Just released, the essays in this volume — all written between 2011 and 2015 — bring together pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso, Kiefer and Susan Sontag, as well as extensive considerations of the mind / body problem and essays tackling elusive neurological disorders such
as synaesthesia and hysteria, alongside a towering reconsideration of Kierkegaard.
Not exact matches
G. B. Caird classifies comparison into one of four classes: perceptual that appeal to any of the five senses,
synaesthesia «is the use of connection with one of the senses of terms which are proper to another,
as when we speak of sharp words (Is.
We found that
as many
as 21 % of people may experience forms of this phenomenon, which makes it considerably more prevalent than other
synaesthesias.
People with
synaesthesia hear numbers in colour experience words
as tastes.
Edward Hubbard, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who has studied the neural basis of
synaesthesia, doubts that chimps experience the same range of synaesthesetic experiences
as humans.
He distinguishes perceptual quirks such
as the sound - colour correspondence from true
synaesthesia, which he believes emerges from associations between higher concepts, not crossed connections in brain areas that process senses.
Deming struggles with his schoolwork, but clearly has an aptitude for music and seems gifted with
synaesthesia — the mixing of senses — experiencing sounds
as vibrant colors.
Fagan uses
synaesthesia, digital media and interactive performance
as tools for developing a corresponding language between color and sound.
Daria Martin, Conversation with a Mirror - Touch Synaesthete While
synaesthesia has long been celebrated by artists
as an expansion of conventionally available sense, mirror - touch
synaesthesia, a newly discovered form, connects vision to social worlds.
The exhibition includes the following films: Closeup Gallery (2003), in which a magician and his assistant engage in a strange game where cards dance,
as if equivalent with inner worlds; Soft Materials (2004) where intimate relationships between man and machine are nurtured in an artificial intelligence laboratory; Harpstrings and Lava (2007) a dark narrative that animates dream images through clashing textures and structures; and the new film Sensorium Tests (2012), which revolves around a recently recognised neurological condition called «mirror - touch
synaesthesia».
Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who uses
synaesthesia, digital media and interactive performance
as tools for developing a corresponding language between color and sound in her work.
Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who uses
synaesthesia, digital media and interactive performance
as tools for developing a corresponding language between c...
In addition to her curatorial and gallery business, Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who uses
synaesthesia, digital media and interactive performance
as tools for developing a corresponding language between color and sound in her work.
Not merely illustrations of audio - visual
synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally
as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another.The range of frequencies detectable by the human ear is about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, and the visible light spectrum is 400 terahertz (red light) to 740 terahertz (violet light).
As if, Seeing in the Manner of Listening... Hearing, as if Looking comprises a body of site - specific works By Cerith Wyn Evans that stimulate synaesthesi
As if, Seeing in the Manner of Listening... Hearing,
as if Looking comprises a body of site - specific works By Cerith Wyn Evans that stimulate synaesthesi
as if Looking comprises a body of site - specific works By Cerith Wyn Evans that stimulate
synaesthesia.
The exhibition also approaches such expansive subjects
as the unconscious, dreams, affect, feminism, and intimacy
as well
as more unusual conditions such
as telekinesis,
as in Hiller's Wild Talents (1997) and mirror - touch
synaesthesia,
as in Martin's Sensorium Tests (2012).