Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Allen Memorial Art Museum
87 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074
The two-day Synaesthesia Symposium celebrates the art and science of synaesthesia: the figurative or physiological mixing of the senses. In a college-conservatory-museum collaboration, students and faculty across disciplines will showcase their academic and creative work in research presentations, personal accounts of synaesthesia, and multimedia experiments, reflecting on or evoking multisensory experiences. Two keynote lectures will address the neuroscience of synaesthesia and Russian music and the arts.
Synaesthesia Symposium Schedule
Friday, March 13
1-3 pm: Allen Memorial Art Museum
1-2:20 pm: Synaesthetic artworks at the AMAM Print Study Room. Print Study Room Session requires registration. To register, RSVP to pdimova@oberlin.edu
2:30-3 pm: Hayley Larson, tour of exhibit Shifting Perspectives: The World Through Another's Gaze
5-6:30 pm: Science Center, Craig Lecture Hall
Keynote Lecture: Edward Hubbard, educational psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes: Synesthesia as a Window into Human Nature
March 14, Saturday
9-10:45 am: King Hall, Room 106
Perspectives on Synaesthesia from Neuroscience
Leslie Kwakye, assistant professor, neuroscience, Oberlin College, Integrating Time: Temporal Multisensory Processing in Autism
Student Presentation: Ralph Savarese, English, Grinnell College, "The 'Why' and the 'Why Not' of a Yellowing World": Autism, Literary Writing, and Synesthesia
11 am -12:30 pm: King Hall, Room 106
Keynote Lecture: Anna Nisnevich, music, University of Pittsburgh, Chaikovsky, Synaesthecized
Lunch Reception
1:15-2:45: King Hall, Room 106
Multisensory Perception in Literature, Music, Visual Art, and Dance
Isadora Grevan, visiting assistant professor, Portuguese, Oberlin College, Isadora Duncan's Multisensory Dance and the Kandinsky Connection
Student Presentations
Ann Cooper Albright, professor, dance, Oberlin College, Becoming Light
3-4 pm: Science Center, Nancy Dye Lecture Hall
Screening Session focus on Sonic/Visual/Synaesthetic Relations, TIMARA PlayFest
4:15-5:30: King Hall, Room 106
Synaesthesia and the Arts. Personal and Creative Accounts of Synaesthesia
Claudia Macdonald, professor, music, Oberlin College, Music and Color
Student Presentations
7-9:30 pm: Warner Main Space
The Multimedia Artwork
A showcase of student multimedia artworks and multimedia exhibits.
Carter McAdams, professor, dance, Oberlin College, Thirst, Sacrifice & Transformation: Multiple Collaborations in the OASIS Project, 2012
Sponsored by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation Arts and Technology Initiative, the Mead-Swing Fund, the Departments of Neuroscience and Russian and the Oberlin Media Center.
Academic, Neuroscience, Russian Language, Literature and Culture
Free and open to the public
Polina Dimova
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