Synesthesia Community News
New Painting by Timothy Layden
See magazine article
and spread of synesthete photographer, Marcia Smilack’s reflection
photos:
“Wondrous Water Works”
in magazine,
Vineyard Style, spring 2006
Also See:
The Most Beautiful Painting You've Ever Heard
article in SEED Magazine, Dec. 13, 2006, leading off with Marcia's work
and
Artist shares unique perception in photographs,
an Associated Press article in the Jan. 12, 2007 editions of the
Boston Globe,
Boston Herald,
Worcester Telegram,
New York Newsday,
Stamford Advocate and
Akron Beacon
Journal
Siri
Hustvedt on Migraine Auras
New York Times Online
New books on synesthesia...
The Emerging Mind...
Synesthesia Panel at Eyebeam: Center for Art & Technology, NY
San Francisco Art Institute
Colloquium on synesthesia
and the arts
Homage to Monet
featured in "The Synesthesia Evening"
on Martha's Vineyard
The Fourth Annual Conference of
the American Synesthesia Association, Inc
Hosted by Lynn Robertson,
University of California at Berkeley
Upcoming
events - Recent
events
Looking back 2007 - Looking back 2006
Looking back 2005 -
Looking back 2004
Media
events - Archives - Submit listings
Upcoming
events
26—28
September, 2008
The seventh annual ASA conference hosted by McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
www.synesthesia.info
New fall TV series with a synesthete-character?.... stay tuned!
Synesthesia Poetry Reading in New York City.... stay tuned!
First International Week: Fine Art-music, creativity and Synesthesia -
Experimental Didactic Workshops
Location: Castillo de los Velez, Cuevas del Almanzora, Almeria, Spain
Date: Second week of July, 2008
For more information, download this PDF
flyer
Fall 2007
Cretien Van Campen, The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and
Science (Leonardo Books) (Hardcover), MIT Press, 2007.
To find out more or to purchase:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11303
Link to book
review in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/450030a.html
Alexandra
Dittmar (Ed.): Synästhesien. Roter Faden durchs Leben
Essen (Germany), Verlag Die Blaue Eule 2007.
More about it:
http://www.dittmar.dusnet.de/syn/syn-book.html
The English
version of the book, which contains a variety of pieces written by
synesthetes, is scheduled to be published in 2008.
March 2007
Sensorium - a synesthesia evening
– at the Issue
Project Room, Brooklyn, New York – Screening of film, Chroma
by Carrie Schultz; reading of Blue Cats by Pat Duffy; presentations and
panel discussion by Carol Steen, Greta Berman
January 26-28, 2007
American Synesthesia
Association Conference
University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, FL
Looking
Back: 2006
Paris,
France, Dec. 8, 2006
Ed Hubbard gave a public lecture on
synesthesia, and the neuroscience of synesthesia, in French, at the
'Cafe des Arts et Des Sciences', and you can find pictures and videos of
that on their website at:
http://web.cast.free.fr/webcast22/webcast22.html
The 2nd International Conference on Synaesthesia, University of Hannover, Germany, Dec. 1 - 3, 2006
Sept. 16, 6:00 pm
The Enchanted Garden: Conservatory for the Arts
Presents Marcia Smilack, Reflectionist
529 Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7)
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-894-1987
enchantedgardenarts.com
May 19, 2006
Presentation by Pat Duffy and Natasha Lvovich,
On “Synesthesia, Language, and Language Learning”
12:00 noon-2:00 pm
New York University
Second Language Acquisition Research Circle
239 Greene St, New York NY 10003
Description: Synesthesia, a neuro-psychological blend of senses, may be an idiosyncratic way of coding and processing language. But could there be certain synesthetic elements in the way many of us process language?
March 27, 2006
Lecture by Dr. Hugo Heyrman
"The Art & Synesthesia Connection"
2-5 pm
at Transmedia: a postgraduate program in Arts + Media + Design,
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels
http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/index.htm
A closer look at 'the synesthetic experience' in connection with the Arts,
with a specific focus on the concept & theory of
'Tele-synesthesia'.
New Synesthesia Magazine
Syn is a new online magazine for synesthetes from creator, Claire Mills:
www.clairemills.co.uk/syn.html
New books
Synesthesia: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience
eds., Lynn Robertson and Noam Sagiv, Oxford University Press, 2004
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, V.S Ramachandran,
Tussen zinnen: Synesthesie of hoe de zintuigen samenwerken (Between Senses), 2005 (in Dutch), Crétien Van Campen
| The Fifth Annual National Conference of
the American Synesthesia Association, Inc.,
will take place on October 28-30, 2005 at the for details, go to
www.synesthesia.info
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Saturday November 5
Visual Art & the Brain: At the Interface of Art and Science
10 am--6 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
one-day conference exploring the nature of the science-art interface with speakers V.S. Ramachandran (UCSD), Felice Frankel (MIT), Margaret Livingstone (Harvard)
June 9 2005
Reboot Your Senses: A panel presentation on synesthesia in conjunction with the exhibition, "What sound does a color make?" at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, New York, NY
with Dr. Larry Marks, Yale University Pierce Laboratory
Patricia Lynne Duffy, author, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds
Dr. Eugenie Shinkle, game theorist of
Sega's Rez/K-Project
Lecturer in Photographic Theory and Criticism, University of
Westminster
*Moderator Mary McGuiness, journalist/partner, Sputnik Inc.
Featuring digital interviews provided by Sputnik Inc., with:
*Richard E. Cytowic, MD, neurologist
*Hinderk Emrich, psychiatrist, University of Hanover Medical School
March 28 2005
San Francisco Art Institute
Making Connections: Synesthesia and the Arts
A colloquium on synesthesia and the arts will be hosted by the San
Francisco Art Institute on Monday, March 28th, 7:30 p. m. Four
speakers will shed light on their research into, and personal experiences
with, the subject, and will offer an historical overview of how artists
have used the idea to develop complex structural relationships in their
work. Patricia Lynne Duffy, New York-based author of "Blue Cats and
Chartreuse Kittens," will be joined by Christopher Tyler, Associate
Director of the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, UCSF; visual
artist Jeanne Foss; and composer/Art Institute professor Charles Boone for
this lively presentation.
www.sfai.edu
April 15--17 2005
UK Synaesthesia Association meeting in
London on 15-17th April 2005 (Department of Psychology, 26 Bedford Way,
UCL).
Details can be found at: http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/agm.htm
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August 31--September 3 2005
Another event is a 10 speaker symposium which will be a part of the 14th
conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP).
The conference will take place from Wednesday August 31st to Saturday
September 3rd, 2005, in Leiden, The Netherlands.
More details will be available here: http://www.escop.nl/conference/
Synaesthesia: Recent findings and future directions.
Symposium organizers:
Alicia Callejas, Noam Sagiv, Juan Lupianez.
Speakers:
P. Merikle, N. Sagiv, J. Simner, J. Ward, C. Spence, A. Henik, C.
Mohr, A. Callejas, P. Weiss, E. Hubbard.
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November 5 - 7 2004 Fourth Annual Conference of the American Synesthesia Association University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience A great thank you once again to host Lynn Robertson of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, and to organizers and ASA board members Carol Steen and Sean Day for organizing an exhilarating conference that brought together a colorful mix of researchers from the science and arts communities. A special thanks to wonderful keynote speaker, Daphne Maurer for her insightful talk, "The Infant as Synesthete?" Click for conference details at ASA site
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October 22, 2003
Kate Spanos, President of the Students' Cognitive Science Society of the University of Virginia has organized a "Speakers' Series on Synesthesia". The series kicked off with author Patricia Lynne Duffy, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds, giving a reading from her book and a presentation on the experience of synesthesia and other idiosyncratic ways of coding information
An article about Ms Spanos appears in this month's University of Virginia's A & S Online
October 16, 2003
The Mind Science Foundation's Fall 2003 Distinguished Speakers Series , San Antonio, Texas (click for article about this event) included a lecture on synesthesia by Dr. Peter Grossenbacher of Naropa University
The Third Annual American Synesthesia
Association (ASA) Conference took place at Rockefeller
University, at the invitation of Dr, Maria Karayiourgu,
Head of Rockefeller's Neurogentics Laboratory, New York City May 2 - 4 (details
here) and was organized by Edward Hubbard of University of
California at San Diego, American Synesthesia Association (ASA)
Board Members Sean Day, and Carol Steen and 'mc'd by Dr.
