Scott: You know, courses we teach and we take, and graduate seminars, and even our professional lives... we often read alone, and then we come together and we talk about what we've read and we do some further analysis, but we almost always write alone.

Cindy: Oh yeah.

Scott: We don't create those spaces. And I think that's another thing that DMAC does really well, is that there's a lot of studio time built into DMAC where people can engage in that production, and they're always doing that with people all over the place--they're surrounded by other people doing that exact same thing.

Cindy: And the more complex these texts get--the longer, more dimensional, more sophisticated, more nuanced, more layered these texts get--the more necessary that collaboration is. It's very difficult, I think, to create a really dimensional, multimodal text all on your own, because there are so many skills and understandings that are needed in that particular project. And we're finding this out when we have born-digital book-length projects and article-length projects. Sometimes it really does take a village to compose a text. And I think we try to make room in DMAC for that kind of work as well.