so some seminal writings on synesthesia only reach me in translation.
You're probably familiar with the work of Bulat Galeyev and his colleagues
at the Prometheus Institute, http://prometheus.kai.ru/sines_e.htm. I see
that the "Galeyev Readings" conference has been announced on Yasmin.
best,
-- Paul
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:08 PM, sergio basbaum <sbasbaum@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> For some strange reason, gmail was sending this conversation to my sent
> mail
> folder.
>
> No, unfortunately, my book had just 1.000 copies printed, and it is very
> hard to find a copy. I've made some attempts to have a second print in the
> last years, but I did not succeed for many different reasons -- mostly too
> much work, in fact.
>
> One of my goals for this year is to fix this. But it is in portuguese,
> anyway... (Sinestesia, arte e tecnologia -- fundamentos da cromossonia)
>
> best from Brazil
>
> s
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Paul Hertz <ignotus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sergio,
> >
> > Is your book available? A serach of Amazon did not turn it up.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > -- Paul
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:05 PM, sergio basbaum <sbasbaum@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear yasminers,
> > >
> > > I's like to thank Raewin Turner and the Yasmin people for this
> > invitation.
> > > I introduce myself:
> > >
> > > I was born in 1964 in São Paulo, where I still live and work -- as a
> > > teacher
> > > at PUC-SP. I started my professional carreer as musician -- I still
> play
> > > --,
> > > but I made my bachelor studies in Cinema, when I started to study the
> > > relations among colors and sounds, what has led me to made a master's
> in
> > > the
> > > subject of synesthesia. This turned into a small book, called
> > "Synesthesia,
> > > art and technology" (2002), a combination of some material from
> > psychology
> > > and neurosciences on the topic of synesthesia and a small inventory of
> > > art-works that aimed different kinds of multisensory solutions. This
> work
> > > already suggested some links among digital culture and synesthetic
> > > experiences, developed in much broader scope in my PhD work, about the
> > > impact of an omnipresent digital environment on perception and meaning.
> I
> > > was then already involved with the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty on
> > > perception, along the works of Contance Classen and David Howes, the
> > > Canadian Anthropologists that have been doing an extraordinary work in
> > the
> > > Anthropology of the senses.
> > > I keep it very interdisciplinar, however, bringing ideas from many
> other
> > > artists and authors -- Heidegger, Flusser, McLuhan, Benjamin, Maturana
> > and
> > > Varela are some I often like to quote --, and since I teach nowadays
> > > cognitive science, I keep an eye on contemporary science's discussion
> on
> > > the
> > > senses. My last effort has been a post-doc work on the relations among
> > > perception and language under a primacy of meaning. I'd say I've been
> > > working with the senses for more than 15 years now.
> > > For seven years (2001-08) I teached classes devoted to the discussion
> of
> > > multisensory perception with bodyarts (dance, acting, performance)
> > > undergraduate students, which constituted a remarkable
> interdisciplinary
> > > laboratory of theory and practice on multisensory perception.
> > > Look forward a beautiful conversation on the topic next weeks,
> > >
> > > Best from Brazil
> > >
> > > Sérgio Basbaum
> > >
> > > --
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