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Erin Carney
Arts Librarian Drama/Theater/Performance Studies at the Robert B. Haas Arts Library at Yale
Erin Carney (they/she) is the Arts Librarian for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Yale University. You can find her in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, where she is delighted to help undergraduate, graduate, and DFA candidates, as well as staff, faculty, and the general public with all things to do with performing arts creative research. After receiving her BFA in Theater from the University of the Arts, Erin was a dancer and theatrical performer based in Philadelphia for more than a decade, where she had the privilege to collaborate with all types of US-based and international multimedia artists. She toured for several years with Enchantment Theatre Company across North America and locally to Philadelphia inner-city schools. After earning her Master in Library and Information Sciences, she pivoted to collaborating with artists through research and using information as inspiration for the arts. When she isn't in the library or walking her dog, she trains as an aerialist on a variety of apparatuses here in Connecticut. If you are interested in investigating how research can inform your creative practice, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Robert Mallary: Materializing Creativity
Michael Lanzano
Artist and Fabricator
Michael Lanzano works as an image maker, builder, and fabricator. He is an undergraduate alumni of Yale (MC02) and is completing an MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Vision, Interaction, and Robotic at Columbia University. Michael has been producing works of art for the past decade in wood, metal, glass, and stone, for motion picture production, architectural installation, and fine artists. He currently works on a 7-axis robot system in Bethlehem, CT with the sculptor Mark Mennin, producing monumental work in stone. They have an exhibition up at the Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and are in preparation for shows at the Long House and Todi Festival. Michael’s academic focus is on human interaction with computers and robots to facilitate digital workflows that are not only precise and efficient, but promote creativity and art that reflects heart and humanity.
Ryan McGahan
Designer and Filmmaker
Ryan McGahan is a designer and film director based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Following his role as art director at This Land Press for six years, he co-founded Well-Told in 2020, a creative office with heart and brains. Well-Told works with institutions in the art, culture, and non-profit spaces by selecting clients who believe in the power of design to create value and meaning in the world. Ryan recently directed his first feature-length film, the award winning documentary, Oaklawn (2022). His design and film practice strives for bold simplicity anchored by intelligence and humanity.
Mason Whitehorn Powell
Creative Director, Mallary Archive
Mason Whitehorn Powell is a freelance journalist and student at Brooklyn Law School. His writing and interviews have appeared in This Land Press, The Tulsa Voice, Oklahoma Today, New Territory, and the Brooklyn Rail, with a focus on art and film criticism, and Indigenous issues. In 2021, Mason joined the Mallary Archive as Creative Director. He conducts research and utilizes the archive to tell the story of Robert Mallary’s life and art. This includes original film projects, publishing, engagement with academia, and exhibitions. By collaborating with artists and community members, he hopes to shed light on technological development in the arts.
Schmrypto
Director, Mallary Archive
Schmrypto is a professional artist and collector who has focused on cryptoart collecting and curation since 2021. In October of that year, he and a business partner successfully located and secured two shipping containers in New Haven, Connecticut that held much of the lifework of multidisciplinary artist Robert Mallary. This find remains one of the largest singular discoveries of early computer art to date. Included are computer-generated sculptures, drawings, and code from the late 1960s until Mallary's death in 1997; although art in the collection reaches back to Mallary's prominent Abstract Expressionist sculptures, and even prints made in Mexico City during the 1930s and childhood drawings. From this wealth of resources that reveal the life of an artist, Schmrypro founded the Mallary Archive and has worked tirelessly to catalog, digitize, and popularize this artwork—and Mallary himself.
American Artist
Lecturer, Yale School of Art
American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video. Artist is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Visual Art and a Creative Capital grantee. They are a former resident of Smack Mellon, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Abrons Art Center, Recess, EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center, Seoul. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Cultured, Artforum, and Art in America. Artist is a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a core faculty member at Yale.
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Gabriel Winer
CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow
Gabriel Winer is a Berlin-based artist. He holds an MPS from ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and a BA from Yale University. As a CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow, he is experimenting with cinema as a live theatrical medium as part of an ongoing interest in the expanded potential of the moving image. Through the fellowship, he will work with collaborators in Berlin and at Yale with the goal to develop a new work and bring it to an audience.
Annabel Castro
Professor in the Cinema & Communications Department, Universidad de Moneterrey
Annabel Castro is a digital media artist. She has received the research-creation grant from the Center for Research, Innovation and Development of the Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (CEIIDA-UNAL), the PBEE grant from the National Foundation for Arts and Culture, and the Object Art 1st prize from the 3rd National Biennale Puebla de los Ángeles in Mexico. In Bolivia, she received the La Paz award from the International Art Biennial SIART, the Open Territories Commission of mARTadero Culture Center, and has served as adviser at their new media theater initiative Yvyrasacha (supported by the International Relief Fund for Organizations in Culture and Education of the German Federal Foreign Office). She has published articles in the academic journals Artnodes, Arte y Políticas de Identidad, and Cultural Geographies. She studied a PhD at DXARTS in University of Washington and a Master of Science specialized in art and technology at Chalmers University of Technology. She is member of REDDES (Multidisciplinary network on Desert Studies) and professor in the Cinema & Communications Department at Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). Her work has been shown in spaces such as Ethnography and Folklore Museum (La Paz), Jardín Borda (Cuernavaca), transmediale festival (Berlin), SIGGRAPH Asia, Stamps Gallery (University of Michigan), motomoto AIR (Kumamoto), and Zonas de contacto: Art History in a Global Network at DHAJ Gallery (Berkeley University/Samuel H. Kress Foundation).
Ivana Dama
MFA Student in Sculpture, Yale School of Art
Ivana Dama is a sound artist currently pursuing a graduate degree in Sculpture at Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture with a degree in Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Ivana's work, which includes audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, investigates the nonverbal expression of traumatic experiences through the lens of sound studies and sonic memories. Her art explores the themes of sound and space at various scales, including the microscopic, architectural, and satellite. Ivana has participated in over 30 group shows and had solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles.
Seth Embry
Doctoral Researcher, Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture, Yale University
Seth Embry is a doctoral researcher at the Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture. He has worked extensively as an architectural designer and educator in New York, most recently teaching ecological design studios and theory seminars in the School of Design at Pratt Institute. His design-theoretical research explores the cultural and spatial products of ecological crisis. His disciplinary project seeks to propose operative design methodologies for the present and for contingent futures, primarily through strategic, tactical, and logistical utilizations of architectural novelty in reinterpreting notions of human ecology that have previously been defined through (often lacking) definitions of defensibility, sustainability, resilience, and adaptation. He is interested in new disciplinary models in pedagogy and practice that foreground ecological thought. He holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the University of Florida.
Meredith Finkelstein
Executive Director and Lecturer
Meredith Finkelstein is a systems poet and herbalist working at the intersection of art and technology with degrees from ITP, University of Chicago, and Arbor Vitae. Her most recent work includes the eye 4 eye machine learning art commission in 2021, an ethical imagination cryptocurrency project in 2022 for Visions 2030, a past steward of Black Sky, a Kate Spade Grant for the New Museum’s NEW INC, and a creative residency at Kickstarter. Her past work has included three award-winning documentaries, the Botmatrix hacktivsm group (and Heddatron robots), and running two venture-funded companies. She teaches on the Computer Science faculty at Fordham University, and is teaching this semester cyber ethics to prisoners as part of the Bard Prison Initiative. She lives in Kingston, NY.
