Artificial Intelligence, Gender, and Autism Note: This post was originally written years ago and reflects an earlier stage of AI development. When artificial intelligence first entered the public conversation, one of the standout moments was IBM’s Watson defeating top human players on Jeopardy!. At the time, it raised a simple question: if a machine can […]
De kooning said that the goal of the painting is to make the invisible visible. Art therapy makes implicit memory explicit. There is a really interesting triangulation to be observed between the fields of art, psychotherapy and neurology. Painters study the brain from experience. They are accessing neurological information through the constant interplay between sensation
Intuitive Process in Painting Recently, my style of painting involves splashing paint onto the canvas with my brush. I smear and disperse a selected palette of two or three toned down colours and their composites across the surface in a seemingly haphazard way. It seems like chaos but it is actually a process guided
Rationale Art therapists are looking for therapeutic dimensions inherent to creative process. We want to know if certain techniques or mediums can contribute positively to therapeutic outcomes and whether any observable outcomes could be cross culturally valid or individually specific. Beyond that, we often wonder how certain formal (manifest) or symbolic (latent) content in
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Art used to belong to the people. It was made in caves out of compulsion and impulse based in a need to relay the narrative. A few thousand years later, someone realized that Art`s creations were things of beauty. Testimonials of human experience and infact our very humanity itself. It soon became apparent that the
Like most art therapists, I would rather devote my time and energy to prevention of mental illness rather than curing. Wouldn?t it be more productive to address the roots of our sickness as a people rather than treating the symptoms? A preventative model of health care aims to prevent rather than cure and that is
Consider this: Art therapy and gender constructs Consider this: On Art Therapy in Society Art therapy and Social Constructs: Gender. Upon entering my classes on the first day, I did not notice anything peculiar about my immediate environment but around my second week of studies it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was
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