Opportunities

 Yale Ventures x CCAM Curatorial Fellowship

Yale Ventures, launched by Yale University in 2022, was created to connect and support the university’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. We seek to build a vibrant entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem that increases support, resources, and opportunities for Yale innovators—faculty and students—as they translate their ideas and discoveries into new ventures that will positively impact the world’s greatest challenges. Yale Ventures will open their new space at 101 College Street in October 2024. This 10,000-square-foot space will include flexible space for mission-related programming, as well as office spaces and conference rooms for Yale staff engaged in related projects.  

The Yale Ventures x Yale CCAM Art + Innovation Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to activate the Yale Ventures headquarters by curating art that embodies Yale’s vibrant interdisciplinary community. This fellowship is designed for a Yale artist, technologist, and/or curator from any media and practice(s) or discipline who is passionate about the intersection of innovation and technology at the university.  

The fellow will curate one or more works from among the Yale community and/or in the greater art world to inspire and engage visitors and community members in the space, leveraging these themes. The fellow will consult with the Yale Ventures and Yale CCAM teams to receive guidance on the creative and logistical aspects of the exhibition, with the goal of imagining new methods and augmenting existing practices of curatorial expression and engagement. The works, subject to approval by Yale Ventures and CCAM, will be displayed at the Yale Ventures headquarters at 101 College Street, timed to coincide with the opening of the new space.

In addition to activating the Yale Ventures space, fellows will support Yale CCAM in the production of its Fall 2024 exhibition at its ISOVIST gallery, which opens on November 8, 2024. This may involve assisting the show curator with the installation of artworks, publications, and other duties as assigned.  

Applications due September 15, 2024, at 12PM. Full information & link to apply >

Call for Participation: Yale Textile Working Group

This fall marks the beginning of a new interdisciplinary working group centered around textiles, sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center. The group is intended to help Yale community members connect over the topic of textiles. Researchers, historians, makers and practitioners of all disciplines and expertise levels are all welcome!

Meetings will serve as spaces to discuss the history and future of textile crafts in all dimensions, including techniques (weaving, embroidery, quilting, knitting, crochet, etc.), materials (cotton, silk, wool, synthetics, dyes, etc.), and practices (social histories, collectives, industries, sciences, local traditions, etc.) While the group can be called a working group in an academic sense, it is also intended in a more tangible sense: if you have handwork that you want to attend to in a communal setting, you are welcome to bring along works in progress. Working in community facilitates an alternative discussion space to the traditional academic forum, and some limited basic materials and tools will be supplied at meetings.

Depending on interest, members will also be welcomed to join in on the Yale Farm’s indigo harvest and dye extraction process, which will occur until the first frost, and a mending workshop is also planned for the fall. To join the email list to be notified of meetings and textile-related happenings, or if you would like to propose a presentation of your research or practice during a meeting, please register HERE and/or join our first introductory stitching circle on September 9 from 5-7pm in Loria 360 (on the community calendars!). Please pass along this announcement to any colleagues — faculty, student, or staff — who may be interested, regardless of department/school.

DHLab Fall Opportunities
 
Are you a Yale graduate student interested in humanistic questions and in building professional experience and expertise on digital humanities projects in a client-facing role? The Yale DHLab welcomes applicants to our DH Generalist Consultant and DH Specialist Consultant positions. Generalist Consultants bring a broad interest in DH expertise and Specialist Consultants bring an existing area of knowledge they’d like to deepen. Consultants are funded to hold consultations in the DHLab (a minimum commitment of two hours per week) and, as interested, to join DHLab projects, participate in secondments to other library units, and train in relevant skill areas.
 
For more detailed information and to apply, please visit the student jobs portal.
 
