12. Mai 2015, 11.00 Uhr Interface Culture Lecture Room, Kollegiumgasse 2, 3.OG
Vortrag von Dr. Katharina Gsöllpointner im Rahmen der Interface Cultures Lectures Series In my lecture I will introduce the arts-based-research project Digital Synesthesia. I will present the project‘s main hypothesis, which states, that digital art – because of its digital, i.e. binary code based, constitution – can provide synesthetic experiences for non-synesthetes. As synesthesia is a special phenomenon of perception it can serve as a good example for the research of perception in general. Likewise and vice versa, digital art can serve as an aesthetic analogy to synesthesia and therefore help investigate its aesthetic components. Research findings seem to indicate more and more that perception is not only a process of mere sensory-based stimuli but also influenced by semantic and conceptual inducers. On the basis of exemplary digital artworks I will describe structural (syn)aesthetic correlations between synesthesia and digital art. Katharina Gsöllpointner