Symposium #1 “What is synesthesia?”
Lecture
Duration: an hour
Friday, 09 October 2020 | 21:30 > 22:15 2020-10-09T21:30:00.000Z | Sala Ellittica
There is ambiguity in talking univocally about synaesthesia.
According to some experts it is possible to define it through the scientific domain as an unusual neurological phenomenon.
For some others, synaesthesia could be identified as an ensemble of multisensory experiments whose greatest forms of realization are Visual Music and Audiovisual Art. It is a simultaneous perception of multiple stimuli, which distances itself from the neuroscientific field.
Thus, the word symposium fits perfectly with this concept since it arises from the desire to let images speak for themselves rather than involving directly the audience through verbal communication.
For example, someone with synaesthesia may hear colour or see sound.
According to some experts it is possible to define it through the scientific domain as an unusual neurological phenomenon.
For some others, synaesthesia could be identified as an ensemble of multisensory experiments whose greatest forms of realization are Visual Music and Audiovisual Art. It is a simultaneous perception of multiple stimuli, which distances itself from the neuroscientific field.
Thus, the word symposium fits perfectly with this concept since it arises from the desire to let images speak for themselves rather than involving directly the audience through verbal communication.
For example, someone with synaesthesia may hear colour or see sound.
Author
- Laura Cocciolillo is an Historical-Artistic Studies graduand at La Sapienza, born in 1997, who started her career in 2016 as the editor-in-chief of “Scomodo”, an independent monthly magazine founded the same year, which deals especially with contemporary art.
She approached curatorship in 2017, setting up the space at the “Ex Mattatoio” in Rome for the “Orfico n°1” exhibition. - Cristiano Leone holds a Ph.D in Romance Philology (European Ph.D School in Romance Philology, University of Siena) and an Executive Master in Management (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management).
He taught Linguistic and Philology at the “Université de Namur, Humanités e Histoire at Sciences Po Paris”, and Cultural Program at the “LUISS Guido Carli” University.
Currently, he teaches Art Direction and Performance Art at “Sciences Po Paris” and Performing Arts Management at the “Bocconi” University.... - Improvises digital works in realtime through his constantly developing self programmed 3d audiovisual software.
He explores a virtual universes were the sonic and the visual expressed as one, while exploiting the unique properties of both. - Creates, destroys, patches and compiles expressions across sound and image.
Using her voice and various materials and objects, her analogue improvisations are mixed, distorted and focused through the lens of digital worlds.
As a result her works meld the familiar and the hyper-abstract as they exist side by side. - Involved in the german underground club scene during the 90ies TECHNO is the source of inspiration for Amelie Duchow’s interest in electronic music.
Strongly influenced by glitch and ambient her research for contemporary sound material leads into evolving her own individual experimental electronic music.
In 2003 she moves to Italy and joins the electronic music label Suite inc.
2007 in collaboration with the media artist Marco Monfardini they launch the project Schnitt, an artistic italian/german exchange, motivated by the...