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1. Re: Synesthesia
2. Re: Synesthesia / "DigArt2008"
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From: rmalina@prontomail.com
Subject: Re: Synesthesia
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:18:44 +0200
yasminers
our synesthesia discussion seems to have run out
of steam !
for the discussion= i am just reading a book by
Jonah Lehrer "Proust was a neuroscientist" Houghton Mifflin 2007.
which
argues that artists and writers are able to explore
specific functioning of the cognitive system through their works.
Lehrer disusses Walt Whitman ( how emotions can prime and alter perception and embodiment in specific), George Eliot ( on free will and determinism), Auguste Scoffier ( on plasticity of smell and taste), Proust ( on malleability of memory), Cezanne ( how the visual cortex organises incoming visual data), Stravinksy, Gertrude Stein and Virgina Woolf.
He argues convincingly how scientific ideas are embedded in the cultural imaginary of their time. He argues against the idea of a third culture, but rather for enabling meaningful interaction between artistic and scientific cultures.
He makes a statement that I think is stimulating about the important of exploring areas that are at the limits of scientific understanding, and that in these terrains artists explore territory that in turn feeds into creative activity that resolves mysteries at those limits. It is interesting to note that many of the artists and writers he discusses were very much scientifically literate about the current scientific discoveries and controversies of their time.
William James and Whitman interacted, and Whitman's work on phantom limbs of amputees was original experimental observation.
i havent quite finished the book yet- but the discussion of stravinksy could be a springboard for a discussion of synesthetic artists and current neorobiology
roger
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From: vkorakidou@yahoo.gr
Subject: Re: Synesthesia / "DigArt2008"
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:06:20 +0200
Yasminers,
I would like to draw your attention on two events which will receive Intl Jnl publication for selected articles. Call for papers is out now - DigArt & ArtAbilitation 2008: 2 Special Intl Jnl Art & Technology Issues
The Digital Art Conference "DigArt2008" Call for Papers for the special issue of Intl Jnl Art & Technology is now on the Inderscience website http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=901
Topics that are solicited include but are not limited to:
Games and digital art
Case studies and evaluations of deployments
Analysis of key challenges, proposals of research agenda
Relation of digital art and embedded interaction to other paradigms
Programming tools, toolkits, software architectures
Emergent methodologies of study, analysis and refinement
Novel interactive uses of sensors + actuators, electronics + mechatronics
Iterative production processes
Associated neuroesthetics
Digital art, the brain and languages
Cybernetic associations
Design guidelines, methods, and processes
Novel application areas, innovative solutions/systems
Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts
Philosophical, ethical and social implications
Projecting performance
Toys as digital art, digital art toys
The embodied play
Visual music
Dance, music, interactive theatre and cinema
Cross-modal representations in digital art
Interfaces specific to particular genres
Sonic synthesis, sound modelling
Usability and enjoyment, aesthetics and design, issues of production
Advantages and weaknesses of digital art
Inherent learning
New media and medialogy
Emergent objects
Performance art
Articulating difference
A critique of the adoption into the arts
Digital art as playground, playground as digital art
Societal potentials beyond art
Embodied interaction, movement, and choreography of interaction
Digital Art and related human perception, cognition and experience issues
Teaching digital art, interaction design, and best practices
Also, details of the 3rd ArtAbilitation conference and call for papers for the special ArtAbilitation issue of Intl Jnl Art & Technology is now on the Inderscience website : http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=204
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