Ariel Garten
Ariel Garten
Ariel Gartenis a Canadian artist, scientist and intellectual. She was an avant garde clothing designer with a store called Flavour Hallin Toronto, Canada. She is deemed to have made a "significant contribution to the field" for her work in integrating art and science. She is pursuing cutting edge art and performances in other media, including dance, music, percussion, and cutting-edge instruments. She creates work that explores the intersection of art and neuroscience...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth24 September 1979
CountryCanada
Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.
Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.
I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.
I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.
Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.
To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.
Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.
Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?
Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.
You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.
I was always exploring relationships between art and science.
The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.