Colloquium
dal 27/3/2005 al 28/3/2005
Segnalato da
27/3/2005
Colloquium
San Francisco Art Institute - SFAI, San Francisco
Making Connection: Synesthesia and the Arts. Four speakers will discuss how this phenomenon has been explored by artists in a wide variety of disciplines (poetry, visual arts, music, etc.) particularly during the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, offering an historical overview on how artists have used synesthesia to develop complex structural relationships in their work.
Making Connection: Synesthesia and the Arts
A group of four innovative artists and
scholars will shed light on their research and personal experience of
synesthesia in "Making Connection: Synesthesia and the Arts" at the San
Francisco Art Institute on Monday, March 28, at 7:30 pm.
Synesthesia is a compelling and mysterious neurological condition that has
inspired research for centuries. It is defined as a condition in which one
type of sensory stimulation provokes the stimulation of another sense:
when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color, for
instance, or when a taste provokes the association of a shape.
In "Making Connection: Synesthesia and the Arts", four speakers will
discuss how this phenomenon has been explored by artists in a wide variety
of disciplines (poetry, visual arts, music, etc.) particularly during the
latter 19th and early 20th centuries, offering an historical overview on
how artists have used synesthesia 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 and SFAI professor Charles Boone for this lively
presentation.
Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Wassily Kandinsky, Arnold Schoenberg,
and Alexander Scriabin all used the idea of connecting the senses as they
conceived some of their most affecting and memorable works. Closer to our
own time, such artists as composer Olivier Messiaen, painter David
Hockney, and writer Vladimir Nabokov, all themselves synesthetes, based
much of their work on this phenomenon.
Synesthesia occurs rarely, more often in women than in men, and has been
the subject of considerable neurological and psychological study in the
recent past. This colloquium will attempt to present fundamental
arts-related ideas about synesthesia from differing points of view: those
of scientists, artists, and of synesthetes themselves.
The lecture is free and open to the public at SFAI's 800 Chestnut Street
campus in San Francisco.
About the San Francisco Art Institute
Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute is one of the U.S.'s
oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary
art. SFAI has consistently fostered one of the most open, innovative, and
interdisciplinary environments in higher education, as its five
interdisciplinary centers show: The Center for Contemporary Practice, The
Center for Art+Science, the Center for Media Culture, the Center for Word,
Text, and Image, and the Center for Public Practice. Through our BFA and
MFA programs, and our extensive community education offerings, we do not
"teach art." Rather, as our illustrious alumni show, we educate artists
who can articulate cultural and historical meaning and context through art
making and critical thinking; becoming the creative leaders of their
generation.
Image: Jeanne Foss
Monday, March 28, 2005, 7:30 pm
San Francisco Art Institute - Lecture Hall,
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133