University Art Gallery, where fellow Joseph Henry will show us Robert Mallary’s 1938 lithograph “Juventud Perdida” (“Lost Youth”).

With Hakim Hasan (Lecturer, Yale School of Architecture) and Joseph Henry (Florence B. Selden Fellow, Yale University Art Gallery).

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Call for Papers presenters from near and far will share their work or work-in-progress around the ideas and questions that have inspired the symposium, from new interpretations of Turing’s legacy to the automaton today. The event will feature an Artist Lightning Talk by Gabriel Winer.

With Gabriel Winer (Artist and CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow) and Call for Papers presenters.

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As part of the Fall 2023 CCAM Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit, this discussion will explore the work of the sculptor and multidiciplinarian Robert Mallary (1917–1997), one of the first American artists to use computing and code in his practice.

Guests working with Mallary Archive and Media, a project developed to share and bring new life to his ideas, will illuminate how Mallary’s use of the machine made creative inspiration tangible. They will also speak about the process and philosophy behind the “Matter and Spirit Quad,” a new sculpture commissioned for the symposium based on the lost computer-generated work “Quad IV” (1969).

With Michael Lanzano (artist and fabricator), Ryan McGahan (designer and filmmaker), Mason Whitehorn Powell (Creative Director, Mallary Archive), and Schmrypto (Director, Mallary Archive).

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Call for Papers presenters from near and far will share their work or work-in-progress around the ideas and questions that have inspired the symposium, from new interpretations of Turing’s legacy to the automaton today. The event will feature an Artist Lightning Talk by Gabriel Winer.

With Gabriel Winer (Artist and CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow) and Call for Papers presenters.

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For more information, please visit the symposium website: www.yalemachine.me


Admission Information

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, 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

Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale