CCAM Presents: Spring 2023 Symposium: Ultra Space

CCAM’s Symposium is a biannual event that brings together artists and audiences to explore a timely theme. Our Spring 2023 Symposium, Ultra Space, takes up earthly reference frames for understanding the body in space. Inspired by the work of Arakawa and Gins, we consider the body as a part of its architectural surroundings. Interdisciplinary encounters will suggest shared reconfigurations of spatial and material form: embodiment that can be perceived, non-linear time at different scales and speeds, and ways to question and understand our own sentient volumes. Join us for discussions, workshops, performances, an exhibition, and more!
PROGRAM
Events
>Thursday, April 27:
3-4:30pm: Presentations for Contributions to Ultra Space Printed Volume
5-6:30pm: Exhibition Opening & Reception: Artworks, Artist Lightning Talks, + Zine Fair
Featuring: Aleksa Milojevic + Amelia Gates (Ultra Space Student Researchers), Sana Sharma (Designer + Researcher, MIT Space Exploration Initiative), Che-Wei Wang (Artist, Designer, Architecht + Co-Founder, CW&T)
7-8pm: Live Performance of Latency
By Liam Bellman-Sharpe (Composer, Sound Designer, Orchestrator, + Music Director)
>Friday, April 28:
10-10:30am: Opening & Ultra Space: Terra Cosma Film Premiere
10:30-11:30am: What Do You See? An Interdisciplinary Discussion of a Work by Arakawa + GinsFeaturing: Miwako Tezuka (Associate Director, Reversible Destiny Foundation), ST Luk (Project Manager, Reversible Destiny Foundation), Matthew Suttor (Professor in the Practice of Sound Design, David Geffen School of Drama), Priya Natarajan (Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Yale University), Mae-ling Lokko (Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture)
11:45am-12:45pm: Body/Cyborg/Alien? Emobdying What’s Out There
Featuring: Sydney Skybetter (Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University), Elise Morrison (Assistant Professor of Theater Studies, Yale University), Ravi Kumar Kopparapu (Research AST, Planetary Studies, NASA)
1:15-2:30pm: Manipulations Workshop
Featuring: Dana Karwas (Director, CCAM + Critic, Yale School of Architecture), Sarah Oppenheimer (Critic, Yale School of Art), and Alvin Ashiatey (CCAM/Yale School of Art Postgraduate Fellow)
2:45-4pm: Live Performance of Composition in Frozen TimeBy Konrad Kaczmarek (Associate Professor Adjunct of Music, Yale University)
4:15-5:15pm: Live Performance
By Nahum (Artist, Musician, Performer, + Founding Director of KOSMICA Institute)
5:30-6:30pm: Closing: Living In Space
Featuring: Ariel Ekblaw (Founder and Director, MIT Space Exploration Initiative + Co-Founder + CEO, Aurelia Institute), Dana Karwas, + a special space guest
More guests + details coming soon!
Exhibition
>Thursday, April 27 + Friday, April 28
More details coming soon!