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VIII International Congress Synesthesia, Science & Art. 23-25 October 2025/

VIII Congreso Internacional de Sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte 23-25 Octubre 2025

Special Edition / Twenty-Year 2005-2025

Convento de Capuchinos

Alcalá la Real (Jaén) y Granada

España.

Actividades Paralelas:

Certamen Internacional “MuVi7”, Exposición de Arte y Sinestesia Antologíca, Conciertos y performances

(Palacio Abacial y Teatro Martínez Montañés)

 

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Actividades Paralelas: Conciertos en teatro Martínez Montañés, Alcalá la Real, Jaén[:a.cinema:]Dino Vicente, Rodrigo Gontijo, Sergio Basbaum.

[:visualflux 2.0:] Live-Cinema Performance

a.cinema

Exposiciones:"Synesthesia and Visual Arts", Exposición Antológica-Exhibition 2025.

Comisariado:Timothy B Layden; María José de Córdoba, coordinadores: Federico Barquero Mesa; PPH, Christine Soffing .
En Palacio Abacial Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain-, 18h

Up date (may 2025) Project description and open Call (pdf)

Comisariado: Open call curated by Ninghui Xiong (FIAC Delegation, China), Caitlin Mkhasibe (IASAS, South Africa)"

Ninghui Xiong.

sites.google.com/view/syn25/muvi7

MuVi /- As in previous editions, MuVi7 International Contest will take place and be displayed in several venues. Check these links for information about Muvi5 and ADI INDEX DESIGN 2019 recognition. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSa0SF_AydM
https://www.artecitta.es

MuVi7invites artists, musicians, designers and performers, also professors and university students, to submit proposals of videos to be part of a public exhibition, with performances and discussions.
Visual Music exhibition is part of the VIII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science & Art", to be held from the 23th to the 25th of October 2025,  Convento de Capuchinos,  Palacio Abacial and Teatro Martínez Montañés, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain)

Deadline for submissions
Latest date for submissions is 30 May 2025.

When
From the 23th to the 25th of October 2025.

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I Congreso sinestesia y arte 2005

I congreso Internacional de Sinestesia y Arte 2005 -

VIII Congreso Internacional de Sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte 2025

 

Título de abstracts recibidos

(de un total de 72 artículos, se muestran los admitidos)/ Title of abstracts received (out of a total of 72 articles, those admitted are shown)

 

 

Synesthesia Neuroscience and Psichology

.- Unravelling Synaesthesia: Genetic and Environmental Contributions, Subtypes, and Links to Neurodiversity and Mental Health/Desentrañando la sinestesia: Contribuciones genéticas y ambientales, subtipos y vínculos con la neurodiversidad y la salud mental
Janina Neufeld (Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet, KIND)

.- The Emotional Binding Theory of Synesthesia at 12:Lessons from neuroscience.
Helena Melero (Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología en Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

.- Sinestesia artificial con concurrente temperatura (en no sinestetas)
Emilio Gómez Milán, Oscar Iborra (University of Granada, Spain)

.- Synaesthesia: From Evolutionary Adaptation to Trainable Cognitive Potential
Ke Jiang (School of Teacher Education in Lishui University, China)
ZixiuJiang (Shanghai Sivona Education Technology Co.Ltd)

.- On “grapheme”color synesthesia: is the grapheme the fundamental “unit” of synesthetic perception?
Nicholas Root (Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam)
and The Cross-Language Synesthesia Consortium (members of the consortium who contributed data to the present work: Barbara Balawejder, Katarzyna Kolodziejczyk, Flora Parragi, and Yijia Zhang (University of Amsterdam); Pushpita Bhattacharyya (University of California San Diego); Ofek Salama and Amir Amedi (Reichman University)

.- The Synaesthetic Personality: Traits and Characteristics of Synaesthetes
Jasmin Rani Sinha (Synaesthesia Coaching / edition synaisthesis Belgium/Germany)

Synesthesia and Arts

.- The fictionalisations of experience and personification of feeling; this is not a sound/Las ficcionalizaciones de la experiencia y la personificación del sentimiento; esto no es un sonido
Timothy B. Layden (Multi-disciplinary artist, PhD and art educator, London & FIAC)

.- Luces y sonoridades. Un taller para crear narrativasexpandidas
ÂngeloDimitre Gomes Guedes (Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal, UDF, Brazil). Maria José deCórdoba Serrano (Universidad de Granada &FIAC)

.- Fotografía, música y extrañamiento/ Photography, music and estrangement
Francisco José Sánchez Montalbán(Universidad de Granada)
Rafael PeralboCano (Universidad de Granada)

