About ATEC

We reside in the chaotic space between Arts & Technology. It is here where art, technology, business, and society merge and opportunity is found. Leading to the B.A., M.A. or M.F.A., the Arts and Technology program is Texas' first comprehensive degree designed to explore and foster the convergence of computer science and engineering with creative arts and the humanities. A joint creation of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Arts and Humanities, the Art and Technology (ATEC) program is a collaborative effort that transcends existing disciplines and academic units.

At first it seems an odd fit: an artist working alongside a gamer, performance artist, programmer, journalist, designer, sound engineer. But it’s this combination of students, faculty, and their ideas that allow ATEC students to intuitively solve the problems of today while creating tomorrow.

Beyond merely a "multidisciplinary" or "interdisciplinary" scope, ATEC encourages the productive convergence of disparate fields and modes of thinking. It joins science with the humanities, creativity with technology, theory with practice, and learning with research. There are no maps showing the way, just students with diverse interests, talents, and a skewed way of looking at the ever-changing world. Students master emerging tools, form unexpected relationships, collaborate, and create the future.

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