Interdisciplinary focus: International Congresses of Synesthesia, Science and Art2005 to2018
Fundación Internacional Artecittà y la difusión del estudio interdisciplinar de la Sinestesia.
Interdisciplinary focus: International Congresses of Synesthesia, Science and Art2005 to2018
WE PUT SENSORY LABELS TO OUR PARTICULAR WORLD OF UNIQUE PERCEPTIONS, UNITING AND MIXING ALL OUR CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE OUTER WORLD, FILTERED BY OUR MOST DEEP EMOTIONS. Mjdecordoba
PONEMOS ETIQUETAS SENSORIALES A NUESTRO MUNDO PARTICULAR DE PERCEPCIONES ÚNICAS, UNIENDO Y MEZCLANDO TODOS NUESTROS CONOCIMIENTOS CONSCIENTES E INCONSCIENTES DEL MUNDO EXTERIOR, FILTRADOS POR NUESTRAS EMOCIONES MÁS PROFUNDAS. Mjdecordoba
In the year 2015 marks the tenth anniversary of the International Congress of Synesthesia, Science and Art is met, since in 2005 the International Foundation for Art City / Artecittà organized the first edition, held in Cuevas de Almanzora (Almeria, Spain), thanks in particular for the support of the University of Almeria and the city of Cuevas de Almanzora.
In these 10 years, the Artecittà Foundation has promoted a number of initiatives, events, seminars, festivals, training courses, publications and, above all, we are proud to say that it has been able to build a large scientific community about synesthesia, made first by the people, and for his passionate scientific work, but also by organizations and institutions that have enabled us to build a network of relationships that each edition has gradually expanded its geographical boundaries.
Ten years have resulted in having more participants in conferences and other activities of the Foundation on all continents (serve as an example multiculturalism of the speakers at our last Congress) and have been the germ of associations in other countries and inspiration for artists and scientists. Ten years of work that have led to the birth of new works of art and scientific research, new networks of promotion and explanation of synesthesia, congress, joining scholars and laypersons and especially personal synergies. The Foundation and its great harvest of ten years has only been possible thanks to the enormous effort of the people who compose and above all the dirige- and broken down into small networks generating knowledge and passion for this condition later with his feedback, they return to help the growth of the Foundation beyond national, mental or emotional geographical boundaries. If synesthesia is essentially the union of senses, the essence of Artecittà Foundation is joining forces and feelings of people who have wanted to involve around synesthesia.
Mª José de Córdoba
Dina Riccò
Julia López de la Torre
(En actas del V Congreso Internacional de sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte 2015)
(En el 2015 se cumple el décimo aniversario del Congreso Internacional de Sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte, ya que en 2005 la Fundación Internacional Arte Ciudad / Artecittà organizó la primera edición, que se celebró en Cuevas de Almanzora (Almería, España), gracias en particular por el apoyo de la Universidad de Almería y el Ayuntamiento de Cuevas de Almanzora.
En estos 10 años, la Fundación Artecittà ha promovido un gran número de iniciativas, eventos, seminarios, festivales, cursos de formación, publicaciones y, sobre todo, estamos orgullosos de decir que ha sido capaz de construir una gran comunidad científica sobre la sinestesia, hecha en primer lugar por las personas, y por su trabajo científico apasionado, pero también por las organizaciones e instituciones que nos han permitido construir una red de relaciones que cada edición ha ampliado gradualmente sus límites geográficos.
Diez años que han dado como fruto contar con más participantes en los congresos y demás actividades de la Fundación de todos los continentes (sirva de ejemplo la multiculturalidad de los ponentes de nuestro último Congreso) y que han sido el germen de asociaciones en otros países y la inspiración para artistas y científicos. Diez años de andadura que han provocado el nacimiento de nuevas obras de arte y de investigación científica, de nuevas redes de promoción y explicación de la sinestesia, de congresos, de unión de estudiosos y legos en la materia y sobre todo, de sinergias personales. La Fundación y su gran cosecha de diez años solo ha sido posible gracias al esfuerzo ingente de las personas que la componen –y sobre todo que la dirige- y la descomponen en pequeñas redes generadoras de conocimiento y pasión por esta condición que posteriormente, con su feedback, volverán a ayudar al crecimiento de la Fundación más allá de fronteras geográficas nacionales, mentales o emocionales. Si la sinestesia es en esencia la unión de sentidos, la esencia de la Fundación Artecittà es la unión de las fuerzas y sentimientos de las personas que se han querido implicar en torno a la sinestesia.
