To: Colour Research Society of Canada (CRSC) members/friends
from Doreen Balabanoff
Ntacha Moutinho, a PhD student in Fine Art from Lisbon University is interested in understanding the role of colour in free-hand drawings made by architects during the creative design process:
"At this stage it is important for me to know if any research has been carried out in this particular topic and also expand my bibliographic sources.
I’m writing to ask if you:
1. Know of anyone working or doing research on this subject
2. Can provide reference material such as papers or books on this particular subject - colour in drawing."
Please send responses to natacha@arquitectura.uminho.pt
Cosmos vs. Canvas
Cosmos vs Canvas: Using Art to Reveal Science in Astronomy Public Outreach Images
Speaker: Dr. Jayanne English
Abstract: Bold colour images from telescopes act as extraordinary ambassadors for astronomers because they pique the public's curiosity. But are they snapshots documenting physical reality? Or are we looking at artistic spacescapes created by digitally manipulating astronomy images? This lecture provides a tour of how original black and white data are converted into the colour images gracing magazines. Often the attempt by scientists to represent their discoveries all but drowns out the voice of visual literacy. Yet sometimes in this battle, between the cultures of science and visual art, both sides win. This struggle will be presented from the perspective of a professional astronomer who has coordinated the Hubble Heritage Project and also trained as an artist. This lecture outlines how artistic techniques - such as colour contrast and composition - can be used to produce a more engaging scientific image with greater clarity for the non-expert public.
Date: Sunday April 13 2014, 2:00pm
Location: Propeller Gallery, 984 Queen St West, Toronto (just east of Ossington)
Dr. English is a member of the Winnipeg chapter of the CRSC. She is an astronomer at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, artist (graduate of the Ontario College of Art), and public educator. Dr. English studied at the Australian National University, did postdoctoral work at Queen's University and the Hubble Space Telescope Institute. She has given numerous interviews for CBC radio's Quirks and Quarks.
This lecture, co-sponsored by the CRSC, is part of the exhibition "Occam's Razor: Science, Art & Aesthetics", currently on at Propeller Gallery, and on at the Ontario Science Centre's !dea Gallery from May 3-June 1.
Colour : Abstract Extension AIC Oaxaca and Milan Courses
From: Verena M. Schindler, Chair ECD [ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com]
AIC Study Group ECD
AIC Study Group ECD
Subject: AIC 2014 CfP 30 April – HdF Lecture – DFZ Wuppertal – Milan Colour Courses
AIC 2014 Call for Papers
Abstract
Submission Deadline Extended: 30 April 2014
AIC 2014
AIC Interim Meeting, Oaxaca, MEXICO
COLOUR AND CULTURE
21-24 October 2014
Venue: Hotel Misión de los Ángeles, Porfirio Díaz 102, Reforma, 68050 Oaxaca
Organiser: Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores del Color, AMEXINC (Mexican Colour Association)
Chair: Dr. Carlos I. Aguirre Velez
E-mail: aic2014oaxaca@gmail.com
www.aic2014.org
COLOUR AND CULTURE
21-24 October 2014
Venue: Hotel Misión de los Ángeles, Porfirio Díaz 102, Reforma, 68050 Oaxaca
Organiser: Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores del Color, AMEXINC (Mexican Colour Association)
Chair: Dr. Carlos I. Aguirre Velez
E-mail: aic2014oaxaca@gmail.com
www.aic2014.org
Color and Culture
Topics:
Topics:
- ART AND DESIGN: Plastic arts, graphic design, industrial design, fashion and trends, architecture, interior design, packaging, photography, advertising, image and personality and cosmetology
- HISTORY AND FOLKLORE: Anthropology, archaeology, textile design, popular arts, color and identity, crafts, global culture, local cultures and restoration
- HUMAN DISCIPLINES: Psychology, perception, sociology, psychophysics, anthropology and ethnography
- SEMIOTICS AND TEACHING: Meaning of the colors, new technologies for the teaching, advertising and communication
- TECHNOLOGY AND COLOR INDUSTRY: dyes, food engineering, computing, measuring instruments, art materials and production of natural and artificial pigments
- SCIENCE AND COLOR: Physics, optics, chemistry, neurology, illumination, medicine and chromotherapy
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DIENSTAG, 15.4.2014 - TREFFPUNKT FARBE ZÜRICH
http://www.hausderfarbe.ch/
http://www.hausderfarbe.ch/
Liebe Architektur- und Farbinteressierte
am 15.4.2014 haben Sie die Gelegenheit, Farbkonzepte kennen zu lernen, die überraschen, da sie mit Massstäben und Konventionen spielen und damit Sehgewohnheiten ins Wanken bringen. Die Architekten Kaschka Knapkiewicz und Axel Fickert werden im Rahmen von Treffpunkt Farbe über ihren Umgang mit Farbe und ihre Zusammenarbeit mit dem Künstler Franz Wanner sprechen.
