Synesthesia and Cross-Modality
Touch Sense
- Can work directly as sculptural texture
- When certain textures are used to evoke touching such surfaces
- When the object breaks our expectations
- Melting clocks, soft disco balls, obese cars
- Body mutilation, body amorphism (activist mirroring)
- Also with movement, think JACKASS
Sculptures
Expectation vs. Representation
Synesthesia
Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory
or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or
cognitive pathway. People with syneshesia, known as syneshetes, might see
colors when they hear music, taste flavors when they see certain shapes, or
associate specific colors with numbers or letters. Synesthesia can involve any
combination of the senses, and the experiences are consistent and repeatable
for the pesron who has it. This condition highlights the complex
interconnecttivity of sensory perceptions in the human brain, offering
insights into how we perceive and interpret the world around us.
Synesthesia may provide a window
Hyper connectivity
Inducer → Concurrent
- Synaesthesia runs in families.
- Synaesthetes often report ‘odd’ or weird colors they cannot see in the real
world but see only in association with numbers. - If a person has one type, of synaesthesia, she is more likely to have a
second or third type. - There appears to be tremendous heterogeneity in synaesthesia.
- Ordinary language use is rich with synaesthetic metaphors.
- Synaesthesia appears to be more common among artists, poets, novelists, and
creative people in general.
Synaptic Pruning
The process of learning by eliminating synaptic connections from birth up into
adulthood.
Excessive synapses are observed in autism, epilepsy, and too few synapses are
present in schizophrenia.