Digital Wheel Art by Younghyun Chung is an interactive system using a Wii remote, an infrared LED, Bluetooth, a wheelchair and some programing know how. Read more about it on Younghyun’s website.
Digital Wheel Art from YoungHyun Chung on Vimeo.
Runner Sex Distinction Controversy
In a recent article by the New York Times, an issue I was previously unaware of is discussed. When a masculine looking woman appears in the international running scene and she begins beating seasoned professionals or perhaps breaking her previous running records, suspicions are raised. One would think that the runner would be investigated for doping, and while that is usually the case, the runner may also be examined for whether or not she is female.
As is briefly explained in the article, what makes us male and female is not as cut and dry as many people believe, making the sex distinction issue in sports a difficult one. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be in the Caster Semenya’s position— to have worked so hard, only to be suspected of being male and later perhaps being found to be of the opposite sex than what she has been raised to believe.
Yet another reminder that trauma has many sources and that the world is rarely black and white.
Lying Robots
Read about the evolution of lying in robots.
Fascinating!
Art Therapy Around the World #4
The Combat Paper Project encourages Iraq war veterans to create art pieces integrating their uniforms with paper making techniques in Savannah, GA.
Read about Poppy Scheibel’s work with Alzheimer’s patients in the Sarasota-Manatee Florida area.
Studio Sfumato in Oregon teams up with the Children’s Advocacy Center to provide a 5 week art therapy program and fundraising project for teens who have experienced abuse.
An article featuring an art therapy program in the Clayton Residential Home, Chicago IL, a residential facility for over 200 individuals suffering from a mental illness.
Read about a 5 year old in Omaha suffering from cancer and how the art therapy program at the Omaha’s Children’s Hospital and Medical Center has helped her stay in contact with her childhood.
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center near Chicago, IL, integrates creative arts therapies, including art and dance movement therapies into their treatment philosophy.
Sidewalk Therapy
Ever notice how while walking down the street, you find yourself reviewing the day’s events in your mind or perhaps preparing for a social interaction to come? On the streets of NYC you may come across some helpful questions on the pavement, supporting further processing of these thoughts while you walk. In her work titled Sidewalk Psychiatry, Candy Chang is responsible for these messages, encouraging the viewer to reframe their thought processes or take their ponderings a little deeper.