.- Painting Music: When Synaesthesia reveals the color of sounds
Thierry Gabrielle (Artist, France)

.- Sinestesia, Artes de Cristal (Vidrio) y Arqueología de la ÉpocaRomana
Mohamed Ahmed Radi Abouarab(University Kafrelsheik, Egipt)
Hadir Takyeldin Mahmoud Mohamed (University Kafrelsheik, Egipt)

.- The Enigma of Chromossonia: Metamorphoses in the Imaginary
Sérgio R. Basbaum (Pontificia UniversidadeCatólica, Brazil)
Marvin Oliver Schneider (Centro Universitário SENAC, Brazil)

.- Synaesthesia Insights: Joining Scientists and Artists. Discussion 1
Debate with: Anton Sidoroff-Dorso, Noam Sagiv, Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum, and Timothy B. Layden

.- The music of the line. An artistic-synesthetic approach to translating sound through linear graphics./La música de la línea. Aproximaciónartístico-sinestésicaalatraducción del sonido a través de la gráfica linear
Natalia Herrera-Pombero (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Seville, Spain)

.- Synesthesia Through Graphic Memoir: A Poster Presentation
Ruth Glasser (University of Connecticut, Associate Professor in Residence, Emerita, United States of America)

.- La SinestesiacomoMetodologíaenelaprendizaje de lasArtesPlásticas/Synaesthesia as a Methodology in the Learning of Visual Arts
Carlos Jiménez Santander (UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain)

.- Eran sonidos para la pintura.
Víctor Silva Castejón (UniversidadCentroccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Venezuela)

.- Beyond the Senses: Exploring Synaesthesia in Artistic Creation
Amaia Salazar Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) Spain

Synesthesia and Design

.-The challenge of multi-sensory and synaesthetic design
Michael Haverkamp (Specialist at Ford WerkeGmbH Köln, Germany)

 

.- Sound and Synaesthesia. A holistic perspective to exhibition design
Micol Riva (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Yi Zhang (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Raffaella Trocchianesi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

 

.- Effect of Synesthesia in Textile printing designs between client awarness and purchases
Heba Mohamed Okasha Abu ElkamalElsayegh (Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University Country, Egypt)

 

Synaesthesia and Accessibility: Coherent Sensory Translations for Access to Arts and Design in the Museums
Dina Riccò (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Weihuan Hou (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

.- Beyon the Visible: Synesthetic and Inmersive Field in the fenomenology of Contemporary Art
Xiang Cheng LU (Post-doc Tsinghua University)

 

.-The Spatial Identities and Synaesthetic Symbolism of the Zhigong Hall as the Imperial. Examination Hall in Feudal Yunnan, China
Ling Wang (Yunnan University, P. R. China)
Wei Sun (Yunnan University, P. R. China)

Synesthesia and Music

.-Audiovisual synesthesia: How many types of auditory input are there?
Jörg Jewanski (Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna, Austria)

 

.-Musical Synesthesia: A Study of Five Musicians
Greta Berman (Professor Emerita, The Juilliard School, USA)

 

.-Exploring the Art of Musical Intellectual Synesthesia in Pedagogy and Practice
Shen Nalin (Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, China/New Zealand)

 

.- Exploring the impact of synaesthesia on music composition.
Eloise M. Whitehead
Solange Glasser
Gary E. McPherson
(Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne, Australia)

 

.-Modelling the phenomenological aspects of a music composer’s sound-colour synaesthesia in virtual reality
Solange Glasser
Ben Loveridge
Zinia Chan
(Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia)

 

.- "Synaesthetic approaches in the work & music of the emu-ensemble"
Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, Christine Söffing / EMU-Ensemble, Ulm University

Synesthesia and Medecine

.-An overview of research on language-based synaesthesia/ Panorama de la investigaciónsobre la sinestesiabasadaenellenguaje
Sean A. Day (Trident Technical College, United States)

 

.- Eficacia de lostratamientos de Psico-biorresonanciaScInte® en trastornosmentales y desequilibriosmetabólicosrelacionados/ScIntePsychoBioresonanceTherapy. The effecveness of S-PBT treatments in psychic disorders and related metabolic imbalances
Gloria Bova (Operadora de Medicina Integrada, Independent researcher,Milan, Italy)

 

.- Applying Biomimicry as an Approach to Synesthesia to Achieve a Distinctive User Experience
Magdoline Elsayed Hassaneen (Benha University, Egypt)

Synesthesia and Linguistic

.-The influence of language on colour discrimination in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes: Insights from the "Russian blues" effect
Anton Sidoroff-Dorso
(Psychology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

