Sentences with phrase «touch 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).
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In some ways, Martin's work turns these distinctions on their head, using mirror - touch synaesthesia to render virtual or remote activities indistinguishable from literal actions.
People affected with mirror touch synaesthesia experience a physical sense of touch on their own bodies when they see other people, or sometimes even objects, being touched.
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».
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.
This publication centres on a 16 mm film, Sensorium Tests, which emerged from artist Daria Martin's research into «mirror - touch synaesthesia».