Cole Lewis
Associate Professor in Acting, Toronto Metropolitan University
Cole Lewis (she/her) is a mom and theater artist from St. Catharines, Ontario. She specializes in creating live performance from design ideas, exploring new modes of storytelling, and fusing technologies to the stage. Her practice includes directing, playwriting, and the design of moving image works. She is Co-Artistic Director of Guilty by Association. Twice nominated for Dora Awards, Cole’s practice uses humor, design, and technology to explore notions of violence, expose questions of bias, and unsettle standard conceptions of “truth.” Disparate, divergent, and wide-ranging, Cole’s work questions received ideas about identity, violence, and systems of oppression to explore alternative futures.
Will Hallett
Adjunct Professor, School of Media Studies, New School
Will Hallett is an artist and scholar interested in the continental philosophy of computer science working practically in game design, creative coding, and video art. Will holds a BA in English from Bates College and an MFA in Interactive Media Arts from New York University. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College, Fordham University, The New School, and Westchester Community College. His work has been shown nationally and internationally at the Estonia Academy of Arts and at the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Deleuze Studies; and Movement and Computing conferences.
Smita Krishnaswamy
Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science, Yale University
Smita Krishnaswamy is an Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science. She is affiliated with the applied math program, computational biology program, Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science, and Yale Cancer Center. Her lab works on the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high dimensional high throughput biomedical data. Her focus is on unsupervised machine learning methods, specifically manifold learning and deep learning techniques for detecting structure and patterns in data. She has developed algorithms for non-linear dimensionality reduction and visualization, learning data geometry, denoising, imputation, inference of multi-granular structure, and inference of feature networks from big data. Her group has applied these techniques to many data types such as single cell RNA-sequencing, mass cytometry, electronic health record, and connectomic data from a variety of systems. Specific application areas include immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Smita has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Bjorn Long
Scholar
Bjorn Long is a young interdisciplinary scholar from Boise, Idaho who recently graduated from Columbia University’s Film and Media Studies department, where he studied everything from the formation of political identities to the semiotics of the non-human to the phenomenological effects of interactivity. He presented a work on adapting the culture of distant times in The Green Knight (2021) at a Film Historiography conference and planned and participated in a panel discussion on modern digital games and animation at the 2023 Zoom-In conference. His thesis research project was on the similarity between video games, ritual, and everyday human cognition. He currently works as a Research Assistant with Professor Alison Griffiths, editing her new book and researching the role of place and embodiment in VR works by the Sámi people. Bjorn’s main area of focus is how cultural rituals (like theater, film, and face-to-face micro interactions) influence and are influenced by our identities and beliefs, but he has also been studying the similarities between artificial intelligence, brains, and other forms of non-human cognition. He currently lives in Minneapolis, where he also works as an actor, writer, and educator.
Brian Miller
Lecturer in the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences, University of Michigan
Brian Miller is a lecturer in the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan. He completed a PhD in music theory at Yale in 2020, and previously received degrees in computer engineering and music theory from the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the role of computation in musical theory and practice, and he have published on topics including computer improvisation and the stylistic modeling of jazz, the role of information theory in postwar music theory, and the semiotics of musical algorithms.
Catherine Rehwinkel
Film Researcher
Catherine Rehwinkel, a versatile designer-researcher and film professional based in Brooklyn, specializes in film, VR, and advertising. Her roles include serving as a creative producer for documentary and ethnographic films, a writer-researcher working in VR development, UX/UI, screenwriting, and crafting treatments for film and TV project pitches. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Florida State's Film School and a Master's degree in creative technology from New York University Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Institute of Emerging Media. Her education informs her curiosity, which revolves around the convergence of audience perspective and Hollywood-style filmmaking within a framework of symbolic associations, yielding powerful collective and individual behaviors. This metaphor, relating to the ways in which propaganda functions in various formats, extends to the learning achieved and superstition shaped in Turing-complete machines and the embodied cognition of animals. Catherine's research explores foundational aspects of machine and animal cognition, as well as the philosophy of science. Her master's thesis connected storytelling mechanisms to probability modeling, offering a deep understanding of the underlying dynamics.
John Santomieri
Doctoral and Master’s Student, Integrated Electronic Arts and Architectural Sciences Programs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
John Santomieri is an artist and a doctoral and master’s student in the Integrated Electronic Arts and Architectural Sciences Programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His practice and research is based in electrical media studies, situated technologies, and biosemiotics within EcoArts practices, centered on speculative and conceptual systems that generate counter-visualities of the nonhuman. He approaches this from a professional history of work in horticulture and landscape maintenance, and previous degrees and studies in fine arts, urban studies, futurism, and the question of vegetal agency in collaborative ethnographic media practices.
Shelby Shaw
Writer/Artist
Shelby Shaw is a multidisciplinary writer and artist based in New York, with a focus on objecthood and legacy after death. Her work has been commissioned by or appeared via Yale, Artforum, The Believer, The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), the Brooklyn Rail, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Hyperallergic, Screen Slate, IFC Center, and more, and will be published by Topos Press and ORAL.pub; documentation of her live writing for the 2016 NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 will be in Printed Matter’s forthcoming archive. Since 2015, Shelby was the curatorial programming assistant to the experimental and artists’ moving image section of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, until resigning in 2023 to pursue personal work with objects. She holds an interdisciplinary visual and writing BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013), an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (2022), and was an invited Researcher to the 31st Images Festival in Toronto (2018). Shelby is not on social media and works in objecthood with the antiques and design industry.
Olori Lolade Siyonbola
Founder, NOIR Labs, noirpress, and NOIR FEST
Olori Lolade Siyonbola is a creative intuitive, corporate mystic and liberation technologist who uses interdisciplinary art to help organizations cultivate, amplify and profit from their genius. Through creative intelligence, Olori believes we can build equitable, Liberated futures in which all humans have the opportunity and access to understand, amplify and flourish from their innate gifts and talents. She’s helped teams at Amazon, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Yale and other organizations to cultivate thriving communities focused on innovating for equitable futures.
Meet the Robots! & Lost Youth by Robert Mallary
Hakim Hasan
Lecturer, Yale School of Architecture
Hakim Hasan is a Lecturer at Yale University and a visionary in robotic fabrication and computational design. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Kennesaw State University and a Master of Advanced Studies in Digital Fabrication and Robotics from ETH Zurich, where he developed an innovative process of aggregating soft particles at Gramazio Kohler Research. He then taught at the prestigious Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier, and joined Perkins&Will as a practice-based researcher in 2015. He became a lead researcher for the Building Technology Lab in 2018, focusing on the integration of robotics within the architectural practice. He created the Mobile Robotic Assistant for Architectural Design (MRAAD) platform, a groundbreaking tool that revolutionized the AEC industry. His current research explores on-site robotic construction with top industry partners.
Joseph Henry
Florence B. Selden Fellow, Yale University Art Gallery
Joseph Henry is the Florence B. Selden Fellow in Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery and a PhD Candidate in the art history program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is completing a dissertation on the German Expressionist artists known as "Die Brücke." In addition to his role at Yale, he has received grants and fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and the Mellon Foundation. He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies and a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has published criticism in Artforum, Art in America, and Texte zur Kunst, and an article on Berlin Dada and Vladimir Tatlin is forthcoming in Oxford Art Journal.