 

.-An Ancient Synaesthesia Legend of Chinese Calligraphy or not:a study of synaesthesia in Chinese language
Ninghui Xiong(Chinese Synaesthesia Alliance P.R. China)
Zihan Yu(Solebury School, Pennsylvania, USA)
ChenyiYu(Yang Pu Bilingual School, Shanghai, P.R. China)
DuoduoHu(Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, P.R. China)

 

.-Micro-phenomenological interviews to study synaesthetic phenomena and shed light on the dynamics of language
Emilie Magnat(Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Emmanuelle Prak-Derrington(ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Matthieu Quignard(CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2)
LorraineMénière(ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

 

.-The evolution of synesthetic colours in enunciation: colour stratification
Lorraine Ménière
(ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

 

.-Exploring the Linguistic Manifestations of Synaesthesia in Artwork Audio Descriptions
Silvia Dini
(University of Parma, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries, Italy)
Weihuan Hou
(Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design, Italy)

 

.-Audio description of the visual arts for the blind and visually impaired. Cognitive and synaesthetic bases of an intersemiotic translation/ La audiodescripción de las artesvisuales para personas con discapacidad visual. Bases cognitivas y sinestésicas de unatraducciónintersemiótica
Laura Carlucci
(University of Granada,Department of Translation and Interpreting, Spain)

 

.-On “grapheme”-color synesthesia: is the grapheme the fundamental “unit” of synesthetic perception?
Nicholas Root University of Amsterdam Netherlands

.-Are You a Polyglot? No, I Am a Synesthete
Lecture by Smadar Frisch, Host and Podcaster of Chromatic Minds

Synesthesia and Literature

.-Sinestesia y Metacognición
Francisco Acuyo Donaire (FIAC and UGR, Granada. España)

 

.-Science and Art.Synaesthesia and Hypermnesia in Contemporary
Literature
Nadine Nadia Sigalov (TheUniversityofGlasgow, United Kingdom)

Synesthesia and Philosophy

.-Why is synesthetic perception interesting for philosophers?
Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy, Poland)

 

.-Sensitivity and Creativity: Synaesthesia Awareness for Engineering Students in Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xiaodi Sun(Northwestern Polytechinical University P.R.China)
NinghuiXiong(ChineseSynaesthesia Alliance P.R. China)

 

.-Emerging Research on Synaesthesia
Jamie Ward (School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom)

 

.-Synesthetic Photisms, Hypnagogic, and Hypnopomic Visions: Lost and Found
Carol Steen (Touro University, United States)

.-Synesthetic Skies. Exploring the Aurora Borealis Through Multisensory Perception
CC Hart (artist and IASAS Secretary, USA)
Concetta Abatte (artist, USA)
Carrie C. Firman (artist and graphic designer, USA)
Jasmin Rani Sinha (synaesthesia consultant, Belgium / Luxembourg / Germany)
Simon Van Wees (artist, Netherlands)

Synesthesia and Technology

"Metamorfosis"
Sergio Basbaum (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brasil)

 

.- Synesthesia Gallery 2 AR: Learning about the Creativity of Cross-Modal Perception and Neuroesthetics of the Gallery Game Outdoors
Svetlana Rudenko (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Richard Roche (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Mads Haahr (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

 

.-Translating Desire:A Proof-of-Concept Project for a Low-Cost, Portable Microcontroller System to Explore Sexual Arousal and Synesthetic Perception
Rudolf Arnold (SEADS Collective, Germany)

 

.- The Smell of Gold Making a synaesthetic perfume
Raewyn Turner (Artist New Zealand)

 

//Around synesthesia and multisensory from Arab countries

.-The integration of the senses (Synesthesia) in ophthalmology through the (Al-Kamil fi al-Sina'a al-Tibbiya)
Ali bin Al-Abbas Hessa Aljabr(King Saud University Saudi Arabia)

The integration of the senses and their role in sensory interconnectedness in the design of products for people with disabilities
Rehab Mahmoud Elhebary(Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Printed Textile Trends and Designing Future Fashion. RashaRagab Ibrahim Hussein Badawy(Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

Integrating AI with smart materials in interior design: Towards residential environments that interact with the user in real time to achieve human comfort. "
Mahmoud Mohamed ElshahatAbdelmetwaly(Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

Symbolic Trends in Contemporary Visual Design:
An Analytical Study of the Use of Symbols in Print Media and Digital Platforms within the EgyptianContext
Doaa Elmantawy (Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University,
Faculty of Arts and Design, King Salman International University
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt)
Mysara Almoteey (Faculty of Applied Arts, Egyptian Russian University
Cairo, Egypt)

