The Unconscious, by definition, is unconscious . . .. Consequently, how do art therapists know that something pertaining to the realm of the unconscious is manifesting itself in a session? Pondering the implications of using a psychoanalytic framework in art therapy while advocating for the validity of such an approach within the contemporary practice of art therapy, this paper proposes a refle...

Accurate representational learning of both the explicit and implicit relationships within data is critical to the ability of machines to perform more complex and abstract reasoning tasks. We describe the efficient weakly supervised learning of such inferences by our Dynamic Adaptive Network Intelligence (DANI) model. We report state-of-the-art results for DANI over question answering tasks in t...

An emerging body of research suggests that artists consistently seek modes of representation that are efficiently processed by the human visual system, and that these shared properties could leave statistical signatures. In earlier work, we showed evidence that perceived similarity of representational art could be predicted using intensity statistics to which the early visual system is attuned,...

artworks are different in terms of creation, application, function, interpretation and finally meaning. sometimes, we don’t know the meaning of a picture or a literal text. human perceptual media and cognitive faculties are confused. the understanding of artworks is difficult. the ready-mades have disrupted the rules of the aesthetic judgment. the recognition of art from non-art is not the work...

A description of the processes central to the evolution of art from sculpted earthen forms early in human existence to paintings in museums of the modern world is absent in scholarly literature (Gombrich, 1972; Spivey, 2005). The present manuscript offers a memetic theory of art evolution demonstrating typological transitions of art in the period post the 3-dimensional to 2-dimensional transiti...

Contemporary Iranian art, being affected by social context and events, and also sociological issues, has a critical approach. One of the formats that contemporary art uses to represent body and its pain is grotesque. Grotesque is a concept diversified over time which includes new definitions in contemporary art and contrasts with common principles of representation. The question is that why the...

This article focuses on the problem of representational content. Accounting for representational content is the central issue in contemporary naturalism: it is the major remaining task facing a naturalistic conception of the world. Representational content is also the central barrier to contemporary cognitive science and artificial intelligence: it is not possible to understand representation i...