Tales Told by Human-Operated Machines
Toni Dove
CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow
Considered a pioneer of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates human-operated instruments that tell stories. Dove’s current project in development, Sunjammer Six: A Tale Told by a Solar Breeze, is a mixed-reality installation that uses proprietary AI to allow characters to interact with multiple audience members. It’s a story about Hypatia, a mathematician assassinated in 415 CE who returns as a furious ghost and encounters a NASA engineer in the future building an off-world power station. Support for the project: Artist in Residence at: Bell Labs E.A.T. Program; Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Digital Media, NYU; Pioneer Works Virtual Environments Lab; grants from NYSCA and NEA. Currently a CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow, Dove's work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada, in print and on radio and TV. Dove was Hirshon Artist/Director in Residence at the New School for Social Research in Media Studies 2014/15 and has received numerous grants and awards including from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, and MediaThe Foundation. She received the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT and a lifetime achievement award from iDMAa. Dove was appointed to the 2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on InformationTechnology and Creativity, National Research Council, USA.
Erin Carney
Arts Librarian Drama/Theater/Performance Studies at the Robert B. Haas Arts Library at Yale
Erin Carney (they/she) is the Arts Librarian for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Yale University. You can find her in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, where she is delighted to help undergraduate, graduate, and DFA candidates, as well as staff, faculty, and the general public with all things to do with performing arts creative research. After receiving her BFA in Theater from the University of the Arts, Erin was a dancer and theatrical performer based in Philadelphia for more than a decade, where she had the privilege to collaborate with all types of US-based and international multimedia artists. She toured for several years with Enchantment Theatre Company across North America and locally to Philadelphia inner-city schools. After earning her Master in Library and Information Sciences, she pivoted to collaborating with artists through research and using information as inspiration for the arts. When she isn't in the library or walking her dog, she trains as an aerialist on a variety of apparatuses here in Connecticut. If you are interested in investigating how research can inform your creative practice, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Robert Mallary: Materializing Creativity
Michael Lanzano
Artist and Fabricator
Michael Lanzano works as an image maker, builder, and fabricator. He is an undergraduate alumni of Yale (MC02) and is completing an MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Vision, Interaction, and Robotic at Columbia University. Michael has been producing works of art for the past decade in wood, metal, glass, and stone, for motion picture production, architectural installation, and fine artists. He currently works on a 7-axis robot system in Bethlehem, CT with the sculptor Mark Mennin, producing monumental work in stone. They have an exhibition up at the Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and are in preparation for shows at the Long House and Todi Festival. Michael’s academic focus is on human interaction with computers and robots to facilitate digital workflows that are not only precise and efficient, but promote creativity and art that reflects heart and humanity.
Ryan McGahan
Designer and Filmmaker
Ryan McGahan is a designer and film director based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Following his role as art director at This Land Press for six years, he co-founded Well-Told in 2020, a creative office with heart and brains. Well-Told works with institutions in the art, culture, and non-profit spaces by selecting clients who believe in the power of design to create value and meaning in the world. Ryan recently directed his first feature-length film, the award winning documentary, Oaklawn (2022). His design and film practice strives for bold simplicity anchored by intelligence and humanity.
Mason Whitehorn Powell
Creative Director, Mallary Archive
Mason Whitehorn Powell is a freelance journalist and student at Brooklyn Law School. His writing and interviews have appeared in This Land Press, The Tulsa Voice, Oklahoma Today, New Territory, and the Brooklyn Rail, with a focus on art and film criticism, and Indigenous issues. In 2021, Mason joined the Mallary Archive as Creative Director. He conducts research and utilizes the archive to tell the story of Robert Mallary’s life and art. This includes original film projects, publishing, engagement with academia, and exhibitions. By collaborating with artists and community members, he hopes to shed light on technological development in the arts.
Schmrypto
Director, Mallary Archive
Schmrypto is a professional artist and collector who has focused on cryptoart collecting and curation since 2021. In October of that year, he and a business partner successfully located and secured two shipping containers in New Haven, Connecticut that held much of the lifework of multidisciplinary artist Robert Mallary. This find remains one of the largest singular discoveries of early computer art to date. Included are computer-generated sculptures, drawings, and code from the late 1960s until Mallary's death in 1997; although art in the collection reaches back to Mallary's prominent Abstract Expressionist sculptures, and even prints made in Mexico City during the 1930s and childhood drawings. From this wealth of resources that reveal the life of an artist, Schmrypro founded the Mallary Archive and has worked tirelessly to catalog, digitize, and popularize this artwork—and Mallary himself.
American Artist
Lecturer, Yale School of Art
American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video. Artist is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Visual Art and a Creative Capital grantee. They are a former resident of Smack Mellon, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Abrons Art Center, Recess, EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center, Seoul. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Cultured, Artforum, and Art in America. Artist is a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a core faculty member at Yale.
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Gabriel Winer
CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow
Gabriel Winer is a Berlin-based artist. He holds an MPS from ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and a BA from Yale University. As a CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow, he is experimenting with cinema as a live theatrical medium as part of an ongoing interest in the expanded potential of the moving image. Through the fellowship, he will work with collaborators in Berlin and at Yale with the goal to develop a new work and bring it to an audience.
Annabel Castro
Professor in the Cinema & Communications Department, Universidad de Moneterrey
Annabel Castro is a digital media artist. She has received the research-creation grant from the Center for Research, Innovation and Development of the Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (CEIIDA-UNAL), the PBEE grant from the National Foundation for Arts and Culture, and the Object Art 1st prize from the 3rd National Biennale Puebla de los Ángeles in Mexico. In Bolivia, she received the La Paz award from the International Art Biennial SIART, the Open Territories Commission of mARTadero Culture Center, and has served as adviser at their new media theater initiative Yvyrasacha (supported by the International Relief Fund for Organizations in Culture and Education of the German Federal Foreign Office). She has published articles in the academic journals Artnodes, Arte y Políticas de Identidad, and Cultural Geographies. She studied a PhD at DXARTS in University of Washington and a Master of Science specialized in art and technology at Chalmers University of Technology. She is member of REDDES (Multidisciplinary network on Desert Studies) and professor in the Cinema & Communications Department at Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). Her work has been shown in spaces such as Ethnography and Folklore Museum (La Paz), Jardín Borda (Cuernavaca), transmediale festival (Berlin), SIGGRAPH Asia, Stamps Gallery (University of Michigan), motomoto AIR (Kumamoto), and Zonas de contacto: Art History in a Global Network at DHAJ Gallery (Berkeley University/Samuel H. Kress Foundation).
Ivana Dama
MFA Student in Sculpture, Yale School of Art
Ivana Dama is a sound artist currently pursuing a graduate degree in Sculpture at Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture with a degree in Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Ivana's work, which includes audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, investigates the nonverbal expression of traumatic experiences through the lens of sound studies and sonic memories. Her art explores the themes of sound and space at various scales, including the microscopic, architectural, and satellite. Ivana has participated in over 30 group shows and had solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles.
Seth Embry
Doctoral Researcher, Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture, Yale University
Seth Embry is a doctoral researcher at the Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture. He has worked extensively as an architectural designer and educator in New York, most recently teaching ecological design studios and theory seminars in the School of Design at Pratt Institute. His design-theoretical research explores the cultural and spatial products of ecological crisis. His disciplinary project seeks to propose operative design methodologies for the present and for contingent futures, primarily through strategic, tactical, and logistical utilizations of architectural novelty in reinterpreting notions of human ecology that have previously been defined through (often lacking) definitions of defensibility, sustainability, resilience, and adaptation. He is interested in new disciplinary models in pedagogy and practice that foreground ecological thought. He holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the University of Florida.
Meredith Finkelstein
Executive Director and Lecturer
Meredith Finkelstein is a systems poet and herbalist working at the intersection of art and technology with degrees from ITP, University of Chicago, and Arbor Vitae. Her most recent work includes the eye 4 eye machine learning art commission in 2021, an ethical imagination cryptocurrency project in 2022 for Visions 2030, a past steward of Black Sky, a Kate Spade Grant for the New Museum’s NEW INC, and a creative residency at Kickstarter. Her past work has included three award-winning documentaries, the Botmatrix hacktivsm group (and Heddatron robots), and running two venture-funded companies. She teaches on the Computer Science faculty at Fordham University, and is teaching this semester cyber ethics to prisoners as part of the Bard Prison Initiative. She lives in Kingston, NY.
Cole Lewis
Associate Professor in Acting, Toronto Metropolitan University
Cole Lewis (she/her) is a mom and theater artist from St. Catharines, Ontario. She specializes in creating live performance from design ideas, exploring new modes of storytelling, and fusing technologies to the stage. Her practice includes directing, playwriting, and the design of moving image works. She is Co-Artistic Director of Guilty by Association. Twice nominated for Dora Awards, Cole’s practice uses humor, design, and technology to explore notions of violence, expose questions of bias, and unsettle standard conceptions of “truth.” Disparate, divergent, and wide-ranging, Cole’s work questions received ideas about identity, violence, and systems of oppression to explore alternative futures.
Will Hallett
Adjunct Professor, School of Media Studies, New School
Will Hallett is an artist and scholar interested in the continental philosophy of computer science working practically in game design, creative coding, and video art. Will holds a BA in English from Bates College and an MFA in Interactive Media Arts from New York University. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College, Fordham University, The New School, and Westchester Community College. His work has been shown nationally and internationally at the Estonia Academy of Arts and at the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Deleuze Studies; and Movement and Computing conferences.
Smita Krishnaswamy
Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science, Yale University
Smita Krishnaswamy is an Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science. She is affiliated with the applied math program, computational biology program, Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science, and Yale Cancer Center. Her lab works on the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high dimensional high throughput biomedical data. Her focus is on unsupervised machine learning methods, specifically manifold learning and deep learning techniques for detecting structure and patterns in data. She has developed algorithms for non-linear dimensionality reduction and visualization, learning data geometry, denoising, imputation, inference of multi-granular structure, and inference of feature networks from big data. Her group has applied these techniques to many data types such as single cell RNA-sequencing, mass cytometry, electronic health record, and connectomic data from a variety of systems. Specific application areas include immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Smita has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Bjorn Long
Scholar
Bjorn Long is a young interdisciplinary scholar from Boise, Idaho who recently graduated from Columbia University’s Film and Media Studies department, where he studied everything from the formation of political identities to the semiotics of the non-human to the phenomenological effects of interactivity. He presented a work on adapting the culture of distant times in The Green Knight (2021) at a Film Historiography conference and planned and participated in a panel discussion on modern digital games and animation at the 2023 Zoom-In conference. His thesis research project was on the similarity between video games, ritual, and everyday human cognition. He currently works as a Research Assistant with Professor Alison Griffiths, editing her new book and researching the role of place and embodiment in VR works by the Sámi people. Bjorn’s main area of focus is how cultural rituals (like theater, film, and face-to-face micro interactions) influence and are influenced by our identities and beliefs, but he has also been studying the similarities between artificial intelligence, brains, and other forms of non-human cognition. He currently lives in Minneapolis, where he also works as an actor, writer, and educator.
Brian Miller
Lecturer in the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences, University of Michigan
Brian Miller is a lecturer in the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan. He completed a PhD in music theory at Yale in 2020, and previously received degrees in computer engineering and music theory from the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the role of computation in musical theory and practice, and he have published on topics including computer improvisation and the stylistic modeling of jazz, the role of information theory in postwar music theory, and the semiotics of musical algorithms.
Catherine Rehwinkel
Film Researcher
Catherine Rehwinkel, a versatile designer-researcher and film professional based in Brooklyn, specializes in film, VR, and advertising. Her roles include serving as a creative producer for documentary and ethnographic films, a writer-researcher working in VR development, UX/UI, screenwriting, and crafting treatments for film and TV project pitches. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Florida State's Film School and a Master's degree in creative technology from New York University Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Institute of Emerging Media. Her education informs her curiosity, which revolves around the convergence of audience perspective and Hollywood-style filmmaking within a framework of symbolic associations, yielding powerful collective and individual behaviors. This metaphor, relating to the ways in which propaganda functions in various formats, extends to the learning achieved and superstition shaped in Turing-complete machines and the embodied cognition of animals. Catherine's research explores foundational aspects of machine and animal cognition, as well as the philosophy of science. Her master's thesis connected storytelling mechanisms to probability modeling, offering a deep understanding of the underlying dynamics.
John Santomieri
Doctoral and Master’s Student, Integrated Electronic Arts and Architectural Sciences Programs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
John Santomieri is an artist and a doctoral and master’s student in the Integrated Electronic Arts and Architectural Sciences Programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His practice and research is based in electrical media studies, situated technologies, and biosemiotics within EcoArts practices, centered on speculative and conceptual systems that generate counter-visualities of the nonhuman. He approaches this from a professional history of work in horticulture and landscape maintenance, and previous degrees and studies in fine arts, urban studies, futurism, and the question of vegetal agency in collaborative ethnographic media practices.
Shelby Shaw
Writer/Artist
Shelby Shaw is a multidisciplinary writer and artist based in New York, with a focus on objecthood and legacy after death. Her work has been commissioned by or appeared via Yale, Artforum, The Believer, The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), the Brooklyn Rail, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Hyperallergic, Screen Slate, IFC Center, and more, and will be published by Topos Press and ORAL.pub; documentation of her live writing for the 2016 NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 will be in Printed Matter’s forthcoming archive. Since 2015, Shelby was the curatorial programming assistant to the experimental and artists’ moving image section of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, until resigning in 2023 to pursue personal work with objects. She holds an interdisciplinary visual and writing BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013), an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (2022), and was an invited Researcher to the 31st Images Festival in Toronto (2018). Shelby is not on social media and works in objecthood with the antiques and design industry.
Olori Lolade Siyonbola
Founder, NOIR Labs, noirpress, and NOIR FEST
Olori Lolade Siyonbola is a creative intuitive, corporate mystic and liberation technologist who uses interdisciplinary art to help organizations cultivate, amplify and profit from their genius. Through creative intelligence, Olori believes we can build equitable, Liberated futures in which all humans have the opportunity and access to understand, amplify and flourish from their innate gifts and talents. She’s helped teams at Amazon, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Yale and other organizations to cultivate thriving communities focused on innovating for equitable futures.
Meet the Robots! & Lost Youth by Robert Mallary
Hakim Hasan
Lecturer, Yale School of Architecture
Hakim Hasan is a Lecturer at Yale University and a visionary in robotic fabrication and computational design. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Kennesaw State University and a Master of Advanced Studies in Digital Fabrication and Robotics from ETH Zurich, where he developed an innovative process of aggregating soft particles at Gramazio Kohler Research. He then taught at the prestigious Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier, and joined Perkins&Will as a practice-based researcher in 2015. He became a lead researcher for the Building Technology Lab in 2018, focusing on the integration of robotics within the architectural practice. He created the Mobile Robotic Assistant for Architectural Design (MRAAD) platform, a groundbreaking tool that revolutionized the AEC industry. His current research explores on-site robotic construction with top industry partners.
Joseph Henry
Florence B. Selden Fellow, Yale University Art Gallery
Joseph Henry is the Florence B. Selden Fellow in Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery and a PhD Candidate in the art history program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is completing a dissertation on the German Expressionist artists known as "Die Brücke." In addition to his role at Yale, he has received grants and fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and the Mellon Foundation. He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies and a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has published criticism in Artforum, Art in America, and Texte zur Kunst, and an article on Berlin Dada and Vladimir Tatlin is forthcoming in Oxford Art Journal.
Tales Told by Human-Operated Machines
Toni Dove
CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow
Considered a pioneer of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates human-operated instruments that tell stories. Dove’s current project in development, Sunjammer Six: A Tale Told by a Solar Breeze, is a mixed-reality installation that uses proprietary AI to allow characters to interact with multiple audience members. It’s a story about Hypatia, a mathematician assassinated in 415 CE who returns as a furious ghost and encounters a NASA engineer in the future building an off-world power station. Support for the project: Artist in Residence at: Bell Labs E.A.T. Program; Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Digital Media, NYU; Pioneer Works Virtual Environments Lab; grants from NYSCA and NEA. Currently a CCAM Machine as Medium Fellow, Dove's work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada, in print and on radio and TV. Dove was Hirshon Artist/Director in Residence at the New School for Social Research in Media Studies 2014/15 and has received numerous grants and awards including from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, and MediaThe Foundation. She received the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT and a lifetime achievement award from iDMAa. Dove was appointed to the 2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on InformationTechnology and Creativity, National Research Council, USA.
Symposium Exhibition Tour
Lauren Dubowski
CCAM Assistant Director
Lauren Dubowski (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary creative producer. With the CCAM team, she collaborates on the curation, development, and implementation of the center’s programs and projects. Lauren was previously based in Poland, where she worked with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Kinhouse Studio, and the Łodź Film School vnLab, as well as Ado Ato Pictures (Netherlands/USA). Also a writer and translator, Lauren holds a DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She was a Fulbright fellow to Poland and a Luce Scholar in Indonesia.
Konrad Kaczmarek
Associate Professor (Adjunct) in Music, Yale University
Konrad Kaczmarek is a composer, musician, and instrument designer whose music incorporates live audio processing and improvisation, drawing on his musical and technical background. His compositions have been performed by an eclectic group of performers and ensembles including Cygnus, Crash Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Dither, Janus, Psappha, PLOrk, Sideband, and the NOW Ensemble. His freelance programming and performing have taken him to The River to River Festival in Lower Manhattan (2013), Kunstnernes Hus in Olso, Norway (2009), the New Zealand International Arts Festival (2008), the 2008 Whitney Biennial Performance Series, the Next Wave festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006), “Works and Process” at the Guggenheim (2006), and The Strings of Autumn Festival at the Estate Theater in Prague (2006). Konrad is on the faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University, where he teaches courses in composition, music technology, and instrument design. He is Co-Director of Yale College New Music, Associate Director of the YalMusT Music Technology Labs, and has a joint appointment as Lecturer in Sound Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He holds degrees from Princeton University (PhD in Music, 2015), the University of London, Goldsmiths (MMus in Electroacoustic Composition, 2003), and Yale University (BA in Music, 2002).
Jeeu Sarah Kim
Artist
Jeeu Sarah Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer based in Honolulu and Seoul. She is a recent graduate of the MArch II Post-Professional program at the Yale School of Architecture, where she has experience as a teaching fellow, a CCAM postgraduate fellow, and a coordinating editor for Paprika! She received her bachelor's in architecture with a concentration in visual studies at Cornell University. Professionally, she worked at Toyo Ito Architects & Associates in Tokyo, Dean Sakamoto Architects in Honolulu, CL3 Architects in Hong Kong, and BCHO Architects in Seoul. Her work has been exhibited at the Autostadt Museum (Germany, 2023), Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul, 2023), Yale North Gallery (New Haven, 2022), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, 2022), MMCA (Seoul, 2021), and SCAI The Bathhouse (Tokyo, 2017).
Rashaad Newsome
Inaugural Artist Fellow in The Racial Reckoning in Art & Performance at Yale
Rashaad Newsome’s work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film & video, animation, photography, music, writing, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a divergent field that mirrors the intersectionality of their lived experience. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, they pull from the world of advertising, the internet, art history, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between social practice and abstraction. Newsome holds a 2023 Doctoral degree in Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut and a 2001 BFA in Art History from Tulane University. Rashaad has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including The Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), The National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), The Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), MoMAPS1 (NYC), Museum of the African Diaspora (SF, CA), SFMOMA (CA), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA), and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). Rashaad’s many honors and awards for his work include a 2023 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut; 2023 ITVS Documentary Film Funding; SF Dance Film Festival Award; 2022 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award For Computer Animation; The 2022 NEWFEST Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award; and a 2022 Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator and Outstanding Visual Design.
Mike Picos
MFA Student, Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art
Mike Picos is an artist currently living and working in New Haven, CT. He received a BFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and an MAT in Art Education from Queens College, CUNY. He is currently a second-year MFA student in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.
Sam Skynner
MFA Student, Projection Design, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
Sam Skynner is a Canadian designer, educator, and researcher currently located in New Haven, CT. Her work and research are interdisciplinary; she is interested in film, theater, dance, installation, and archive. Her practice centers around the exploration of light and its ability to transform people and space. She is interested in exploring new media techniques while also utilizing antiquated technologies in order to create a dialogue between the two. She is currently an MFA Design candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and has been a Studio Fellow at CCAM and a Teaching Fellow in the Yale Film and Media Studies program. In Summer 2023, Sam held a fellowship at the Beinecke library researching Technology, Experimentation and Theatrical Consciousness in the work of Mary Ellen Bute.
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Associate Professor of AI and the Arts, University of Florida
Amelia Winger-Bearskin (MFA, University of Texas) is an artist who empowers people to leverage bleeding-edge technology to effect positive change in the world. She is an Innovation Fellow at the Land Acknowledgement Lab for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture: Honor Native Land Initiative. She founded the project Wampum.Codes, which is both an award-winning podcast and ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. She continued her research in 2021 at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence, made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning. In 2019, she was an invited presenter to His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, at his world headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a MacArthur/Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360-video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program). IDEA New Rochelle, the non-profit she founded in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 $1 Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayors Challenge for their VR/AR citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. In 2018, she also was awarded the 100k Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project from Engadget and Verizon Media. Winger-Bearskin is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.
Kaifeng Wu
CCAM Fellow
Kaifeng Wu 吴凯风 is interested in the daily rituals, movements, and experiences of the human body in time and space. He was trained as an architect, but is incessantly curious about the intersection of a broad range of mediums, materials, and disciplines. In a critical response to the radical technological reconstitution of culture, politics, and society into a new digital reality, his work proposes a timeless way of thinking about our virtual future in connection to the physical, the material, and the body. Wu received his BA and Master of Architecture degrees from Yale University. In 2021, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Goethe Institut. In 2022, his winning design for the Ecological Living Module was presented at the United Nations Environment Assembly. His interactive installations have opened at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery (2022); and Yale CCAM (2023).
Alan Turing and the Patterns of Life
Matthew Suttor
CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College
New Zealand-born composer Matthew Suttor has taught at Yale University since 1999, first in the Department of Music and, since 2002, at the School of Drama. He is also affiliate faculty at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale (CCAM). Suttor’s work in opera and dance includes Don Juan in Prague, in collaboration with director David Chambers, for the Bard SummerScape Festival and revised for the Mozart Prague Festival, the Guggenheim Works and Process series, and the BAM Next Wave Festival. I Find Comfort in Thunder for the Folkwang Tanzstudio, Essen, toured Germany, and his opera, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, premiered at the International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand, and was broadcast by Radio New Zealand. Concert works, installations, and television scores include Syntagma, commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, La Prose du Transsibérien, for narrator and chamber ensemble, and HxWxL, both commissioned by the Beinecke Library. The Eastman School of Music commissioned Buntpapier, and he composed the score for Zoomslide’s television series Real Pasifik. Yale Repertory Theatre productions include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, Arcadia, and An Enemy of the People. A Fulbright Scholar, Suttor received a doctorate in composition from Columbia University.
Theodore Kim
Associate Professor in Computer Science, Yale University
Theodore Kim is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Yale University, where he investigates biomechanical solids, fluid dynamics, and topics in geometry. Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios. He received a PhD from the University of North Carolina in 2006, and a BS from Cornell University in 2001. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, multiple Best Paper awards, and a Scientific and Technical Academy Award. His algorithms have appeared in over 20 films, and he has screen credits for Cars 3, Coco, Incredibles 2, and Toy Story 4. He was recently awarded a Technical Achievement Academy Award.
Smita Krishnaswamy
Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science, Yale University
Smita Krishnaswamy is an Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science. She is affiliated with the applied math program, computational biology program, Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science, and Yale Cancer Center. Her lab works on the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high dimensional high throughput biomedical data. Her focus is on unsupervised machine learning methods, specifically manifold learning and deep learning techniques for detecting structure and patterns in data. She has developed algorithms for non-linear dimensionality reduction and visualization, learning data geometry, denoising, imputation, inference of multi-granular structure, and inference of feature networks from big data. Her group has applied these techniques to many data types such as single cell RNA-sequencing, mass cytometry, electronic health record, and connectomic data from a variety of systems. Specific application areas include immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Smita has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Richard Prum
William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Professor Richard Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Professor Prum is an evolutionary ornithologist with broad interests in avian biology. He has done research on diverse topics, including avian phylogenetics, behavioral evolution, feather evolution and development, sexual selection, sexual conflict, aesthetic evolution, avian color vision, avian structural colors and pigments, avian mimicry, and the theropod dinosaur origin of birds. His book The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us (Doubleday 2017) was named a Top Ten Book of the Year by the New York Times, and was a Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. From 2012–2017, he served as the Director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities at Yale, the initiative aims to foster communication, mutual understanding, collaborative research and teaching among diverse scientific and humanistic disciplines.
I AM ALAN TURING
Matthew Suttor
CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College
New Zealand-born composer Matthew Suttor has taught at Yale University since 1999, first in the Department of Music and, since 2002, at the School of Drama. He is also affiliate faculty at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale (CCAM). Suttor’s work in opera and dance includes Don Juan in Prague, in collaboration with director David Chambers, for the Bard SummerScape Festival and revised for the Mozart Prague Festival, the Guggenheim Works and Process series, and the BAM Next Wave Festival. I Find Comfort in Thunder for the Folkwang Tanzstudio, Essen, toured Germany, and his opera, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, premiered at the International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand, and was broadcast by Radio New Zealand. Concert works, installations, and television scores include Syntagma, commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, La Prose du Transsibérien, for narrator and chamber ensemble, and HxWxL, both commissioned by the Beinecke Library. The Eastman School of Music commissioned Buntpapier, and he composed the score for Zoomslide’s television series Real Pasifik. Yale Repertory Theatre productions include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, Arcadia, and An Enemy of the People. A Fulbright Scholar, Suttor received a doctorate in composition from Columbia University.
Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Creative Team
Liam Bellman-Sharpe is an Australian composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, and baritone. Working across disciplines, he specializes in designing the software tools and sound systems to create sonic environments.
Sola Fadiran
Creative Team
Sola Fadiran Is a Nigerian-American actor, singer, and writer. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut this year in Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater. He has performed as a soloist and artist with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Isauro Martinez, Cincinnati Opera, Orchestra New England, Columbia Orchestra, Utah Festival Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center New Work Commission, as well as the Yale Schola Cantorum, among others.
Hugh Farrell
Creative Team
Hugh Farrell is an Irish dramaturg, producer, and Head of Cultural Affairs for the Irish Embassy in Paris. His work imagines new ways for audiences to interact with art, technology and the environment.
Frederick Kennedy
Creative Team
Frederick Kennedy is a Canadian-American drummer, composer, and sound designer whose work explores the intersection of music improvisation and collaborative theatermarking. He is Assistant Professor of Sound Design and Composition at University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre Arts & Dance.
Tyler Kieffer
Creative Team
Tyler Kieffer is a sound designer whose work explores the power of sound to transform our perception of space. He is associate professor of sound design at Louisiana State University.
Madeline Pages
Creative Team
Madeline Pages is an American dramaturg and scholar whose research bridges the fields of performing arts, technology, and media theory. Her current research interests include the historical use of performance as a tool for marketing scientific innovation.
Jean François Monette
Creative Team
Jean-François Monette is a Canadian director, screenwriter and producer. His body of work explores themes of representation and sexual identity.
Emily Reilly
Creative Team
Emily Reilly is a British/Irish performance maker and dramaturg working across theatre, film and dance. Emily is Co-Artistic Director of HORSE Performance Company.
Dakota Stipp
Creative Team
Dakota Stipp is an entrepreneur, software developer, interdisciplinary designer, and composer who develops new applications for spatial and sensor technologies in performances and exhibitions. He is CEO of Amuse Technologies, a startup in the arts and culture space.
Wladimiro A. Woyno R.
Creative Team
Wladimiro A. Woyno R. is a Colombian visual designer whose work focuses on adapting new technologies for live performance. He is Assistant Professor at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts in Theatre Design, Vancouver.
Kino Alvarez
Creative Team
Kino Alvarez is an Audio Engineer with an immense working knowledge relating to sound design, lighting design and audio engineering.
Max Monnig
Creative Team
Max Monnig is a fourth-year acting student at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he has appeared in Ghosts, The Winter’s Tale, and The Misanthrope. He is very thankful to be a part of this beautiful project.
Aura Michelle
Creative Team
Aura Michelle is a multi-hyphenate artist from Canada and second-year MFA candidate in Stage Management at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her passion lies in new plays and projects, music, dance, and collaborative performance creation.
Tyler Schroeder
Creative Team
Gene Stenger is a professional singer, and Bach specialist, who as a tenor performs as both a soloist with symphony orchestras as well as a chamber ensemble musician with various organizations across the country. He currently resides in New Haven, where he serves as instructor of voice at Yale.
Matthew Harrison
Conductor
Matthew Harrison is a multifaceted musician with degrees in piano and voice, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in choral conducting.
Sharon Ahn
Chorus
is a songwriter/composer, performer, keyboard instrumentalist (piano, carillon, organ), music tech enthusiast, and music director pursuing a degree in Music at Yale College. Singer on occasion: previous groups include the Whiffenpoofs and the Yale Glee Club.
Annabel Beatty
Chorus
Annabel Beatty is a soprano who has been praised for her silvery tone quality. She studies with Maggie Lieberman and is looking forward to making her Yale theatrical debut.
Benjamin Beckman
Chorus
Benjamin Beckman is a composer, conductor, pianist, and singer who sings regularly in the Yale Schola Cantorum and in choirs around New Haven. His undergraduate thesis in composition—Passage, a 70-minute chamber opera—won Yale's 2023 Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for most outstanding thesis submitted in the music major.
Shane Francis
Chorus
Shane Francis is a well-rounded vocalist who recently moved to Connecticut from New York. A graduate from The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in 2018,they are currently singing under the baton of Dr. Felicia Barber in the Yale Camerata. They are also excited to continue discovering the music community in New Haven!
Eduardo Pagliaro-Haque
Chorus
Eduardo Pagliaro-Haque is an avid sing-anywhere-anytime vocalist, is passionate about the sounds and structure of language. A walk down the street with him will almost always result in an unsolicited song and a quote from you for his notebook.
Mae McDonnell
Chorus
Mae McDonnell is an emerging soprano studying with Maggie Lieberman. Mae has performed with choirs at Yale, Eastman, and UConn, and is thrilled to be a part of this creative process.
Gene Stenger
Chorus
Gene Stenger is a professional singer, and Bach specialist, who as a tenor performs as both a soloist with symphony orchestras as well as a chamber ensemble musician with various organizations across the country. He currently resides in New Haven, where he serves as instructor of voice at Yale.
Lauren Dubowski
CCAM Assistant Director
Lauren Dubowski (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary creative producer. With the CCAM team, she collaborates on the curation, development, and implementation of the center’s programs and projects. Lauren was previously based in Poland, where she worked with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Kinhouse Studio, and the Łodź Film School vnLab, as well as Ado Ato Pictures (Netherlands/USA). Also a writer and translator, Lauren holds a DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She was a Fulbright fellow to Poland and a Luce Scholar in Indonesia.
Konrad Kaczmarek
Associate Professor (Adjunct) in Music, Yale University
Konrad Kaczmarek is a composer, musician, and instrument designer whose music incorporates live audio processing and improvisation, drawing on his musical and technical background. His compositions have been performed by an eclectic group of performers and ensembles including Cygnus, Crash Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Dither, Janus, Psappha, PLOrk, Sideband, and the NOW Ensemble. His freelance programming and performing have taken him to The River to River Festival in Lower Manhattan (2013), Kunstnernes Hus in Olso, Norway (2009), the New Zealand International Arts Festival (2008), the 2008 Whitney Biennial Performance Series, the Next Wave festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006), “Works and Process” at the Guggenheim (2006), and The Strings of Autumn Festival at the Estate Theater in Prague (2006). Konrad is on the faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University, where he teaches courses in composition, music technology, and instrument design. He is Co-Director of Yale College New Music, Associate Director of the YalMusT Music Technology Labs, and has a joint appointment as Lecturer in Sound Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He holds degrees from Princeton University (PhD in Music, 2015), the University of London, Goldsmiths (MMus in Electroacoustic Composition, 2003), and Yale University (BA in Music, 2002).
Jeeu Sarah Kim
Artist
Jeeu Sarah Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer based in Honolulu and Seoul. She is a recent graduate of the MArch II Post-Professional program at the Yale School of Architecture, where she has experience as a teaching fellow, a CCAM postgraduate fellow, and a coordinating editor for Paprika! She received her bachelor's in architecture with a concentration in visual studies at Cornell University. Professionally, she worked at Toyo Ito Architects & Associates in Tokyo, Dean Sakamoto Architects in Honolulu, CL3 Architects in Hong Kong, and BCHO Architects in Seoul. Her work has been exhibited at the Autostadt Museum (Germany, 2023), Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul, 2023), Yale North Gallery (New Haven, 2022), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, 2022), MMCA (Seoul, 2021), and SCAI The Bathhouse (Tokyo, 2017).
Rashaad Newsome
Inaugural Artist Fellow in The Racial Reckoning in Art & Performance at Yale
Rashaad Newsome’s work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film & video, animation, photography, music, writing, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a divergent field that mirrors the intersectionality of their lived experience. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, they pull from the world of advertising, the internet, art history, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between social practice and abstraction. Newsome holds a 2023 Doctoral degree in Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut and a 2001 BFA in Art History from Tulane University. Rashaad has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including The Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), The National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), The Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), MoMAPS1 (NYC), Museum of the African Diaspora (SF, CA), SFMOMA (CA), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA), and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). Rashaad’s many honors and awards for his work include a 2023 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut; 2023 ITVS Documentary Film Funding; SF Dance Film Festival Award; 2022 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award For Computer Animation; The 2022 NEWFEST Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award; and a 2022 Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator and Outstanding Visual Design.
Mike Picos
MFA Student, Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art
Mike Picos is an artist currently living and working in New Haven, CT. He received a BFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and an MAT in Art Education from Queens College, CUNY. He is currently a second-year MFA student in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.
Sam Skynner
MFA Student, Projection Design, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
Sam Skynner is a Canadian designer, educator, and researcher currently located in New Haven, CT. Her work and research are interdisciplinary; she is interested in film, theater, dance, installation, and archive. Her practice centers around the exploration of light and its ability to transform people and space. She is interested in exploring new media techniques while also utilizing antiquated technologies in order to create a dialogue between the two. She is currently an MFA Design candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and has been a Studio Fellow at CCAM and a Teaching Fellow in the Yale Film and Media Studies program. In Summer 2023, Sam held a fellowship at the Beinecke library researching Technology, Experimentation and Theatrical Consciousness in the work of Mary Ellen Bute.
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Associate Professor of AI and the Arts, University of Florida
Amelia Winger-Bearskin (MFA, University of Texas) is an artist who empowers people to leverage bleeding-edge technology to effect positive change in the world. She is an Innovation Fellow at the Land Acknowledgement Lab for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture: Honor Native Land Initiative. She founded the project Wampum.Codes, which is both an award-winning podcast and ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. She continued her research in 2021 at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence, made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning. In 2019, she was an invited presenter to His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, at his world headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a MacArthur/Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360-video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program). IDEA New Rochelle, the non-profit she founded in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 $1 Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayors Challenge for their VR/AR citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. In 2018, she also was awarded the 100k Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project from Engadget and Verizon Media. Winger-Bearskin is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.
Kaifeng Wu
CCAM Fellow
Kaifeng Wu 吴凯风 is interested in the daily rituals, movements, and experiences of the human body in time and space. He was trained as an architect, but is incessantly curious about the intersection of a broad range of mediums, materials, and disciplines. In a critical response to the radical technological reconstitution of culture, politics, and society into a new digital reality, his work proposes a timeless way of thinking about our virtual future in connection to the physical, the material, and the body. Wu received his BA and Master of Architecture degrees from Yale University. In 2021, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Goethe Institut. In 2022, his winning design for the Ecological Living Module was presented at the United Nations Environment Assembly. His interactive installations have opened at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery (2022); and Yale CCAM (2023).
Alan Turing and the Patterns of Life
Matthew Suttor
CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College
New Zealand-born composer Matthew Suttor has taught at Yale University since 1999, first in the Department of Music and, since 2002, at the School of Drama. He is also affiliate faculty at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale (CCAM). Suttor’s work in opera and dance includes Don Juan in Prague, in collaboration with director David Chambers, for the Bard SummerScape Festival and revised for the Mozart Prague Festival, the Guggenheim Works and Process series, and the BAM Next Wave Festival. I Find Comfort in Thunder for the Folkwang Tanzstudio, Essen, toured Germany, and his opera, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, premiered at the International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand, and was broadcast by Radio New Zealand. Concert works, installations, and television scores include Syntagma, commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, La Prose du Transsibérien, for narrator and chamber ensemble, and HxWxL, both commissioned by the Beinecke Library. The Eastman School of Music commissioned Buntpapier, and he composed the score for Zoomslide’s television series Real Pasifik. Yale Repertory Theatre productions include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, Arcadia, and An Enemy of the People. A Fulbright Scholar, Suttor received a doctorate in composition from Columbia University.
Theodore Kim
Associate Professor in Computer Science, Yale University
Theodore Kim is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Yale University, where he investigates biomechanical solids, fluid dynamics, and topics in geometry. Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios. He received a PhD from the University of North Carolina in 2006, and a BS from Cornell University in 2001. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, multiple Best Paper awards, and a Scientific and Technical Academy Award. His algorithms have appeared in over 20 films, and he has screen credits for Cars 3, Coco, Incredibles 2, and Toy Story 4. He was recently awarded a Technical Achievement Academy Award.
Smita Krishnaswamy
Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science, Yale University
Smita Krishnaswamy is an Associate Professor in Genetics and Computer Science. She is affiliated with the applied math program, computational biology program, Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science, and Yale Cancer Center. Her lab works on the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high dimensional high throughput biomedical data. Her focus is on unsupervised machine learning methods, specifically manifold learning and deep learning techniques for detecting structure and patterns in data. She has developed algorithms for non-linear dimensionality reduction and visualization, learning data geometry, denoising, imputation, inference of multi-granular structure, and inference of feature networks from big data. Her group has applied these techniques to many data types such as single cell RNA-sequencing, mass cytometry, electronic health record, and connectomic data from a variety of systems. Specific application areas include immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Smita has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Richard Prum
William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Professor Richard Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Professor Prum is an evolutionary ornithologist with broad interests in avian biology. He has done research on diverse topics, including avian phylogenetics, behavioral evolution, feather evolution and development, sexual selection, sexual conflict, aesthetic evolution, avian color vision, avian structural colors and pigments, avian mimicry, and the theropod dinosaur origin of birds. His book The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us (Doubleday 2017) was named a Top Ten Book of the Year by the New York Times, and was a Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. From 2012–2017, he served as the Director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities at Yale, the initiative aims to foster communication, mutual understanding, collaborative research and teaching among diverse scientific and humanistic disciplines.
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Matthew Suttor
CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College
New Zealand-born composer Matthew Suttor has taught at Yale University since 1999, first in the Department of Music and, since 2002, at the School of Drama. He is also affiliate faculty at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale (CCAM). Suttor’s work in opera and dance includes Don Juan in Prague, in collaboration with director David Chambers, for the Bard SummerScape Festival and revised for the Mozart Prague Festival, the Guggenheim Works and Process series, and the BAM Next Wave Festival. I Find Comfort in Thunder for the Folkwang Tanzstudio, Essen, toured Germany, and his opera, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, premiered at the International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand, and was broadcast by Radio New Zealand. Concert works, installations, and television scores include Syntagma, commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, La Prose du Transsibérien, for narrator and chamber ensemble, and HxWxL, both commissioned by the Beinecke Library. The Eastman School of Music commissioned Buntpapier, and he composed the score for Zoomslide’s television series Real Pasifik. Yale Repertory Theatre productions include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, Arcadia, and An Enemy of the People. A Fulbright Scholar, Suttor received a doctorate in composition from Columbia University.
Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Creative Team
Liam Bellman-Sharpe is an Australian composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, and baritone. Working across disciplines, he specializes in designing the software tools and sound systems to create sonic environments.
Sola Fadiran
Creative Team
Sola Fadiran Is a Nigerian-American actor, singer, and writer. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut this year in Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater. He has performed as a soloist and artist with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Isauro Martinez, Cincinnati Opera, Orchestra New England, Columbia Orchestra, Utah Festival Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center New Work Commission, as well as the Yale Schola Cantorum, among others.
Hugh Farrell
Creative Team
Hugh Farrell is an Irish dramaturg, producer, and Head of Cultural Affairs for the Irish Embassy in Paris. His work imagines new ways for audiences to interact with art, technology and the environment.
Frederick Kennedy
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Frederick Kennedy is a Canadian-American drummer, composer, and sound designer whose work explores the intersection of music improvisation and collaborative theatermarking. He is Assistant Professor of Sound Design and Composition at University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre Arts & Dance.
Tyler Kieffer
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Tyler Kieffer is a sound designer whose work explores the power of sound to transform our perception of space. He is associate professor of sound design at Louisiana State University.
Madeline Pages
Creative Team
Madeline Pages is an American dramaturg and scholar whose research bridges the fields of performing arts, technology, and media theory. Her current research interests include the historical use of performance as a tool for marketing scientific innovation.
Jean François Monette
Creative Team
Jean-François Monette is a Canadian director, screenwriter and producer. His body of work explores themes of representation and sexual identity.
Emily Reilly
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Emily Reilly is a British/Irish performance maker and dramaturg working across theatre, film and dance. Emily is Co-Artistic Director of HORSE Performance Company.
Dakota Stipp
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Dakota Stipp is an entrepreneur, software developer, interdisciplinary designer, and composer who develops new applications for spatial and sensor technologies in performances and exhibitions. He is CEO of Amuse Technologies, a startup in the arts and culture space.
Wladimiro A. Woyno R.
Creative Team
Wladimiro A. Woyno R. is a Colombian visual designer whose work focuses on adapting new technologies for live performance. He is Assistant Professor at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts in Theatre Design, Vancouver.
Kino Alvarez
Creative Team
Kino Alvarez is an Audio Engineer with an immense working knowledge relating to sound design, lighting design and audio engineering.
Max Monnig
Creative Team
Max Monnig is a fourth-year acting student at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he has appeared in Ghosts, The Winter’s Tale, and The Misanthrope. He is very thankful to be a part of this beautiful project.
Aura Michelle
Creative Team
Aura Michelle is a multi-hyphenate artist from Canada and second-year MFA candidate in Stage Management at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her passion lies in new plays and projects, music, dance, and collaborative performance creation.
Tyler Schroeder
Creative Team
Gene Stenger is a professional singer, and Bach specialist, who as a tenor performs as both a soloist with symphony orchestras as well as a chamber ensemble musician with various organizations across the country. He currently resides in New Haven, where he serves as instructor of voice at Yale.
Matthew Harrison
Conductor
Matthew Harrison is a multifaceted musician with degrees in piano and voice, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in choral conducting.
Sharon Ahn
Chorus
is a songwriter/composer, performer, keyboard instrumentalist (piano, carillon, organ), music tech enthusiast, and music director pursuing a degree in Music at Yale College. Singer on occasion: previous groups include the Whiffenpoofs and the Yale Glee Club.
Annabel Beatty
Chorus
Annabel Beatty is a soprano who has been praised for her silvery tone quality. She studies with Maggie Lieberman and is looking forward to making her Yale theatrical debut.
Benjamin Beckman
Chorus
Benjamin Beckman is a composer, conductor, pianist, and singer who sings regularly in the Yale Schola Cantorum and in choirs around New Haven. His undergraduate thesis in composition—Passage, a 70-minute chamber opera—won Yale's 2023 Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for most outstanding thesis submitted in the music major.
Shane Francis
Chorus
Shane Francis is a well-rounded vocalist who recently moved to Connecticut from New York. A graduate from The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in 2018,they are currently singing under the baton of Dr. Felicia Barber in the Yale Camerata. They are also excited to continue discovering the music community in New Haven!
Eduardo Pagliaro-Haque
Chorus
Eduardo Pagliaro-Haque is an avid sing-anywhere-anytime vocalist, is passionate about the sounds and structure of language. A walk down the street with him will almost always result in an unsolicited song and a quote from you for his notebook.
Mae McDonnell
Chorus
Mae McDonnell is an emerging soprano studying with Maggie Lieberman. Mae has performed with choirs at Yale, Eastman, and UConn, and is thrilled to be a part of this creative process.
Gene Stenger
Chorus
Gene Stenger is a professional singer, and Bach specialist, who as a tenor performs as both a soloist with symphony orchestras as well as a chamber ensemble musician with various organizations across the country. He currently resides in New Haven, where he serves as instructor of voice at Yale.