Ariel Garten

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| name = Ariel Garten

| image = Ariel Garten Playing Quintephone at ICMC2007imgp7900cpq.jpg

| alt = Ariel Garten Playing Quintephone at ICMC2007

| caption = Ariel Garten Playing Quintephone

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|09|24}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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| known_for = co-founder of InteraXon

| occupation = artist, fashion designer, executive

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Ariel Garten (born September 24, 1979) is a Canadian artist, scientist and intellectualThe National Post "Creative Chemistry' Sept 9, 2003 known for her work in integrating art and science. She is the co-founder and former CEO of InteraXon.

Early life and education

Garten was born in Toronto. She is the daughter of Irving Garten and visual artist Vivian Reiss, who is known for her large scale oil on canvas works. Her brother is Joel Garten. Her grandmother was a holocaust survivor.{{Cite web |last=Venkatraman |first=Arun |date=2015-06-21 |title=A Fashionable Tale |url=https://www.pressreader.com/india/the-asian-age/20150621/283983240987839 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Press Reader}} Garten attended Northern Secondary School in Toronto and completed the school's biotechnology program. In 2002, she graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in biology and psychology with a neuroscience designation.{{Cite web |last=Vincent |first=Donovan |date=2016-01-03 |title=Muse meditation device melds science and style for Toronto co-creator |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/03/muse-meditation-device-melds-science-and-style-for-toronto-co-creator.html |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Toronto Star |language=en}}

Career

Garten began designing and selling t-shirts when she was 17.{{Cite web |last=Webb |first=Margaret |date=2004-06-10 |title=Ariel Garten, Fashion Designer |url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/ariel-garten-fashion-designer/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=University of Toronto Magazine |language=en-US}} After graduating university, she opened Flavour Hall, a clothing store on College Street. She designed clothes for her eponymous clothing line, Ariel,{{Cite web |last=Sirant |first=Zenya |date=2004-03-18 |title=By Design Right |url=https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/by-design-right |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=NOW Magazine |language=en-US}} which debuted at Toronto Fashion Week in 2003. Garten closed Flavour Hall in 2005 to open a private psychotherapy practice.{{Cite news |last=Hansen |first=Darah |date=2014-10-07 |title=Mind-controlled computing: Look, Ma, no hands |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-managing/mind-controlled-computing-look-ma-no-hands/article20948227/ |access-date=2023-01-06}}

While running Flavour Hall, Garten began working with Steve Mann on an idea that would eventually become The Muse headband. Through Mann, she met Chris Aimone, with whom she would later co-found InteraXon. In 2009, Garten, Mann, and Trevor Coleman teamed up to work on their first contract. The trio founded InteraXon, a Canadian company specializing in software for Non-invasive Brain-computer interfaces."The Toronto Star" Feb 26, 2009 She served as the company's CEO until stepping down in 2015 due to her pregnancy.{{Cite web |last=Soltys |first=Douglas |date=2015-12-23 |title=Ariel Garten shares reasons behind decision to step down as InteraXon CEO |url=https://betakit.com/ariel-garten-shares-reasons-behind-decision-to-step-down-as-interaxon-ceo/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Beta Kit |language=en-CA}}

Garten lectures about interdisciplinary neuroscience topics, such as "The Neuroscience of Morals" (on TVO's Big Ideas televised lecture series), "The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy" and others), as well as psychotherapy and mental health.

Garten is also a psychotherapist trained in Neuro-linguistic programming."The Globe and Mail Toronto" April 21, 2007

She has performed in many venues, including The Power Plant, and shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Banff Center for the Arts. She gave a TEDx Talk in Toronto in 2011.{{Cite news |last=Hansen |first=Darah |date=2014-10-07 |title=Mind-controlled computing: Look, Ma, no hands |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-managing/mind-controlled-computing-look-ma-no-hands/article20948227/ |access-date=2023-01-06}} She has sold her fashion across North America, including Holt Renfrew in Toronto, and lectured in North America and Europe.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

Personal life

In 2016, Garten gave birth to her first child with Chris de Castro.

References

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{{cite news

| url = https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/03/muse-meditation-device-melds-science-and-style-for-toronto-co-creator.html

| title = Muse meditation device melds science and style for Toronto co-creator

| publisher = Toronto Star

| author = Donovan Vincent

| date = 2016-01-03

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| accessdate = 2016-01-03

| quote = Born and raised in Toronto, Garten — who as InteraXon's "chief evangelist officer" is the main face of Muse — has a wide-ranging background that encompasses neuroscience, a psychotherapy practice and fashion design.

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{{cite news

| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/canadian-company-develops-thought-control-technology-which-uses-brain-waves/article1658920/

| title = Canadian company develops technology controlled by brain waves, which recently was honored at the Premier's Innovations Awards

| work = The Globe and Mail

| date = 2010-08-01

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150204024702/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-company-develops-thought-control-technology-which-uses-brain-waves/article4251728/

| archivedate = 2015-02-04

| accessdate = 2016-01-03

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| quote = Garten predicts the headset will eventually become as small as a wireless bluetooth device and the technology will be available in big-box stores, like Best Buy, within two years.

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{{cite news

|url = http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/magazine/renaissance-woman-wearable-computing-maven-ariel-garten

|title = Renaissance Woman: Wearable computing maven Ariel Garten

|publisher = University of Toronto magazine

|author = Jennifer McIntyre

|date = Spring 2013

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150920123548/http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/magazine/renaissance-woman-wearable-computing-maven-ariel-garten

|archivedate = 2015-09-20

|accessdate = 2016-01-03

|url-status = dead

|quote = Due out on the market in mid-2013, Muse is the brainchild (so to speak) of the multi-talented Ariel Garten (BSc 2002 UC) and her colleagues at Toronto's InteraXon Inc.

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{{cite news

| url = http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/winterlicious-event---art-sense-ational-the-neuroscience-of-molecular-gastronomy---ariel-garten-and-vivian-reiss-56887387.html

| title = Winterlicious Event - "Art Sense-ational: The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy" - Ariel Garten and Vivian Reiss

| publisher = Reiss Gallery

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| date = 2008-01-11

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| accessdate = 2016-01-03

| quote = Garten lectures about Molecular Gastronomy, the hottest topic in the world of cuisine. It uses science to explore how food is transformed and allows flavours and textures to be isolated and recombined in surprising and delightful ways.

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{{cite news

| url = http://fitc.ca/speaker/arielgarten/

| title = Ariel Garten: full bio

| publisher = Future. Innovation. Technology. Creativity.

| date = 2008-01-11

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924190341/http://fitc.ca/speaker/arielgarten/

| archivedate = 2015-09-24

| accessdate = 2016-01-03

| url-status = live

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