WORKSHOPS
Skip a Thousand Words: Data Visualization Principles for DH
> WHEN Wed Sep 18 10-11am
> WHERE online
> HOW register here
> WHAT: Struggling to express a pattern you’re noticing in your data? Just looking to add visual interest to your DH project? Try a data visualization! This workshop will expose you to principles and techniques that can help you make compelling data visualizations that effectively convey your work to viewers. Participants will walk away with a conceptual grounding in designing data visualizations; this workshop will not focus on conveying statistical significance or adhering to disciplinary standards in traditional data fields. No programming experience required.
 
DH Foundations 
> WHEN Wed Sep 25, Oct 2, Oct 9 2-3:30pm
> WHERE online
> HOW register for Part I, Part II, Part III
> WHAT: In this interactive online workshop, participants will explore many avenues for creating meaningful and ethical DH projects by critically discussing case studies of existing projects as a group. We’ll also discuss the history of DH as a field and practice while collaboratively creating vocabularies around what it even means to “do DH”— especially what it means to “do good DH” —and identifying important questions to ask along the way.

Participants will work together to identify qualities essential to any effective DH project and will walk away with a shared vocabulary to critique and propose DH projects of their own. This workshop will involve a lot of working together, but we do not expect participants to bring existing knowledge of DH methods, programming, or technical skills in general.

Note: This workshop is open to current Yale graduate students and postdocs and is the first requirement to complete the Digital Humanities Lab’s DH certificate. Participants must attend all three parts to receive credit.

Opportunities at the Center for Collaborative Arts & Media!

The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media CCAM Studio Fellowship (2024–2025): The CCAM Studio Fellowship invites creators to produce an original project based at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale. For 2024–2025, the application is open to everyone!

CCAM offers each project: 

• funding for project materials,
• meetings with the group of fellows and our team for project mentorship,
• access to the center’s spaces and Equipment Checkout, and an opportunity to present their work in the Studio Fellowship Exhibition.

Deadline: Tuesday, September 3 at 12:00 PM EDT. Full information & link to apply >>

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Open Call for Hypertext/Hyperlink Exhibition, CCAM ISOVIST Gallery, Fall 2024: Hypertext has been a foundational concept in how the web operates, connecting relational pages through hyperlinks to create a constellation of interconnected documents. The term “hypertext” was coined by Theodor Nelson, who described it as “non-sequential writing – text that branches and allows choices to the reader.” This concept is evident in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the markup language used for creating websites, where the anchor tag links HTML documents together. Curated by CCAM ISOVIST Guest Curator Alvin Ashiatey (Lecturer, Yale School of Art and MFA ‘22)

Participate in this exhibition by submitting proposals by Sunday, September 1 at 12:00 PM EDT.Full information & link to apply >>

The New Art School Modality: Arts Writing/Writing About Art
 Fall 2024 Course | October 11th-December 13th, 2024

The New Art School Modality’s latest course, “Arts Writing/Writing About Art“ will take place this Fall weekly on Fridays from 10am - 12:30 pm EST beginning Friday, October 11, 2024. The course will be a virtual-in person hybrid. The in-person sessions will be on the Hauser & Wirth, NY Gallery premises at 443 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011.
 
Faculty with expertise on the topic include:

• Professor Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator and author, including Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2012) and Dawoud Bey: Elegy (2023)
• Professor Hannah Higgins, whose writings include The Grid Book (2009) and “Intermedial Perception Or, Fluxing Across the Sensory” (2021)
• Professor Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York (2021) and The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s (2023)
• Professor Jenni Sorkin, whose works include Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women Artists, 1947–2016 (2016), and Art in California (2021).
• Professors Fred Moten & Steve Harney, authors of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) and All Incomplete (2020).
• Professor Romi Crawford, writings on artists include essays on Nick Cave, Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, and Kamoinge Workshop photographers.
• Professor Siddhartha Mitter, journalist whose writings include “Steve McQueen, on a Different Wavelength (2024)” and “Dawoud Bey, Full Frame: On Richmond’s Trail of the Enslaved” 

You can learn more about the faculty here >

Applications due September 25, 2024. Link to apply >