Wir laden Sie ganz herzlich ein.
Mit den besten Grüssen
Stefanie Wettstein und Lino Sibillano, Co-Leitung Haus der Farbe
am 15.4.2014 haben Sie die Gelegenheit, Farbkonzepte kennen zu lernen, die überraschen, da sie mit Massstäben und Konventionen spielen und damit Sehgewohnheiten ins Wanken bringen. Die Architekten Kaschka Knapkiewicz und Axel Fickert werden im Rahmen von Treffpunkt Farbe über ihren Umgang mit Farbe und ihre Zusammenarbeit mit dem Künstler Franz Wanner sprechen.
Wir laden Sie ganz herzlich ein.
Mit den besten Grüssen
Stefanie Wettstein und Lino Sibillano, Co-Leitung Haus der Farbe
Haus der Farbe – Professional College
for Colour Design Zurich (with an experience of twenty years!)
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Internationale Konferenz „Farbe als Experiment“, GERMANY
25-26 September 2014
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Forschende Strategien in Handwerk, Design, Kunst und Wissenschaft
Organization: Deutsches Farbenzentrum e.V. and Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Interdisziplinäre Kooperation der FB F Design und Kunst sowie FB C – Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
25-26 September 2014
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Forschende Strategien in Handwerk, Design, Kunst und Wissenschaft
Organization: Deutsches Farbenzentrum e.V. and Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Interdisziplinäre Kooperation der FB F Design und Kunst sowie FB C – Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
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COURSES IN COLOR DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
The very first
program worldwide devoted to graduate training in the fascinating and
complex field of color design and
color technology. Starting date: March 31, 2014. All the lessons will
be held in English. Interested applicants will be able to attend the
following training modules individually.
A reduced fee is available for regular students of Politecnico di Milano and Università degli Studi di Milano, regular
members of GdC - Associazione Italiana Colore and Società Italiana Ottica e Fotonica.
COLOR AND COLORIMETRY
Duration: 24 hours
Lessons: 2nd April 2014 - 9th May 2014
Enrollment fee: 500,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Claudio Oleari, Nicola Ludwig
This course is
dedicated to the color physics, optic and measurement fundamentals.
Although the color is a subjective
characteristic, colorimetry allows to measure, standardize, communicate
and represent in an accurate way the color of a surface or a light
source. We will present the theoretical basis of perception and
colorimetry, the photometric and radiometric measures,
different color spaces and methods to calculate color differences.
COLOR ATLAS
Duration: 24 hours
Lessons: 4th April 2014 - 17th April 2014
Enrollment fee: 500,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Alessandro Rizzi, Francesca Valan, Anna Berolo
Color can be
selected, represented and communicated through atlases and color
systems. To the participant will be presented
the main systems in use among scientists, artists and industry
professionals: Munsell, Pantone, NCS, RAL, etc. In this module will be
learnt the essential technical skills that are the basis of the color
designer, whatever the application areas on which it
will choose to specialize in the future. Knowing the characteristics of
the different systems allows choosing and using them correctly
according to different design areas: architecture and design, from
fashion to graphic design. The color systems used appropriately
become the design tools to visualize, optimize and plan the use of
color by maps, matrices, and color charts.
