We are happy to announce that ArrayList, starts on June 1, 2015. Sign up for this new listserv here: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/arraylist
The purpose of ArrayList is to connect new media artists, designers, educators, theorists, producers, activists, and organizers while facilitating critical discussion about foundation level new media pedagogy (both inside and outside traditional academic structures). For those new to the listserv format, a listserv is an archived thread of email conversation. Subscribe to the listserv so that you can read and/or respond to the written activity. We hope to engage a wide range of critical perspectives so please chime in with thoughts and questions. Sincerely, j.duran, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Parris Westbrook, ARRAY[ ] founders
JUNE 2015 THEME
New Media Foundations: 3D art/design, fabrication, prototyping
JUNE 2015 GUEST THREAD LEADERS
Tom Burtonwood, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Practices, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Tom Burtonwood is an artist and educator. Like many people he discovered 3D printing by way of the laser cutter and quickly became enamored by the alchemy of it all. more info: tomburtonwood.com
Jenna Frye, Professor, Foundation Department | Coordinator of Electronic Media and Culture (EMAC), Maryland Institute College of Art
Jenna Frye is a researcher, designer, and educator. “I teach, I make stuff, I talk about teaching and making stuff.” more info: http://jennafrye.com
Taylor Hokanson, Assistant Professor, Art + Design, Columbia College Chicago
Taylor Hokanson is an artist, educator and open source hardware advocate. His research revolves around the creative opportunities formed by online communities and computer-aided fabrication tools. This research informs carefully engineered objects that question the myth of singular authorship, our expectations of post-digital functionality, and the absurdity of human-human and human-computer interaction. more info: lynda.com (search Hokanson), taylorhokanson.com, diylilcnc.org
Meg Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Digital Foundations, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Meg Mitchell creates work in diverse media from video, to performance, digital media and interactive installations. She uses humor to subvert formalist readings of her work, and to play with the boundaries between the conceptual and the physical spaces her work occupies. Mitchell borrows from a diverse range of sources such as Greek drama, contemporary advertising, camp, cinema, art history, and media representations of technological progress. more info: www.megmitchell.com
