The Los Angeles hive at Loyola Marymount University closes the day, mixing research on social robots, live interviews with artists and a series of short immersive works.
Welcome message
Welcome from the marital and family therapy and clinical art therapy department at Loyola Marymount University, with an introduction to the hive schedule.
Host: Xilomen Rios, LMFT, ATR BC, MFA
Robots in art therapy: social robots, art therapy and art based research
What is a social robot? What do we gain and lose by accepting social robots into our lives? Working with roboticists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the presenter researched the social connectedness of older adults using a social robot, and reflected through art journals on the experience of researching older adults and robotic technology.
Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR BC, artist and board certified registered art therapist
Communicating between media: back and forth between physical and digital spaces
Mixed media approaches lend richness to the resulting artwork. Art therapists exploring and researching with new media have access to an expanded palette of potential materials. The presentation covers physical and digital art created in research and clinical contexts, focusing on how mixing materials results in deeper understanding.
Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR BC
Group digital art therapy for adults with autism
The presentation describes the framework of a new group digital art therapy programme at a centre for autism. It highlights the role of the art therapists, the digital applications and art based interventions introduced to group members, and the overall programme.
Olena Darewych, PhD, RP, RCAT, registered psychotherapist in Ontario, registered Canadian art therapist, and adjunct faculty at Adler University and Wilfrid Laurier University
Digital art therapy in practice: the autism centre at Lawson Ministries Hamilton
The video illustrates how individuals on the autism spectrum can use digital art applications and creative problem solving applications to develop essential skills and take part in activities that meet their needs.
Olena Darewych, PhD, RP, RCAT, and Peter. Olena is past president of the Canadian Art Therapy Association.
Exploring virtual reality environments for stress reduction and improved mood
A virtual reality headset is recommended. This thesis project is conducted in a controlled environment. Two short clips of nature environments in virtual reality are shown after the presentation.
Sarah Kral, graduate student at Notre Dame de Namur University, and Berto Mora, virtual reality producer at a creative agency based in San Francisco
Expressive remix therapy: digital media art with adolescents
Step into the here and now by engaging clients using digital media art. Learn how to use digital resources in creative ways while making art at the same time.
Jeffrey L. Jamerson, PhD, and Jenny Hoit, LMFT, ATR. Jeff has over 20 years of experience serving at risk youth and families and integrated narrative and expressive arts modalities with digital media art.
Graduate students' video project and an interview with faculty
A student video project and an interview clip with Anthony Bodlovic, programme director at Loyola Marymount University, on considerations for applying digital media in art therapy practice, followed by an interview clip with Kathleen Fogel Richmond, practicum coordinator.
Anthony Bodlovic, PhD, LMFT, ATR, and Kathleen Fogel Richmond, MA, LMFT, ATR
Round table discussion: how does digital technology impact art therapy?
Einat Metzl and the program's graduate students share experiences and observations about digital media use in art therapy.
Einat Metzl, PhD, LMFT, ATR BC, chair and associate professor. Graduate students: Pauline Gola, Anya Kavanaugh and Nicole Rademacher. Moderated by Nancy Choe, LMFT, ATR, MFA
Textures, colours and planes for a new Internet
Priyanka Ram, an artist based in Los Angeles with a background in advertising, discusses her use of traditional painting to critique current digital culture, and her interest in how the emotional qualities of shapes, colours and tones in digital space can be explored through traditional media in physical space.
Priyanka Ram, artist
Universal peace
A virtual reality headset is recommended. This explorative and experimental series of imagery and sound is produced for the purpose of attaining inner peace through focused meditation. The work addresses violence, environment, discrimination, self and disease.
Paz Fernandez, artist and graphic designer. In 2015 her work was the official jury selection for a poster competition and was displayed at the White House.
Dance in two parts
Artist and art therapist Xilomen Rios explores performance art using video. The work may be read as a two part choreography, the journey around the frame culminating in the fingers crossing, and as a dance involving two parts of a body.
Ruth Xilomen Rios, LMFT, ATR BC, MFA
Trauma response: an excerpt from Lullabies for the Psychotic
Trauma Response is the first section of a text and sound work that explores the way the body, as the locus of language, produces a sense of itself and reacts and reifies trauma through submitting itself to re writing. The pre recorded work deals with the architecture of trauma, and in digital form explores a new way for an audience to experience literary sound work.
Pauline Gloss, literary sound artist
Radical Cram School
Radical Cram School is a six episode, unscripted web series in which performance artist and comedian Kristina Wong explores social justice with Asian American girls and nonbinary children. The series uses puppets, songs, games and comedy to help children name constructs they see every day. It has gathered over half a million views across digital platforms. Learn more at kristinawong.com.
Kristina Wong, performance artist and comedian
Final discussion and closing statement
Closing of the Los Angeles hive and of the symposium broadcast.
Host: Xilomen Rios
Thank you for joining
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