DIGITAL COLOR
Duration: 24 hours
Lessons: 28th May 2014 - 30th May 2014
Enrollment fee: 500,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Anna Berolo, Cristian Bonanomi, Davide Gadia, Raimondo Schettini
With the
diffusion of new technologies, more and more aspects of communication
and color reproduction are becoming digital.
In this course we will provide the theoretical and practical
fundamentals for manage, view and reproduce the digital color applied to
different media. The module aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge
of the processing chain and digital color reproduction
(from scanner to camera to printer), with particular attention to the
limitations and problems associated with the use of different devices
and color profiles.
COLOR IN COMMUNICATION
Duration: 40 hours
Lessons: 16th June 2014 - 4th July 2014
Enrollment fee: 390,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Elena Caratti, Elisabetta Del Zoppo
“All
possible images can be divided into two large classes: representational
images and abstract
images. [...] Sometimes the distinctions tend to melt away, generating
images that are both representational and not representational in
certain proportions.“(Massironi, 2002).
The contribute
of Elena Caratti starts from Massironi's taxonomy of visual
configurations to examine the different role
of color in the graphic design project: the color as element of
distinction, the color for the visualization of quantitative aspects,
the color as syntactic code. These considerations will be deepened
through some case studies and some practical exercises
that will constitute the fundamentals for the final project
development. The creation and development of a brand begin from visual
identity, which along with its connotative symbols – name, brand, logo,
lettering, packaging, and communication – ensures that
the company and its success are recognized. This is a kind of strategy
that emphasizes the role of the key player. The contribution of
Elisabetta Del Zoppo will focus on the perceptions, reminiscences, and
persuasive aspects of the chromatic language that
construct the company’s visual identity along with the use of colour
that is emblematic in some case studies that will be analyzed. This
analysis will be followed by micro-activities aimed at possible meaning
reversals or shifts led by colour and by identifying
the appropriate chromatic codes.
COLOR IN FASHION DESIGN
Duration: 40 hours
Lessons: 7th July 2014 - 25th July 2014
Enrollment fee: 390,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Nello Marelli, Renata Pompas
Identify and
create the “fashionable colours”, define their aesthetic and social
features related to situation of use
and function, and their technical characteristics. Build and create a
"colour palette" with different colours, according to a methodology
comprised of few rules, distributed in a logical sequence. In this
workshop module, the tutorial will be related to a
fantasy textile decor with more colours, but this method could be
applied to any surface.
COLOR IN INTERIOR DESIGN
Duration: 40 hours
Lessons: 1th September 2014 - 19th September 2014
Enrollment fee: 390,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Arturo Dell’Acqua Bellavitis, Aldo Maria Faleri, Lorenzo Morganti, Roberto Muscinelli
The workshop
module will be dedicated to analyzing the possibilities of application
of a new colour design in the creation
of innovative retail spaces that may ensure a harmonious relationship
with brand values and corporate identity. You will experience different
approaches to retail design, proposing a new type of commercial space
(permanent or temporary) where colour shall
be an integral part of the experience design, by assonance, identity,
or by contrast. Similarly, you will develop the themes of material and
colour treatment of outer surfaces getting to know their relationship
with the interior design and the issues of historic
preservation.