Peter Grossenbacher of Naropa University. The
conference, which took place from May 19-21 featured as its honored
keynote speakers, Dr. Lawrence Marks of Yale University, who spoke
about "Synesthesia Then and Now",
the development of research and changing attitudes toward the study
of synesthesia and Dr. Mriganka Sur of MIT,
who spoke about "Plasticity and
Specificity in Cortical Development". Presenters included Julian
Asher of Cambridge University, who presented on results of a genetic
scan of the X-chromosome and implications for the genetics of synaesthesia;
Greta Berman of the Julliard School of Music, who presented on
responses to descriptions of synesthesia; Sean Day who
presented "Towards an international consensus and standardization of
labels and terminology in synesthesia research"; Dr. Mike Dixon
of the University of Waterloo, Ontario who discussed how synesthetic
photisms can help or hinder performance; Pat Duffy, author, Blue
Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How synesthetes Color their Worlds,
who explored 'Personal Coding' idiosyncratic information coding of
synesthetes and non-synesthetes; Harvey Gittlemen, who
presented his art from synesthetic perceptions of music; Edward
Hubbard of the Brain and perception Laboratory at UCSD who discussed
how higher and lower forms of synesthesia appear at different stages of
numerical processing; author Wendy Mass, discussed her young adult
novel on synesthesia, A Mango-Shaped Space; Dr. Phil Merikle
of the University of Waterloo who discussed the possible genetic basis for
synesthesia and its sex-linked aspect; synesthetes who first become
conscious of the synesthetic photism vs. those who first become conscious
of its trigger; Dr. Thomas Palmieri of Vanderbilt University
discussed the "Perceptual Reality of Synesthetic Colors and their
Interactions with real colors"; artist-photographer Marcia
Smilack, who spoke about how synesthesia figures into her creative
process; Ferrinne Spector of Trinity College, who presented on
"Cross-modal Associations in the non-synesthetic population"; Carol
Steen, who presented slides of her art work along with a paper, Visions
Shared: A Firsthand Look into Synesthesia and Art on synesthesia and
her creative process; Cretien Van Campen, who presented
on "Combining artistic and scientific perspectives in the study of
synesthesia"; Jamie Ward, who compared lexical-gustatory grapheme-color
synesthesia; The closing event was the screening of the award-winning
short documentary film, Chroma
by synesthete and
filmmaker Carrie Schultz.
April and February 2003
--Synesthete filmmaker Carrie Schultz' short documentary Chroma was screened at a number of independent film festivals, including the New York Independent Film and Video Festival in April 2003 and at the Los Angeles Independent Film and Video in February 2003. Festival where it won a prize for best short documentary
April 19 -- May 24 2003
An art exhibition, Multi-Sensory Memory and Synesthesia, organized by at the Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island
July 22
The Synesthesia Evening, featuring presentations by synesthetic artist-photographer, Marcia Smilack, author Patricia Lynne Duffy, and poet Rose Styron, who read works of Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Garcia-Lorca at the Synergy Design Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
February 2
The Synesthesia Afternoon, featuring presentations by synesthetic artists and writers took place at Halcyon Cafe in the artists' enclave of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY
Presenters included (in order of appearance) Pat Duffy, who read from her book, Blue Cats (Henry Holt & Company. http://www.bluecats.info); Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Anna Muir and Pauline Zalkin who read synesthesia-inspired poems by Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Garcia-Lorca in both English and their original French and Spanish; Carol Steen, who presented slides of her synesthetic art work, along with a paper, Visions Shared: A Firsthand Look into Synesthesia and Art (Leonardo) on the synesthetic aspect of her creative process; Katherine Vaz, who read from her novel Saudade (St. Martin's Press), which features a character with synesthesia; Natasha Lvovich who read Confessions of a Synesthete, a chapter from her book, The Multilingual Self (Lawrence Ehrlbaum Press); Wendie Mass, who read from her forthcoming children's book which features a synesthetic character, A Mango-Shaped Space (Little Brown); and Mark Safan, who showed slides of his paintings and talked of the synesthetic relation between music and his art work.
As one member of the audience said, "There is something very moving and convincing about seeing so many people present about their experience of synesthesia."
The participants hope to repeat their performance of The Synesthesia Afternoon at another venue. Synesthesia Community News will keep you posted.
Synesthesia was much in the media in 2003. Some notables:
December 13, 2003
"Hearing Red", an article on Dr. Peter Grossenbacher's research and interviews with synesthetes in The Daily Camera, major newspaper of Boulder, Colorado
May 2003
"Hearing
Colors, Tasting Shapes", an article American article by Dr.
V.S. Ramachandran and Ed Hubbard in Scientific American
February 16 & 19 2003
Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds, rebroadcast of BBC-radio interviews with assorted researchers and synesthetes
February 7 and July 7 2003
National Public Radio, interview with Patricia Lynne Duffy, author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds--on The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC-FM The interview with Pat Duffy followed a fascinating interview with author Antonio Damasio who discussed his new book, Looking for Spinoza
January 6, 2003
"Extra-sense Perception" in The Dallas Morning News
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For a fuller list of media events and research articles, visit the Blue Cats Synesthesia Resource Center
Please send announcements, info about synesthesia for 'Synesthesia Community News' to patduffy@rcn.com