Program Structure
AME is an interdisciplinary network of faculty and students with a transdisciplinary core working under a common, use-inspired research and education agenda.
Interdisciplinary Network:
AME participants include faculty from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education, and the Department of Psychology.
More than 20 faculty members from these units are involved in AME research and education. Participants from other academic units and external collaborators (e.g. industry partners, K-12 educators, guest artists and medical doctors), complete the network.
Transdisciplinary Core:
AME has its own faculty and joint appointments with collaborating units. AME faculty members specialize in integrative media development. AME has laboratories dedicated to experiential media development, with administrative and technical staff specialists to support transdisciplinary work in media.
Jessica Mumford,
M.F.A. Dance
AME was one of the few programs which offered me the chance to work in a truly interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary setting, where I could expand my own knowledge and interests into new and unknown avenues. Our Enactive Arts group is truly a collaboration, so much so that it would be absolutely impossible for any of us to do what we are doing by ourselves.
Stjepan Rajko,
Ph.D. Computer Science, M.F.A. Dance
When trying to connect things like dance and computer science, it helps to have one of the best dance departments in the country and a program like AME, which has wonderful facilities and even better people. ASU's support for transdisciplinary research and education makes it possible to leverage all these resources simultaneously. Individuals with transdisciplinary education are significant to innovation. Working with multiple disciplines gives us an opportunity to think in different ways, and to see things from different perspectives. It can change the way we see and apply our knowledge.