COLOR IN PRODUCT DESIGN
Duration: 40 hours
Lessons: 22nd September 2014 - 10th October 2014
Enrollment fee: 390,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Stefania Perenich, Francesca Valan
The aim of this
workshop module is to furnish a methodology to design through the
simulation of a CMF
project of a real product. The participants will go through all of the
methodical phases needed for the definition of the identity of the
product:- study of the market (position, competitors…),- study and
definition of the target,- study of cmf trends in the
sector- creation of cmf scenarios (colour, materials, finishes)
The workshop module
will continue with the proposal phase: the design of colours, materials
and finishes
to apply to the collection. The final output for the presentation will
be realized with the cooperation of companies that operate in the field
which could furnish products such as paints, samples of plastics and
other materials, which will help the participants
acquire professional skills. The projects, if possible, will be tested
on sample products.
COLOR IN URBAN SPACES
Duration: 40 hours
Lessons: 13th October 2014 - 31st October 2014
Enrollment fee: 390,00 € + IVA (22%)
Teachers: Giulio Bertagna, Aldo Bottoli
The lecture is going
to address the close relationship between the color in urban spaces and
the meanings
of the human relationships that take place within it. It’s going to
highlight the role of the chromatic and perception project to improve
urban identity, a sense of citizenship and the relationship among
different roles. Four cores of this lecture are going
to analyze aspects related to the perceptual phenomena into the urban
spaces, providing the theoretical basis and tools for a procedural
praxis with the support of images, cognitive maps and case histories.
The lecture will focus on the aesthetic upgrading
of buildings in modern construction, to solve their visual impact. It
will underline preliminary analysis to study the volumes and the areas
of visual noise of the building, in order to design the appropriate
collocations of colored backgrounds, modifying
the visual and perceptive reading of its surfaces.
The very first program worldwide devoted to graduate training in the fascinating and complex field of color design and
color technology.
Starting date: March 31, 2014. All the lessons will be held in English.
Interested
applicants will be able to attend the following training modules
individually. A reduced fee is available
for regular students of Politecnico di Milano and Università degli
Studi di Milano, regular members of GdC - Associazione Italiana Colore
and Società Italiana Ottica e Fotonica.
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COLOUR OPPONENT PROCESS
Aura Satz
March 8 to April 19, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday April 12, 2 to 5 pm
Co-presented with the Images Festival
gallery44.org/satz
Aura Satz, Doorway for Natalie Kalmus (still), 2013
Centred around the use of colour in moving image technology, Aura Satz's exhibition explores the disorienting technicolour prismatic effects of the lamp house of a 35mm colour film printer. In her film Doorway for Natalie Kalmus, minute shifts across an abstract colour spectrum, punctuated by a mechanical soundtrack, evoke kaleidoscopic perceptual after-images bringing to mind Paul Sharits, Dario Argento and the Wizard of Oz. Natalie Kalmus was the ex-wife of technicolour inventor Herbert Kalmus, and was the colour consultant for hundreds of colour films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and many others. She would draw up colour scores like a music score, according to her theory of "Colour Consciousness." For the soundtrack Satz collaborated with composer Steven Severin, founder-member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Alongside the film, Colour Opponent Process also features 35mm film-strip 'colour code' works.
COLOUR OPPONENT PROCESS
Aura Satz
March 8 to April 19, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday April 12, 2 to 5 pm
Co-presented with the Images Festival
gallery44.org/satz
Aura Satz, Doorway for Natalie Kalmus (still), 2013Centred around the use of colour in moving image technology, Aura Satz's exhibition explores the disorienting technicolour prismatic effects of the lamp house of a 35mm colour film printer. In her film Doorway for Natalie Kalmus, minute shifts across an abstract colour spectrum, punctuated by a mechanical soundtrack, evoke kaleidoscopic perceptual after-images bringing to mind Paul Sharits, Dario Argento and the Wizard of Oz. Natalie Kalmus was the ex-wife of technicolour inventor Herbert Kalmus, and was the colour consultant for hundreds of colour films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and many others. She would draw up colour scores like a music score, according to her theory of "Colour Consciousness." For the soundtrack Satz collaborated with composer Steven Severin, founder-member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Alongside the film, Colour Opponent Process also features 35mm film-strip 'colour code' works.
