The University of St Andrews & the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS) are pleased to announce a call for participation in an Art in Conversation seminar.
Art in Conversation (ArC) is a multidisciplinary seminar series on art hosted by the University of St Andrews. The seminar already brought together 48 leading researchers and art practitioners to discuss different perspectives around a set of core themes that are relevant to art:
This year, in collaboration with The International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists, ArC is organizing a special issue on synaesthesia in art in September-December 2023. We will be hosting art practitioners with synaesthetic experience in conversation with academics. The ArC seminars will focus on olfactory art (perfumery) and visual art (design and cinema). Each online seminar will feature two pre-edited video essays (approx. 20 min each) about synaesthetic artistic practice and research, as well as a live Q&A session involving the practitioner and academic that contributed to the videos.
We invite academics in psychology and neuroscience with experience in empirical research in cross-modal aspects of 1) perfumery/olfactory art; 2) film; 3) design/product design.
Please contact us before 31 March 2023 if you are interested in taking part in one of these seminars: mi59@st-andrews.ac.uk
Hi. I’m from the US, but I’ve been living and working in India for the 11 years. I teach art, design, humanities, film, and various other transdisciplinary courses and workshops. I have several types of synaesthesia, and in 2016 I began designing courses and workshops that focus on synaesthesia and various other strategies to generate ideas and create work. Synaesthesia interests me personally as a synaesthete and because the the students create remarkable work when they learn about synaesthesia, use it in ideation, iteration, and in their final creative work. So, I’m writing because I would like to stay informed about current research, events, and initiatives taken by this community.
Currently, I am Professor at RV University’s School of Film, Media and Creative Arts. Prior to this, I taught for nearly 11 years at Srishti Manipal School of Art, Design and Technology. Both institutions are in Bangalore, India.