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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="hps"><b>Synaesthesia/ II: 25 January - </b></span><span class="hps"><b>10 March, 2013</b></span><span class="hps"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="hps"><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="hps">The term</span> <span class="hps">"synaesthesia</span>",
<span class="hpsatn">from the Greek "</span>aisthesis" <span class="hpsatn">(</span><span class="hps">"Sensation</span>", <span class="hpsatn">"</span>sensory impression") and <span class="hpsatn">"</span>syn"
<span class="hpsatn">(</span><span class="hps">"together"</span>) <span class="hps">means</span> <span class="hps">the experience of two</span> <span class="hps">or more sensory</span> <span class="hps">impressions</span> <span class="hps">at the same</span> <span class="hps">time</span>. <span class="hps">In
most</span> <span class="hps">cases it</span> <span class="hps">is a</span> <span class="hps">visual</span> <span class="hps">sensation</span> <span class="hps">evoked</span>
<span class="hps">by auditory</span> <span class="hps">stimuli (</span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">John E. Harrison: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Synesthesia.
The Strangest Thing</i>, Oxford 2001</span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">)</span>.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Synaesthesia
exists both as an aesthetic and cultural-historical concept (e.g. Rimbaud,
Kandinsky, Marinetti, Nabokov), and as a neurological phenomena effecting the
way in which some individuals perceive the world.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="hps">How can one imagine the</span> <span class="hps">interrelation</span>
<span class="hps">between the different sensory</span> <span class="hps">impressions</span>?
<span class="hps">Synaesthesia</span> <span class="hps">is often</span> <span class="hps">expressed</span> <span class="hps">through a combined</span> <span class="hps">perception</span> <span class="hps">of light, color</span>, <span class="hps">sound,</span> <span class="hps">touch and</span> <span class="hps">smell</span>
<span class="hps">to individual</span> <span class="hps">spatial</span> <span class="hps">perception.</span> <span class="hps">Music can</span> <span class="hps">evoke</span>
<span class="hps">visual</span> <span class="hps">images</span> <span class="hps">that
form brightness</span> <span class="hps">or</span> <span class="hps">the literal
passage of</span> <span class="hps">music</span>. (<span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Lawrence</span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> E. Marks: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Synaesthesia.
Perception and Metaphor. </i></span><span style="color: black;">In: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Aesthetic
Illusion. </i>Berlin 1990.</span>)</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From October 2012 to July 2013 Art Laboratory Berlin will be hosting
four exhibitions on synaesthesia. All the positions in the series are the
result of an open call we published in 2010 asking: How are we confronted with
the phenomena of synaesthesia in the late 20th and early 21st century? We expressed
particular interest in works that investigate different combinations of sense
perception, and its interaction with memory, the brain, and connections between
various artistic and scientific disciplines, as well as asking for works by
artists investigating their own synaesthetic experiences
(http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-open-call.htm)</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Art Laboratory Berlin announces the opening of the 2nd exhibition of the
Synaesthesia series on 25 January 2013 featuring work by Madi Boyd and Carrie
Firman. </b></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Madi Boyd</b> is a synaesthete, whose unique perception has led her to construct work
focusing on perception
and the brain. She is currently collaborating with neuro-scientists, Dr Mark Lythgoe and Dr Beau Lotto, from University College London. This work incorporates and combines
installation, film and sculpture. The artist is interested in creating
performing environments and the interaction between space and moving image.</span></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her
project <i>The</i> <i>Point of Perception</i> explores how
much information the human brain needs in order to know <span style="letter-spacing:
-.2pt">what it is looking at. </span>It is an art experience and scientific arena
about <i>vision</i>, why we see what we do, and how much information the human
brain needs in order to know what it is looking at. The installation uses
moving image and built environments to confuse depth perception and is designed
to act specifically on the human eye and brain to create a space of
uncertainty. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A
version of the installation was shown at <span style="letter-spacing:
-.35pt">Slade Research Centre </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">(<i>The
Brain Unravelled</i>)</span> in <span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt">September
2009;</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;" lang="EN-GB">Norfolk</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;" lang="EN-GB"> and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;" lang="EN-GB">Norwich
International Festival, May 2010; and</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB"> the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB">London</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB">Science</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB">Museum</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;" lang="EN-GB">, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">September
2011. </span>The project presented in Art Laboratory Berlin will be a
further developed version with the addition of sound and colour.<span lang="EN-GB"> The idea is to assign musical notes and
colours to specific points in the gridded space, in order to explore perception
of geometric space and sound. The notes and colours will correspond to each
other, and will be played simultaneously with the movement of the film. It will
create a sound sculpture as another layer of the work, connecting colour, space
and sound, and allowing the audience to perceive the space through another
sense. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Carrie C Firman</span></b>
is an emerging electronic artist from the US<span lang="EN-US">.
She is a synaesthete and her work is inspired by studying and experiencing the
crossing of senses. She sees sy</span><span class="A2"><span lang="EN-US">naesthesia not only as a sensory phenomenon, but also
a fantastic world interface, responsible for completely unique perceptual
experiences. Her current work encourages its participants to reconsider their
perception as an entirely unique phenomenon, helping them to come to the
realization that even</span></span> <span class="A2"><span lang="EN-US">most basic level of perception differs widely
between otherwise similar individuals. The pieces that Carrie C. Firman is
presenting as part of the ‘Synaesthesia’ project at Art Laboratory </span></span><span class="A2">Berlin</span><span class="A2"> deal with her sharing her
own synaesthetic experience with the viewers and inviting them to see/hear
things through this perceptual phenomenon. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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