Colour & Light in Space/Form Time
Doreen Balabanoff: Colour and Light
in Space/Form/Time
Lecture: Varley Gallery, Markham,
Ontario, Canada as part of Colour, In Theory Exhibition January 25 – May 4, 2014
Doreen Balabanoff will show her own environmental design work and research and bring her perspectives, as an artist, educator and researcher, to the ongoing discussion of the works in our current exhibition Colour, In Theory.
Considering colour and light as inseparable, ever-changing aspects of our visual environment, she will look at both material and immaterial colour, with a focus on light. While works in the exhibition are made of physical paint, they depict moments of perception that are intimately involved with colour as light - with the relationship between light and material surfaces and substances.
When: Wednesday, April 30 2014 | 7 p.m.
Where: Varley Art Gallery, 216 Main Street Unionville, Markham L3R 2H1
Cost: $10 or free for members
To register contact varley@markham.ca or 905-477-7000 ext. 3261
About Doreen Balabanoff
Doreen Balabanoff is an internationally known architectural glass artist and an Associate Professor in Environmental Design at OCAD University (Toronto). She has created architectural glass artworks for various public and private buildings. Her work also includes gallery installations, exhibition pieces and architectural design, seen in a broad range of exhibitions, in Canada and abroad.
Doreen holds a Masters of Architecture from UCLA. She is currently engaged in a practice-based PhD through the School of Architecture at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research project is focused on the potent phenomenological, aesthetic and sensory aspects of light, and how they might be used to enhance the birth environment and experience in hospital settings.
HoursDoreen Balabanoff is an internationally known architectural glass artist and an Associate Professor in Environmental Design at OCAD University (Toronto). She has created architectural glass artworks for various public and private buildings. Her work also includes gallery installations, exhibition pieces and architectural design, seen in a broad range of exhibitions, in Canada and abroad.
Doreen holds a Masters of Architecture from UCLA. She is currently engaged in a practice-based PhD through the School of Architecture at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research project is focused on the potent phenomenological, aesthetic and sensory aspects of light, and how they might be used to enhance the birth environment and experience in hospital settings.
Mon: CLOSED | Tue, Wed, Fri & Sun: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Thu: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
Sat: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Montreal Event March 21 Synaesthesia
From Member Ted Turvey:
See
http://www.fifeq.ca/Programmation_21_mars_2014_en.html
for March 21 Montreal Event:
IMMERSION AND SYNAESTHESIA AS WAYS OF KNOWING: A SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE OPENMIND TRANSFORMATIONAL FESTIVAL.
| Friday March 21th 2014 9 pm Location // La Cenne, 7755 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2R 1X1 OLIVIER BERTHELOT-SYNESTHÉSIA CRÉATION ERIC GAGNON-SOCIOLOGIE UQAM At the crossroads of art and science, Eric and Olivier will offer participants an immersive experience. Basing themselves on sensory ethnography, they will welcome you in an interactive art installation that will transport you into the OpenMind transformational festival. This culture proposes meetings that mix festivities with spirituality with the aim of opening up possibilities in spiritual and community developments. Using different sensory strategies, Eric and Olivier will stimulate your senses of taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight in order to give you an insight into the transformational culture. This activity will push you to question the connections between the body and knowledge, as well as the perks of mobilizing the senses to share and communicate researches in social sciences. Festival OpenMind // http://openmindfestival.com/ Synesthesia Creations // https://www.facebook.com/SynesthesiaCreations?fref=ts |
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Call for Papers new Journal CRSC ColourCouleur
CALL FOR PAPERS
Colour : Couleur
The Journal of the Colour Research Society of Canada
Colour : Couleur is the new Journal of the Colour Research Society
of Canada. The mission of the Journal is to create an open-source,
common space for discussion and dissemination of scholarly research and
professional practice focused on Colour in Industry, Art and Design, Scientific
disciplines, and Academia. The
Journal will take advantage of the capabilities of current Web technologies,
permitting contributors to embed visual and auditory elements into their
submissions as necessary, even allowing multi-media submissions such as film
and video, visual artworks or audio submissions.
