Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

The invisible wound: Veterans' art therapy

On Armistice Day 2011, BBC2 broadcast a Culture Show special, entitled ‘Art for Heroes’, about art therapy with veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It involved the filming of an art therapy group at a Surrey treatment centre for veterans. This article is based on the transcript of that group and takes a thematic analysis approach towards understanding the benefits of art th...

Interactive Annealing for Understanding Invisible Dark Events

Experts of chance discovery have faced a new problem, where the previous methods fail to visualize a latent structure behind observation. Invisible events play an important role in the dynamics of visible events. They are called “dark events”. This paper proposes a new method named “human-interactive annealing” for revealing a latent structure and understanding dark events and illustrates pract...

The comics war.

CRITICIZING ART Understanding the Contemporary (excerpts)

Although a popular misconception about art criticism is that it is primarily judgmental and negative in tone, in actuality, most of the words written by critics are descriptive and interpretive rather than judgmental, and positive in tone. Critics seek to provide readers with information about artworks, and describing these artworks, many of which will not be seen by their readers. is one of th...

Mapping Conversations: Art and Understanding

Artists and designers are using graphics to indicate relationships within data, to show social and political dynamics between individuals and within groups. This work can be applied to online conversations, to mapping geographical spaces, and to create technologies that foster interaction within actual physical spaces (dance for example). What levels of graphic abstraction can humans understand...