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Austin, New York City, NY  \nAbstract  \nThis viewpoint reviews several historical positions on the relationship between technology and creativity, and their implications for the practice of art therapy in the techno-digital age. The author posits that the question remains unanswered as to whether the profession will accept and become fully proficient in the use of the computer as a true creative and therapeutic medium. Because art therapists work with fantasy, projection, symbol, and metaphor, they are well positioned to contribute a unique perspective on the impact of technology on the creative process and on emotional life.  \nThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice  \nA scene from Walt Disney’s (1940) animated film Fantasia offers a cautionary tale about our relationship to the machines we set in motion. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”begins with a weary Mickey Mouse, exhausted from carrying buckets of water. He pauses, wiping his sweaty brow, to watch as his master skillfully conjures a beautiful butterfly. Donning the sorcerer’s magic cap after his master departs, Mickey bids an ordinary broom to do his labors. Free of his chores, Mickey is lulled to sleep by the repetitive actions of the broom. Dreaming that he controls the heavens as well asthe oceans, a wonderful water dance ensues with Mickey as nature’s conductor. Rising water eventually knocks sleeping Mickey off his chair. To his horror the unstoppable broom, emptying bucket after bucket of water, has flooded the entire room. Exasperated, Mickey takes an ax to the broom in an attempt to stop it. Each splinter of broom now comes to life, and hundreds of bucket-carrying brooms march mechanically onward with bucket after bucket pouring forth water. A nearly drowning Mickey searches the sorcerer’s secret charm book in vain for instructions on how to stop the brooms. The master finally returns to disperse the dark waters and a defeated Mickey resumes his manual labor.  \nWith the inanimate object come to life as a labor saving machine, Mickey has the leisure to let his unconscious reign. He has a dream that is wonderfully reflective of both the wish to control nature and of the relationship dreams have to reality. The water in the dream increases its flow asthe literal water is rising. While Mickey is dreaming he  \nEditor’s note: Brian D. Austin, MPS, is the Founder and Director of The Animation Project, a New York City non-profit organization offering emerging technology in creative arts therapies services to adolescents. Correspondence concerning this view  \npoint may be sent [to brian@theanimationproject.org](to brian@theanimationproject.org)  \nstops paying attention to the object he had set in motion. He nearly drowns in rushing water, the kind of imagery Jung (1990) must have had in mind when he referred to water as “a living symbol of the dark psyche” (p. 17) .  \nTo view this scene as a reminder to remain attentive to the power of machines is no mere academic exercise. The current global financial crisis has been scrutinized in light of our over-reliance on the ultimate machine, the computer. A recent New York Times editorial framed the current economic meltdown as the result of relegating complex financial calculations to computer programs, which “like mad sorcerers’ apprentices” (Dooling, 2008, p. 2) have run amok. In uncanny closeness to Mickey’s dilemma, another article referred to the human managers of these machines as having been “asleep at the switch” and “lulled into a complacent lack of attention” (Kurzweil, as cited in Edsall, 2008,¶ 34). These reports echo the animated scene’s warning that what we set in motion may well overwhelm us.  \nThe Fantasia scene offers many threads to follow: from technology’s mesmerizing repetitive motions that dull our senses and lull us to sleep, to its unprecedented capacity to splinter off into limitless, identical copies. 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