Speak to Me series identity by Milo Bonacci, Graphic Design MFA ‘21.
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Speak to Me
June 9, 2020 — ongoing
Open to the public
The Yale School of Art’s Speak to Me series is an online forum with invited speakers, activists, writers, and artists organized with poet, playwright, author, and Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale Claudia Rankine, Leah Mirakhor, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, alongside Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor Marta Kuzma, in an effort to address the NOW. Past guests in the series include Hilton Als, Sarah Schulman, and Greg Tate.
Envisioned as a series of virtual events through which the work of activists and organizers engaging in the continued fight for justice can be lifted up, the program features a series of individuals from different cities across the United States, in order to facilitate a nationwide conversation on what is going on across the country geographically at the moment. With the aim of spreading awareness as to how ongoing conditions of state violence, racial capitalism, and COVID-19 concerns manifest in the protests and calls for justice we ask: What is to be done? More information >>
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Antiracism Speaker Series
June 3–16, 2020
Open to current SoA faculty, students, & staff
Initiated by artist and Associate Professor Meleko Mokgosi, the Antiracism Speaker Series function as internal conversations intended to create a space through which the SoA community can engage in open dialogue around the critical issues of racism, violence, and trauma and their continued legacy in America.
Past guests include Jeffrey Prager, Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Sociology and a Training Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles; Northwestern University Professor Leslie Harris, whose work has focused on complicating the ideas we all hold about the history of African Americans in the United States; MIT Professor Craig Steven Wilder, historian of American institutions and ideas; artist Dread Scott; and National Field Director of the Youth First Initiative, Mishi Faruqee who was interviewed by her sister, Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking, Anoka Faruqee. Although there are no more events scheduled in the series at this time, it's possible future conversations may be added throughout the summer and following academic year. More information >>
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Posters for the Photo Pop Up Lecture Series; designs by Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA ‘20.
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Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series
April 1, 2020 — May 10, 2020
Open to SoA faculty, students, staff, & alums
Started in response to the shift to online learning during the 2020 pandemic, the School of Art’s Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Gregory Crewdson initiated and hosted this special series of online events which functioned as short 30-minute to hour-long discussions.
In each Q&A, Crewdson asked a set list of questions to engage each artist in conversation about their practice, as well as how they’re adapting and responding to the current crisis. In less than a month and a half, the series hosted 28 talks with guests including Kara Walker, Errol Morris, Catherine Opie, Sophie Calle, Tilda Swinton, Brit Marling, Stephen Shore, Kelly Reichardt, William Eggleston, Ben Stiller, Ari Aster, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cate Blanchett, Stan Douglas, Noah Baumbach, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Eggers, Robert Adams, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Murphy, Natasha Lyonne, and Nan Goldin.
While the recordings of all of these online events cannot be made publicly available, select clips and full segments are published on the Photo department’s Youtube channel as well as archived on the School of Art website >>
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MFA Student & Faculty Projects
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Screenshot of the project homepage, with typefaces (from top-left clockwise) by Yuanbo Wang '20, Sam Wood '20, Bianca Ibarlucea '21, and Jun Jung ’21.
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Type Design, or Letterform: Graphic Design Student Work Website
Launched April 2020
typedesign.yaleschoolofart.org
This website project presents student work from Type Design or Letterform, an elective course within the Graphic Design department. Over the course of one semester, students develop typefaces more or less closely based on historical reference material. Source material is treated as a guideline, an example to learn from. The objective is to build a functioning and usable font as a consistent system of shapes and spaces, based on an understanding of the aesthetic demands of individual letterforms as well as the interrelations between them.
Instructors include Tobias Frere-Jones, Nina Stössinger, and Matthew Carter. This website was developed by Nina Stössinger and TA Julia Schäfer '20 with help from students Jun Jung '21, Mianwei Wang '21, Minhwan Kim '21, Sam Wood '20, and Yuanbo Wang '20, with technical setup by Sarah Stevens-Morling, Assistant Dean for Communications and Digital Media. The website will be expanded over time to include work created in other years. Visit project website >>
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Screenshot of the Yale Photo MFA 2020 website, Hindsight, created by Samuel Kilgus and Julia Schäfer, Graphic Design '20.
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Yale Photo MFA 2020: Hindsight
Launched May 18, 2020
mfaphoto.yaleschoolofart.org
Hindsight is an online presentation of the work of the 2020 Yale School of Art MFA Photography program, in response to the fact that, along with many other schools across the United States, the ten graduates were unable to install their thesis show due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their photographs and videos are accompanied by an introductory essay by artist and writer Carmen Winant, with website and development by Samuel Kilgus and Julia Schäfer, Graphic Design MFA '20. Visit project website >>
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Still from Stella Zhong's The York Street Circuit 2020, 2020.
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Stella Zhong's The York Street Circuit 2020
April 2020
vimeo.com/403779996
MFA student Stella Zhong, Sculpture '21, created The York Street Circuit 2020 (2020). This video, along with two other videos by the artist, are part of the Special Project page on view at Chapter NY Gallery.
Zhong writes of the project: "Within my apartment, I have been discovering and otherwise conjuring moments that puncture the ordinary rhythm; moments that become portals to new ways of understanding how larger systems are manifested through the little bits of our immediate surroundings. These are recordings of my speculative observations." Watch The York Street Circuit 2020 >>
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Screenshot of Cindy Hwang's Webcam World, taken on May 13, 2020.
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Cindy Hwang's Webcam World
Launched April 20, 2020
www.web-cam.world
Recent graduate in Graphic Design Cindy Hwang '20, created Webcam World, a "living altarpiece" that streams live footage from seven locations: Times Square, Shibuya Crossing, St. Peter's Square, the Great Mosque of Mecca, beaches in St. Barts and Thailand, and the International Space Station.
Hwang writes of the project, "The webcams bear witness to the contraction of public spaces in the era of COVID-19, while calling attention to global interdependence and heightened surveillance. The website is accompanied by an archive of daily screenshots that will document the trajectory of the pandemic until the World Health Organization declares that it is officially over."
Webcam visibility fluctuates depending on the time of day, and the archive can be accessed by clicking on the background of the main site. Visit Webcam World >>
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Screenshot of the undergraduate digital thesis archive, Yale BA Art 2020.
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Yale BA Art 2020: Digital Thesis Archive
Launched May 2020
yale20.art
The Yale College undergraduate art majors in the class of 2020 published a website of their thesis works, yale20.art, and are sharing it as part of Thesis Shows 2020, a website hosting links to 2020 Graduates of BA, BFA, MFA programs across the U.S., co-organized by Laurel Nakadate, Photography MFA '01. Featuring work by recent Yale College graduates Itai Almor, Monique Baltzer, Lena Christakis, Sadie Cornette Cook, Ronan Day-Lewis, Sebastián Galvan, Miles Kim, Molly Ono, Hazal Özgür, Matt Reiner, Harrison K. Smith, Alice Tirard, and TanTan Wang. Visit project website >>
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Still from Ris Igrec's film "Suddenly it Wasn't: navigating mental health during a global pandemic."
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"Covid College: Films from Yale College's Documentary Filmmaking Workshop"
Published April 2020
vimeo.com/412991244
Sandra Luckow's Intro and Intermediate Documentary Workshops continued their work even though they had to shelter in place and pivot their planned projects. The result is an historic glimpse into the personal time capsuled details during an unprecedented time in all of our lives. Participating students include Cameron Adams, Caroline Bennet, Maya Weldon, Unique Parker, Julia Leatham, Caitlin O'Hara, Ko Lyn Cheang, Pablo Causa, Ris Igrec, Laurie Gomez, and Harry Rubin. Watch the films >>
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