“MuVi4is the fourth edition of a festival dedicated to visual music – which follows MuVi (Granada, 2007), MuVi2 (Granada 2009), Muvi3 (2012)
- integrated into the V International Congress of Synesthesia event: Science and Art, from 16 to 19 May, 2015, in the Auditorium of the Capuchin Convent de Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain), and from 19 to 23 May at the Casa Museo de los Tiros, Granada.
The event’s main objective is to provide one perceptive (and synesthetic) audible response of the theoretical content being addressed by conference presentations , discussions, and posters.
As in previous editions, the material was collected by a call for kinetic works – published in http://muvi-visualmusic.tumblr.com – an invitation to submit works in any form of digital “moving image”, kinetic works only visual, audio, or interactive, directed either to artists, musicians, designers, or performers.
The wealth of material collected is believed to present a variety of approaches, methods, design solutions, sometimes even a different “naïveté” or professionalism of the work presented.
This book gathers, with the catalog and videos, a selection of 29 works (out of 49 received) by authors in large part from different experiences and professional trainings , but also includes works produced in academia, presented by the teachers, or directly by students of universities, academies of fine arts, or music conservatories…
The origins of the participants are still dominated by the two host countries, Spain and Italy, and universities that sponsor the initiative, the University of Granada and the Politecnico di Milano, but more than half of the works come from other countries and participation is widely international with the presence of United Kingdom, Hungary, Canada, United States and Brazil…
We are pleased to report that the number of participants grows every year; this allows us to be optimistic for the coming events.
In particular, our satisfaction is to see that MuVi has been a stimulus for teaching activities at universities, academies, and conservatories. The initiatives were activated not only by the organizers and their respective institutions (Politecnico di Milano, University of Granada and Artecittà Foundation). In particular, we recall also the International Seminar on Synesthesia, Science and Art SISCAYC (Victor Parra, UPEL University, Venezuela, 2014, by agreement of collaboration with our Artecittà Foundation) and the International Visual Sounds Course Monograph proposed for Portugal in 2014; also the structure of the summer courses on Synesthesia, Science, Art and Creativity, held in Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería (2008, 2009, 2010); and The Grenadines Alpujarras, 2011. Therefore, MuVi wants to follow its plans to build a network of relationships and learning experiences on the subject of synesthesia and visual music.
Dina Riccò
(Politecnico di Milano)
María José de Córdoba
(Fondazione Internazionale Artecittà & Universidad de Granada)
¿Qué es sinestesia? La gente con sinestesia, tienen sensaciones inesperadas de experiencia sensorial haciendo cosas que no provocarían comúnmente esas sensaciones en una persona no – sinésteta (sinestésica). En algunos casos, esto significa que un sinestésico puede experimentar una sensación en uno de los 5 sentidos (oyendo, viendo, degustando, tocando, oliendo) percepción provocada por un sentido diferente (p. ej. sonidos que provocan gustos, olores que provocan colores, etc). People who have synesthesia have unexpected sensory experience while doing things that do not usually provoke these same sensations for people without synesthesia. In some cases, this means a synethetic person can experience one of the 5 senses (hearing, vision, taste, touch or smell) provoked by a different one (ex. Sounds that provoke taste, smells that provoke colors etc.)
From left to right: Richard E. Cytowic (U.S.), Edward M. Hubbard (U.S.), Noam Sagiv (Israel/U.K.) at the first congress (photo: Jewanski, 2005
Actualmente, se están llevando a cabo congresos y seminarios en otros continentes, como es el caso de China. Previos convenios, María José de Córdoba fue invitada a visitar China para dar varias conferencias sobre su investigación y sondeos de posibles sinestésicos, en octubre de 2016. Comenzando allí otro sondeo y proyectos relacionados con el Arte, creatividad y educación.
El próximo congreso se realizará en 2018, como siempre, con carácter interdisciplinar e internacional, más sus actividades paralelas, Ciencia y Arte, se unen, en Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Epaña
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