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Art Therapy Chronicles

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Critical Digital Making in Art Education

Chapter One: Toward a Practice of Digital-Handicraft
co-authored by Mary Callahan (MC) Baumstark and Theresa Slater

This book integrates the three fields critical theory, digital art making, and pedagogy, drawing from scholarship and practices of new media, social practice and community-based arts interventions, and arts education pedagogy. Our chapter speculates emergent themes in the practice of the digital-handicraft, a hybridized field of making by considering the sense of touch, and its implications in interdisciplinary artmaking, new pedagogical models, and alternative modes of organizing and resisting.

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MA Thesis "Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects"

This thesis hypothesizes ways in which contemporary theory constructs sensual qualities in digital objects. I disrupt the common epistemological understandings of objects to describe what constitutes a sensual alterity. The sensible object is defined to be something more than representing a real object.This thesis expands upon demonstration files available in breve, an open-source, multi-agent simulation software. The digital object substructure is unpacked through the lenses of theorists Karan Barad and Graham Harman. I negotiate digital bodies as vertices and attributes to be ontologically stable. I formulate rasterization (transferring vector to pixel visualization) to be a model of the intraactions
(assemblage of causal forces) of agential separability (practice of mattering) showcasing the apparatus as inexhaustible in its penetrative cut. I explore this sensual exteriority and apply the apparatus of touch to indicate the capacity of digital objects to experience otherness, or sensual alterity.

Keywords: object, digital, simulation, sensual, apparatus, boundary, touch, alterity, rasterization, exteriority.

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Creative Techniques Handbook: Design Fiction

Design Fiction encourages the building of a story and the world around a product, where by practitioners develop insights regarding their products use and form as well as its relation to the world around it. Co-authored and developed by Theresa Slater and Adam Owen. Creative Techniques Handbook 2015 Digital Futures OCAD University. Published by Suzanne Stein 2015.

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Art Therapy Chronicles

Critical Digital Making in Art Education

MA Thesis "​Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects"

Creative Techniques Handbook: Design Fiction

MA Thesis "Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects"