ARRAY [ ] is a repository of entryways into new media craft, processes, materials, cultures, and contexts specifically geared towards beginners (both teachers and students). The title ARRAY [ ] is inspired by a concept common to programming languages that generally means, “a systematic arrangement” or “a variable that can be indexed.” ARRAY [ ] content includes both project scenarios and essays as mechanisms for learning. Unlike a conventional printed textbook, ARRAY [ ] can use the flexibility of the web platform to grow, change, and respond to shifts in art, design, and education.
Our intention is to increase the number of students experiencing low-level approaches (as in command line prompts and programming) that remove as many layers of interface abstraction as possible. Specifically, we are offering an alternative to the standard "Creative Suite®" focused approach to new media aspects of art and design foundations. ARRAY[ ] offers examples of alternate models and methods of learning, collaboration, and relevant responses to art/design edu outside of higher education, all from a standpoint of practical and friendly curriculum for the introduction of complex ideas and processes. - j.duran, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Parris Westbrook, ARRAY[ ] Project Founders
ARRAY[ ] is independent, and non-corporate. Our editors, developers, advisors, contributors, and organizers are all teachers and professors deeply invested in education.
ARRAY[ ] is a repository of knowledge based on the idea that the “foundations” of new media are constantly shifting, negotiated, contested, and divergent.
ARRAY[ ] is focused on art and design students, because these are populations that can operate outside of the bounds of acceptable behavior.
ARRAY[ ] is resistant to uncritical approaches to teaching contemporary media practices.
ARRAY[ ] is suspicious of concepts like "access," innovation," and "evidence-based strategies."
ARRAY[ ] is counter to cultures of training and certification.
ARRAY[ ] is interested in sociopolitical factors of interface, media, and distribution systems.
ARRAY[ ] is conscious of the complexity of learning over time.
ARRAY[ ] is intended to assist teachers and learners in reducing fear, and increasing agency.
Our intention is to increase the number of students experiencing low-level approaches (as in command line prompts and programming) that remove as many layers of interface abstraction as possible. Specifically, we are offering an alternative to the standard "Creative Suite®" focused approach to new media aspects of art and design foundations. ARRAY[ ] offers examples of alternate models and methods of learning, collaboration, and relevant responses to art/design edu outside of higher education, all from a standpoint of practical and friendly curriculum for the introduction of complex ideas and processes. - j.duran, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Parris Westbrook, ARRAY[ ] Project Founders
ARRAY[ ] is independent, and non-corporate. Our editors, developers, advisors, contributors, and organizers are all teachers and professors deeply invested in education.
ARRAY[ ] is a repository of knowledge based on the idea that the “foundations” of new media are constantly shifting, negotiated, contested, and divergent.
ARRAY[ ] is focused on art and design students, because these are populations that can operate outside of the bounds of acceptable behavior.
ARRAY[ ] is resistant to uncritical approaches to teaching contemporary media practices.
ARRAY[ ] is suspicious of concepts like "access," innovation," and "evidence-based strategies."
ARRAY[ ] is counter to cultures of training and certification.
ARRAY[ ] is interested in sociopolitical factors of interface, media, and distribution systems.
ARRAY[ ] is conscious of the complexity of learning over time.
ARRAY[ ] is intended to assist teachers and learners in reducing fear, and increasing agency.
