About

The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale sponsors courses from across the university to develop unique curricular experiences that activate the center’s creative and technical spaces.

These may include:

• A short-term collaboration, with the course meeting one to three times for a specific engagement or project, such as an end-of-semester class showing, or
• A semester-long collaboration, with the course meeting regularly at CCAM, and/or
• Access to the CCAM Equipment Checkout.

Application Process

Faculty teaching courses at Yale may email Dr. Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College) to express interest.

The Sponsored Courses for Fall 2024 have been confirmed. For Spring 2025 courses, the last date to express interest is October 21, 2024.

Please note:

• Only CCAM Sponsored Courses will be offered teaching space at the center and/or use of the CCAM Equipment Checkout.
• We will do our best to balance demand and availability.
• CCAM also sponsors courses taught by CCAM team members, which receive priority.
• Courses with a clear proposal to activate CCAM’s creative and technical spaces will receive full consideration.

Collaboration Details

CCAM Sponsored Courses receive:
 

• One one-hour consultation with a CCAM team member(s) to review the course syllabus and develop the scope and goals of the collaboration.
   
• One class visit by a CCAM team member to speak about resources and procedures, i.e. equipment and space use.
  • Please note that we are not available to teach technical sessions, such as camera workshops, or class sessions.
  • We are happy to recommend students to assist with such demonstrations; work-study or other payment is to be provided by the faculty member’s home department.
     
• Course meetings in CCAM’s creative and technical spaces, pending availability and scheduling.
   
• The opportunity to present a showing of student work from the course at CCAM at the end of the semester-long or short-term collaboration.
   
• Additional time, pending availability, in the designated CCAM space(s) for students to work on their assignments or projects associated with the collaboration.
   
• A grant ($100 for short-term collaborations, $400 for semester-long) distributed at the beginning of the collaboration, which may be used to assist with materials for use in the collaboration and/or to support inviting a guest speaker for the course. Purchases can be made by CCAM or transferred to the faculty member’s home department or school for funds distribution.

Available Spaces

The creative and technical spaces available to the CCAM Curriculum in Residence include the:

• CCAM Leeds Studio (a black-box studio equipped with motion-capture, projection-mapping systems, full-room video recording and live-streaming systems)
• CCAM Computer Lab (a classroom offering 10 Mac workstations installed with Adobe Suite, DaVinci Resolve, and other software by request and 6 PC 3D/rendering/immersive development workstations)

Note: The Leeds Studio and the Computer Lab offer a Crestron A/V setup with one large projection screen.

CCAM Sponsored Courses

• AFAM 220/FILM 434: Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling, taught by Thomas Allen Harris (Yale College)

• ARCH 2226: Design Computation, taught by Michael Szivos (Yale School of Architecture)

• ARCH 2238: The Mechanical Artifact, taught by Dana Karwas (Yale School of Architecture)

• ART 241/FILM 355: Intermediate Film Writing and Directing, taught by Jonathan Andrews (Yale College)

• ART 243/FILM 484: Advanced Film Writing and Directing, taught by Jonathan Andrews (Yale College)

• ART 294: Technology and the Promise of Transformation, taught by Alvin Ashiatey (Yale School of Art)

• CDE 570: Humanities, Arts, and Public Health, taught by Judith Lichtman (Yale School of Public Health)

• DRAM 245: Content Pre-Visualizations and Advanced 3D Workflows, taught by Joey Moro (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale)

• DRAM 272: Content Capture and Manipulation for Designers, taught by Joey Moro (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale)

• FILM 456/AMST 464/EVST 464/THST 458/AMST 833: Documentary Film Workshop, taught by Charles Musser (Yale College)

• THST 435: Creativity: Strategies and Practices for Getting Unstuck, taught by Elise Morrison and Mattthew Suttor (Yale College)