Inaugural issue:
CROSSING
SENSORY BOUNDARIES: Synesthesia
Hearing
the colour of a flute; tasting the sharpness of a banana; feeling the months of
the year wrapped around your body. To some of us, the crossing of sensory
boundaries occurs only in realms of imagination, guided by poets, artists and
musicians. To those of us with Synaesthesia, however, one mode of stimulus
actually triggers perceptions in another.
Appearing in a growing body
of research from diverse fields, synaesthesia
is a complex of neurological processes that results in a blurring of perceptual
boundaries. With the advent of neuroscientific imaging, this uncommon, even
quasi-mystical ability has become a focus of study that intriguingly bridges
disciplinary studies in Developmental Psychology, the Neurosciences, Art,
Design, and Music, and Poetics.
For the inaugural edition
of “Colour : Couleur,” the CRSC would like to complete a series of special
events on synesthesia, called ‘Crossing Sensory Boundaries’ that we initiated
in 2013, by calling for papers, research
studies, and examples of creative practice that can illuminate or describe some
aspect of this phenomenon of human cognition and creativity. Seeking to provide
a generous overview of technical and non-technical examinations of the synesthetic
experience, the journal will provide a context for diverse contributions to the
growing knowledge base centred upon understanding this extraordinary human capacity.
We are aiming for researchers, practitioners and synaesthetes themselves to
contribute to the project, to reflect the range of interests, and to share and
discuss knowledge across disciplines.
Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:
Foundational concepts
Education-related studies: learning/language development, cognitive
studies
Research methodologies
Analytical methods
Creativity studies
Creative methods: practice-based
Experiential projects
Paper Submissions
While
media-based submissions are encouraged, we are also soliciting three types of
papers: long papers (up to 10 pages); position papers for new ideas (up to 6
pages); presentations/examples of creative practice (images, sound, writing,
etc.)
Documents
should clearly describe original research, describe novel and promising ideas
that might not have been fully validated, or present creative practices with/for
interpretation and discussion. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least
three Advisory Committee members. Papers must be formatted according to Harvard
standards, and if previously published, this should be stated and referenced
clearly.
Papers may be submitted at huutaArt.com:
Submit online
Important dates
Paper or Presentation Submission
Deadline: April 30, 2014
Notification: May 30, 2014
Publication:
August 2014
Editorial board:
Prof. Doreen Balabanoff
Dr. Robin Kingsburgh
Dr. David Griffin
Advisory
Committee tba
When Art Meets Science: Broadening Horizons through Interdisciplinary Practice – A Discussion
When Art Meets Science: Broadening Horizons through Interdisciplinary Practice – A Discussion - Toronto
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Panel Members:Lisa Carrie Goldberg, Multidisciplinary Artist, and founder of Action Potential Lab, Toronto’s first laboratory dedicated to merging science and art.
Robin Kingsburgh, PhD Trained astronomer, painter and educator, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences & School of Interdisciplinary Studies, OCAD University; Division of Natural Science, York University.Scott Menary, PhD, Member of the ALPHA antimatter team and Polanyi prize winner, Department of Physics & Astronomy, York University.
Stephen Morris, PhD, J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics and pattern formation artist, Department of Physics, University of Toronto.
Robin Kingsburgh, PhD Trained astronomer, painter and educator, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences & School of Interdisciplinary Studies, OCAD University; Division of Natural Science, York University.Scott Menary, PhD, Member of the ALPHA antimatter team and Polanyi prize winner, Department of Physics & Astronomy, York University.
Stephen Morris, PhD, J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics and pattern formation artist, Department of Physics, University of Toronto.
