Abstract
Art therapy and music therapy, as well as other arts-based approaches and interventions, help to mitigate symptoms in serious and chronic diseases and to improve the well-being and quality of life for both healthy individuals and patients. Artistic creation is also researched and practiced intending to empower and understand individuals, groups, and communities. However, much research is required in order to learn how arts-based approaches operate and to enhance their effectivity. The complex and simultaneous occurrences involving the dynamics of the creation work, the client, and the therapist in a typical arts setting are difficult to grasp, consequently affecting their objective analyses. Here we employ our Computational Paradigm which enables the quantitative and rigorous tracking, analyzing, and documenting of the underlying dynamic processes, and describe its application in recent past and current real-world art and music studies with human participants. We aim to study emergent artistic behaviors of individuals and collectives in response to art and music making. Significant insights obtained include demographic variation factors such as gender and age, empirical behavioral patterns, and quantitative expressiveness and its change. We discuss the implications of the findings for therapy and research, such as causality for behavioral diversification and audio-visual cross-modality, and also offer directions for future applications and technology enhancements.
Highlights
Arts-based approaches and interventions, such as arts therapies, are practiced to alleviate symptoms and induce psychosocial and therapeutic effects in a wide range of serious and chronic illnesses, conditions, and mental disorders, such as cancer, Parkinson, Alzheimer, physical disabilities, and schizophrenia
Documentation Module We have enabled the empirical reporting of artistic behavioral patterns, hoping to devise an appropriate formal language for depicting the dynamics of the arts-based session
The observed potential connections between art and music may contribute to the research of audio-visual cross-modality
Summary
Arts-based approaches and interventions, such as arts therapies, are practiced to alleviate symptoms and induce psychosocial and therapeutic effects in a wide range of serious and chronic illnesses, conditions, and mental disorders, such as cancer, Parkinson, Alzheimer, physical disabilities, and schizophrenia. Empirical Art and Music Making symptoms are mitigated by the use of art therapy (McNiff, 1992; Tusek et al, 1999; Nainis et al, 2006; Bar-Sela et al, 2007; Richardson et al, 2007; Thyme et al, 2009; Czamanski-Cohen et al, 2014), music therapy (Guzzetta, 1989; Pacchetti et al, 2000; Burns et al, 2001; Hilliard, 2003; Gold et al, 2004, 2009; Dileo, 2006; Dassa and Amir, 2014; Chang et al, 2015; Chen et al, 2016; Zhao et al, 2016; Hense and McFerran, 2017), dance/movement therapy (Sandel et al, 2005; Kiepe et al, 2012; Koch et al, 2014), drama therapy, and more (Graham et al, 2008; Rmunah, 2019) This is done for healthy individuals and for patients, in diverse age groups and populations, enhancing one’s well-being, quality of life, and ability to cope (Malchiodi, 2012; Skeja, 2014; Wang et al, 2014). Much research is required to unveil the underlying mechanisms by which such arts-based approaches operate and to improve their effectivity (Greenberg, 1994; Bell, 2002; Jones, 2005; Perruza and Kinsella, 2010; Stuckey and Nobel, 2010; McLean, 2014)
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