eCreate Mandate

The eCreate Lab seeks to undermine the expected and traditional nature of a humanities computer lab as a place solely for technology and its access. Instead we are implementing programs in the eCreate that privilege people and collaboratory practices. We find ways to encourage active learning, participatory cultural projects and the creation of personal media. Toward this end, The Lab supports digital research, advises in the creation of technological resources and provides innovative solutions to technological issues as a part of the digital research efforts of UTA's English Department graduate students and faculty. It provides education, training and ideas (including a mandatory Technological Proficiency Accreditation), as well as access to cutting-edge systems and software and the potential for a transcultural exchange with scholars in and from Mexico City. The eCreate Lab continually upgrades and expands its equipment in order to meet teaching and research in the department.

The ongoing mission of eCreate is to foster innovative work across a broad spectrum of media, areas, and departments – drawing on the fields of humanities computing, the new media arts, and interdisciplinary and transcultural explorations of all kinds – to support and enhance the teaching of literary concerns through the integration of technology in the classroom, the study of born-digital forms, the creation of learning objects and other resources, and to assist in finding technological solutions. We offer workshops, one-on-one training, and a space for interdisciplinary work.