Moderator: Ian Clarke, BSc, PhD, Biochemist, Cancer Researcher and Artist, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences & School of Interdisciplinary Studies, OCAD University.
Science and art often have a perceived divide in contemporary culture, yet historically both their roots stem from similar manifestations of creativity and aesthetics, in exploring, responding to, and explaining Nature. This Royal Canadian Institute panel presentation brings together scientists, artists, and those with a foot in each of the ‘two cultures’ to discuss their interdisciplinary practices, and encourage novel ways to understand the world around us.
Save the date! Synesthesia events in Toronto, March 18 & 19
The CRSC is co-sponsoring a visit by synesthesia researcher Dr Jools Simner, from the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Simner will present a public lecture on
Tasty coloured sounds: The experiences of synaesthetes
Tuesday March 18, 7:00 pm
Abstract: Synaesthesia is an inherited neurological condition that gives rise to a kind of 'merging of the senses'. For example, synaesthetes might 'see' colours when they hear music, or experience tastes in the mouth when they read words. One particularly common variant is experiencing colours when reading letters or numbers, and this variant of the condition – known as grapheme-colour synaesthesia -- is found in around 1 in 100 people. What are the experiences of synaesthetes, and how do these unusual experiences develop during childhood? How do they impact on schooling and early life development and how do adult synaesthetes navigate their multisensory worlds? I will explore the nature of these cross-sensory experiences and ask what they might also tell us about sensory processing in the population at large. I’ll describe what I have learned from the scientific research carried out at my Synaesthesia and Sensory Integration lab over the last decade, and how synaesthesia might open novel ways of understanding creativity, perception and the very nature of reality.
On Wednesday March 19 3-6pm
Room 544, OCAD University
Dr Daphne Maurer (McMaster University) will discuss results from the Music Visualization Workshop, held May 31 2013 at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Drs Simner and Maurer will also co-host a panel on the impact of synesthesia in education.
Dr. Simner will present a public lecture on
Tasty coloured sounds: The experiences of synaesthetes
Tuesday March 18, 7:00 pm
Abstract: Synaesthesia is an inherited neurological condition that gives rise to a kind of 'merging of the senses'. For example, synaesthetes might 'see' colours when they hear music, or experience tastes in the mouth when they read words. One particularly common variant is experiencing colours when reading letters or numbers, and this variant of the condition – known as grapheme-colour synaesthesia -- is found in around 1 in 100 people. What are the experiences of synaesthetes, and how do these unusual experiences develop during childhood? How do they impact on schooling and early life development and how do adult synaesthetes navigate their multisensory worlds? I will explore the nature of these cross-sensory experiences and ask what they might also tell us about sensory processing in the population at large. I’ll describe what I have learned from the scientific research carried out at my Synaesthesia and Sensory Integration lab over the last decade, and how synaesthesia might open novel ways of understanding creativity, perception and the very nature of reality.
On Wednesday March 19 3-6pm
Room 544, OCAD University
Dr Daphne Maurer (McMaster University) will discuss results from the Music Visualization Workshop, held May 31 2013 at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Drs Simner and Maurer will also co-host a panel on the impact of synesthesia in education.
Dr. Julia Simner is a neuropsychologist
and leading expert in the field of synesthesia research. She trained at the
Universities of Oxford, Toronto and Sussex, and she currently runs the
Synesthesia and Sensory Integration lab at the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. Her work focuses on the psychological and neuroscientific bases of
synesthesia, and has been published in the high impact science journals such as
‘Nature’. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia and is keenly
interested in facilitating the public’s understanding of science. Her work has
been reported in over 100 media articles worldwide, including the NY Times,
BBC, CBC, Telegraph, Times, New Scientist, Scientific American etc. In 2010 she
was recognised as an outstanding European scientist by the European
Commission’s Atomium Culture
Initiative and her science writing for the general public has been published in
some of Europe’s leading national newspapers.
What is Color? Flame Challenge
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