Use of window glass cullet with chromium salt in producing green and yellow ceramic composites
Marwa Sadek (Faculty of Applied Art, Badar University, Cairo, Egypt)
Esmat M.A. Hamzawy (Glass Research Department, National Research Centre, Egypt)
Zeinab A. Abd El-Shakour (Geological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, Egypt)

 

Características  / Características de cada panel 

  • The languages of the conference are English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation.
Los idiomas del congreso son el español y el inglés, contando con traducción simultánea.
  • 5 min introduction to each panel by the moderator
  • Cada panel será presentado por el moderador (5 min)
  • 5 min break between presentations for next lecturer and technical rework
  • Se contará con 5 min entre las presentaciones para el cambio de ponente o cuestiones técnicas.

Tipos de presentaciones  Tipos de presentaciones

  • Conferencia inaugural // Orador invitado
  • Selección de los 4 mejores resúmenes //  Top 4 resúmenes ( 30 min.)
  • Comunicaciones largas // presentaciones largas (20 min)
  • Comunicaciones cortas // presentaciones cortas (15 min.)

Lugar de celebración – Venue

Convento Capuchinos- Alcalá la Real, Jaén

https://www.andalucia.org/listing/convento-de-capuchinos/16673102/

Palacio Abacial, Exposición de Arte antológica
https://www.andalucia.org/listing/convento-de-capuchinos/16673102/

Teatro Martínez Montañés

https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/agendaculturaldeandalucia/evento/cine-teatro-martinez-montanes-de-alcala-la-real

Comité Organizador/Organization Committee:

•    Directora: Mª José de Córdoba.( F.I.A.C & Dpto. de Dibujo UGR)

•    Codirectora: Dina Riccò. (Politecnico di Milano, Italia y FIAC).

•    Coordinadora FIAC: Julia López de la Torre (FIAC.)

•    Coordinadores Internacionales: Sean A Day, (IASAS y FIAC); Anton Sidorof Dorso (Delegación FIAC Rusia); Ninghui Xiong ( Delegación FIAC ,China); Timothy B Layden (Delegación FIAC, Inglaterra);  Gaby Cardoso (Argentina).

•    Directoras MuVi7: Dina Riccò,  (Univ. Politécnica de Milán& FIAC) y Mª José de Córdoba, UGR& FIAC, colaboradores: Jesús Pertíñez López, María del Carmen Hidalgo Martínez- Máster de Dibujo, BBAA, UGR. Coordinadores locales (próxima información)

•    Comité Científico: Sean A Day, Joerg Jewanski, Anton Sidoroff Dorso, Danko Nikolic, Dina Riccò, Mª José de Córdoba, Helena Melero, Oscar Iborra

   Colaboradores y coordinadores: Representantes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Helena Melero; (Decanato Bellas Artes, UGR); Gloria Lapeña, Jesús Pertíñez López (Máster Dibujo,UGR); Francisco Toro Ceballos, técnico de cultura, Alcalá la Real; Federico Barquero Mesa, Delegación FIAC, Alcalá la Real; Antonio Horno,Manuela García Lirio y Ana Tirado, UJA; Juan García Villar, Dpto, Pintura, UGR. Emilio Gómez UGR, Dpto de Psicología Experimental, UGR; ; Ninghui Xiong (Painting Music Synesthesia in Art Studio coodinador con Hangzhou Normal University). Svetlana Rudenko and Jame Ward, UK Synaethesia; Markus Zedler, Hannover Medical School, Clinic for Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy ;head of the Hannover Synaesthesia Workgroup, founder of the German Synaesthesia Association (DSG). Mohamed Ahmed Radi Abouarab (Universidad Kafrelsheikh, Egipto, delegado y coordinador Internacional en Egipto, Oriente Medio Africa y Países Arabes); Oscar Iborra, Dpto.Psicología Social, UGR. Reynal do Fernández Manzano, Centro de documentación musical, Junta de Andalucía.

•    Traducción simultánea: Julia López de la Torre & Timothy B Layden  (expertos traductores/conocedores del tema)

Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to

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dina.ricco@polimi.it.

Sponsors 

UGR, Politecnico di Milano, Hannover Medical School ,German Synaesthesia Association (DSG),Hangzhou Normal University, Chinese Synaesthesia Alliance, Conservatorio Superor de Música Victoria Eugenia, Granada; UK synaesthesia. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; IASAS. Centro de documentación musical, Junta de Andalucía. The Arabic Association of civilitation and islamic Arts

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