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"Citizen Journalism: Engaging the Media with New Technology" (by 2008 winner of McLuhan Award for Investigative Journalism)

Talk by Glenda Gloria delivered at UofT on March 2, 2009. She is recipient of the 2008 McLuhan Award for investigative journalism in the Philippines. (Preceded by an Introduction: bio, release by the Canadian Embassy in the Philippines, about the award.)

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Synesthesia (MMS seminar with Lynne)

definition: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8445

On types of synesthesia

Day, Sean, Types of synesthesia. (2009) (table does not go up to 61 “recorded”)

http://home.comcast.net/~sean.day/html/types.htm

The 4 types we talked about in class:

1. ordinal linguistic personification

Simner, J. & E. M. Hubbard (2006), "Variants of synaesthesia interact in cognitive tasks: Evidence for implicit associations and late connectivity in cross-talk theories", Neuroscience 143 (3): 805-814

Simner, J. & E. M. Hubbard (2006), "Variants of synaesthesia interact in cognitive tasks: Evidence for implicit associations and late connectivity in cross-talk theories", Neuroscience 143 (3): 805-814

Cytowic, R. E. (2002), written at Cambridge, MA, Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses, 2nd ed, MIT Press

2. number form synesthesia

Ramachandran, V. S. & E. M. Hubbard (2001), "Synaesthesia: A window into perception, thought and language", Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (12): 3-34

Hubbard, E. M.; P. Pinel & M. Piazza et al. (2005), "Interactions between numbers and space in parietal cortex", Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6: 435-448 

3. grapheme → color synesthesia

Raskin, Richard. 2003. An interview with Stephanie Morgenstern and Mark Ellis on Remembrance. P.O.V., A Danish Journal of Film Studies; number 15 (March): 170-184.

Duffy, Patricia. "Quote from Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens (W. H. Freeman; 2001)". 

Feynman, Richard. 1988. What Do You Care What Other People Think? New York: Norton.

4. visual motion → sound synesthesia (more recent)

Saenz M and Koch C (August 2008). "The sound of change: visually-induced auditory synesthesia". Current Biology 18 (15).

Summary

Synesthesia is a benign neurological condition in humans characterized by involuntary cross-activation of the senses, and estimated to affect at least 1% of the population. Multiple forms of synesthesia exist, including distinct visual, tactile or gustatory perceptions which are automatically triggered by a stimulus with different sensory properties, such as seeing colors when hearing music. Surprisingly, there has been no previous report of synesthetic sound perception. Here we report that auditory synesthesia does indeed exist with evidence from four healthy adults for whom seeing visual flashes or visual motion automatically causes the perception of sound. As an objective test, we show that ‘hearing-motion synesthetes’ outperformed normal control subjects on an otherwise difficult visual task involving rhythmic temporal patterns similar to Morse code. Synesthetes had an advantage because they not could not only see, but also hear the rhythmic visual patterns. Hearing-motion synesthesia could be a useful tool for studying how the auditory and visual processing systems interact in the brain.

Terrance Mockler's blog Cultures Synesthesia

http://culturessynesthesia.blogspot.com/

Go there to hear Derrick – Connected Intelligence Part 1-4 in Italian

James C. Morrison, “Hypermedia and Synesthesia” MEA Proceedings, 2000.

http://www.media-ecology.org/publications/MEA_proceedings/v1/hypermedia_and_synesthesia.html

Hugo Heyrman, "Art and Synesthesia: in search of the synesthetic experience"

Lecture presented at the First International Conference on Art and Synesthesia

Primer Congreso Internacional sobre Arte y Sinestesia, 25th - 28th July, 2005 - Universidad de Almería, Spain

http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/art/index.html

Abstract

The objective of this study is to come to a better understanding of the 'synesthetic experience', especially in the context of art. It consists of two parts: in the first part, I review naturally occurring synesthesia. In the second part, I discuss created forms of synesthesia in art. My starting point is the hypothesis that 'synesthesia-phenomena' are at the roots of all artistic practice. The approach is multidisciplinary and from a philosophy of art perspective. It will be argued that 'art as a synesthetic experience', and 'synesthetic experiences by synesthetes', share certain basic concepts: the making of new connections between the senses. In the arts, the search for correspondences and complementarities between the senses is essential. Artists have brought the 'synesthetic experience' to the surface —to share their vision with the world. The intention is to analyze the impact of synesthetic approaches as experiments in art. The focus will be on a visual presentation of artworks by artists/pioneers, as study case examples of early modern art movements; Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl and Abstract Expressionism. The 'Manifesto of Surrealism' has improved on the Rimbaud principle that "the poet must turn seer". Art and synesthesia go hand-in-hand.

Twelve key figures: Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia, Paul Klee, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Duchamp, Anton Bragaglia, Man Ray, René Magritte, Mark Rothko and Meret Oppenheim.