New Media and Art Therapy
We gather, formulate and disseminate knowledge relevant to the use of new media, including digital technology, as viable and vibrant therapeutic media.
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We are the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) New Media special interest group who examines ideas, issues, trends and concerns related to the use of digital and new media in therapeutic practice. We were previously named the AATA Technology committee and have adapted our name to broaden our focus on all new and emerging technologies.
Meet the members:
Natalie Carlton
Laura Lengyel
Kelly Darke
Sze-Chin Lee & Zico
Debra Irizarry
Katie Hall
Nancy Choe
Heather Spooner
What We Do
New Media and Art Therapy's purpose is to gather, formulate and disseminate knowledge relevant to the use of new media, including digital technologies, as therapeutic media. This AATA special interest group examines ideas, issues, trends, and concerns related to the use of new media in therapeutic practice. We facilitate papers, panels, and workshops at annual conferences but also research, teach, and disseminate reflective practice techniques and approaches.
PRACTICE
This New Media website and group exists to connect art therapists to resources that define and discuss best practices for new media in clinical work. We wish to foster the exploration and inclusion of digital/new media arts in an expanding art therapy media palette through occasional reviews of software and apps as they become available, by the future provision of an ongoing reference data base, and by introducing and displaying interdisciplinary projects on this website.
EDUCATION
The New Media group fosters the inclusion of new media & the digital arts into accredited art therapy graduate/undergraduate curriculum by supporting and modeling a growing network of new media informed art therapy educators and practitioners.
RESEARCH
New Media and Art Therapy wishes to promote and make accessible to the AATA membership an eventual art therapy data base of research and publications regarding digital and new media since 1975. We write, present at national and international conferences, and we collaborate.
ETHICS
New Media and Art Therapy cultivates parameters of technological use in art therapy, to further establish and standardize protocols, approaches, and best practices. In collaboration with the Ethics Committee, it will address issues of confidentiality, client rights to produced work, safe storage of sensitive information within digital media products, informed consent, and digital literacy.