IMPRINTS
MAQUETTE VOLUME 4.
CHAOS + CONTROL
Maquette Volume 4: Chaos + Control
Editor: Alex Zafiris
Deisgn: Julia Schäfer
Cover: Julie Curtiss
Cover artist Julie Curtiss discusses her love of riddles, rhythms, female archetypes, power dynamics, and how nature itself is chaotic.
Priyamvada Natarajan, theoretical astrophysicist and Time 100 honoree, has an instinct for the arts that illuminates her obsession with our cosmos. With a specially commissioned portrait by Balarama Heller.
Takashi Ikegami of the University of Tokyo created the android ALTER as part of his research into human behavior, artificial life, and complex systems. He discusses autonomy, individuality, and community, and whether machines have consciousness.
Jess Nash, an artist and neurobiologist, discusses the arbitrary notion of order in connection with the work of groundbreaking 19th-century neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and how this influences both their painting practice and scientific research.
Lauren Dubowski, a dramaturg and writer, dives into the mystery of Polish writer Bruno Schulz’s legendary missing novel, as part of her current project on AI and lost literature, Speculative Relics.
Artist Dana Karwas walks us through her latest exhibition, “Thirty Six Point Eight Hours,” a sculptural meditation on hidden lines, movement, and impossible imagery at Spill 180 Gallery in Brooklyn.
Science fiction writers Pamela Zoline and Ned Beauman discuss philosophy, JG Ballard, and dark humor, with artwork by Adam Amram.
Photographer Patricia Voulgaris, contributes a portfolio and discusses how her imagery is a complication of psychology, place, theme, and concept.
Tracy Xinran Li, presents her Ultra Space project, SEED, a compass for the space traveler built in the form of an acorn that will always point to Earth, wherever in the sky you may be.
Graphic designer Julia Schäfer, discusses her practice and vision for the look of the print edition of Maquette 4, which was inspired by NASA’s Apollo 11 mission visual identity, including the Futura typeface.
Maquette editor Alex Zafiris introduces the issue with Gregory Crewdson’s 2025 photograph from the set of Ari Aster’s film Eddington. This atypical collaboration and resulting image is an example of how artists are grappling with absurdity, rage, and the unknown with great sensitivity, curiosity, and humor.
MAQUETTE VOLUME 3.
SERENDIPITY
Maquette Volume 3: Serendipity
Editor: Alex Zafiris
Design: Jun Jung
Cover: Balarama Heller
First published online in November 2022, each article approaches ideas of luck, destiny, chance, and fate in relation to artistic, architectural, literary, and pedagogical practice.
Featuring:
Dana Karwas and artist and architect Keller Easterling in conversation about surprise, Jacques Tati, and “the switch”
Maquette Editor and CCAM’s writer-in-residence Alex Zafiris and artist Ian Cheng discuss the unconscious, dreams, and reality
Lisa Kereszi on searching for moments and meaning through her photography
Artist Anahita Vossoughi on her new series, “Exoskeletons for Protection”
Artist and writer Jace Clayton a.k.a DJ /rupture on serendipity in the digital domain, with contributing artwork by Hayal Pozanti
CCAM team member Matthew Suttor discusses his new Creativity Lab, “a space for play” with contributing artwork by Sewon Roy Kim
Karwas on her “Terra Cosma Space Suit” collaboration with MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw, with contributing artwork by Aleksa Milojevic, Amelia Gates, and Samantha Hrusovsky
Zafiris examines William S. Burroughs’ cut-ups as a disruptive literary technology
Balarama Heller in conversation with Zafiris about his ideas on interconnectedness, free will, and consciousness within his photography practice
Musician and computer scientist Roxanne Harris on how she began to perform live coding with Sonic Pi
Dramaturg Madeline Pages describes her fascination with historical models and images of outer space
Jun Jung outlines his process and ideas for the print design of Maquette Issue 3, including his “Serendipity Sequence”
Artist Damian Loeb presents his second algorithm project in “The Camera on the Roof”
Designer Anežka Minaříková describes her search for a memory chip that would forever preserve the sound of her grandmother singing a song
Management psychologist David Caruso and research scientist Zorana Ivcevic discuss emotional intelligence, fear, luck, and creativity; and an interview with contributing artist Brennen Steines
Zafiris and Karwas present CCAM’s very own “checking stick,” an interdisciplinary version of the David Lynch original
ULTRA SPACE: A Zero Gravity Proxy for Objects and Architecture
Authors: Dana Karwas and Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn
Editor: Olga Kedya
Design: Xiwen Zang
The project gathers more than six years of Yale Ultra Space research, alongside contributions by Trattie Davies, Ariel Ekblaw, Tiri Kananuruk, Kepler Karwas, Taylor Levy, Sarah Oppenheimer, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Taylor Rees, Alexis Sablone, Che-Wei Wang, and Pamela Zoline.
Re-orientation
Editor: Alex Zafiris
Deisgn: Furqan Jawed and Anna Sagström
Cover: Fabio Barile
First published online in June 2021, each article approaches problem-solving both in the time of COVID and in a larger context. Maquette was founded to serve as an archive in motion to track the projects, research, experiments, and events that make up the interdisciplinary discourse of the students and faculty.
Each article approaches problem-solving both in the time of COVID and in a larger context. Opening the issue is an interview by Alex Zafiris with the art critic, scholar, and teacher Nora N. Khan discussing her writing practice and using language as a future-casting tool; and a conversation with Dana Karwas and the artist Sarah Oppenheimer on the ultra-space created through observing gesture, motion, and cognition.
Check-ins with Yale faculty include essays from Thomas Allen Harris on his course and online exhibition, Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling; Elise Morrison on researching her upcoming book Post-Dramatic Stress: Theater and Therapy in the Aftermath of War; and Karwas on her current Artspace exhibition, In A Heartbeat.
Zafiris examines Andy Warhol’s perception of consciousness through his pioneering use of video and split-screen in his 1965 film, Outer and Inner Space featuring Edie Sedgwick; Luiza Dale and Tuan Quoc Pham, the designers of Maquette online, discuss their practices and how they shaped the journal’s visual identity.
Emily Reilly describes her experiences as a dramaturg working on an Alan Turing opera, and using AI to conjure his voice and presence; Emily Coates and Max Wirsing consider the new awareness of physical space and movement in our lives through their respective disciplines of dance and architecture.
Ross Wightman recounts the challenges and opportunities that came with transforming a laptop musical ensemble to a remote configuration; Molleen Theodore and Jake Gagne present three proposals created by architecture students for exhibiting museum work outside the gallery.
Liam Bellman-Sharpe discusses his ideas on wealth and the future of space that featured in his lo-fi musical, Elon Musk and the Plan to Blow Up Mars with his sound designer, Erin Sullivan.
Rishab Jain renders an illustration of an asteroid being spray-painted white to avoid a collision with earth, inspired by a conversation with artist Damian Loeb.