Habitus in Habitat III. Synesthesia and Kinaesthetics
Freitag, 22.10.2010 bis Sonntag, 24.10.2010
 
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3.
Et., Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308
 
In Cooperation with:
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung an der Humboldt-Universität
Berlin

Hosted by the project Emotion and Motion.

Synesthesia and Kinaesthetics - Third conference in the series Habitus in
Habitat

This conference will address Synesthesia and Kinaesthetics as two key concepts
for the understanding of the interface of habitat and experience, of engaging,
presenting and perceiving phenomena of habitus as a component of a shared
environment. Synesthesia and Kinaesthetics will strive to engage questions of
sensual embedded interaction and their habituations – and moreover it will
expand this interdisciplinary inquiry to questions about the sociality and the
cultures of sensory habitus.
 
PROGRAM

Friday, 22 October, 2010

12:00 Conference Opening
Sabine Flach/Jan Söffner (ZfL), John Michael Krois (Forschergruppe Bildakt und
Verkörperung), Arno Villringer (School of Mind and Brain)

12:30-15:00 Phenomenologies of Synaesthesia
Chair: Stefan Willer (ZfL)

Richard Cytowic (Washington): Illuminating What Is Hidden. The Synaesthete’s
Creative Mind

Hinderk Emrich (Hannover): The World of Synaesthesia. Subjectivity and
the Brain
– Constructivity and Synthesis

Karl Clausberg (Lüneburg): Scrolled Voices. Synaesthetic Encounters of a
Different Kind

15:30-18:30 Feeling and Cognition
Chair: Alex Arteaga (Berlin)

John Michael Krois (Berlin): Image Schemas in Intermodal Perception
Sabine Flach (ZfL): Feel the Feeling. Media-Installations as Laboratories of
Senses
Aikaterini Fotopoulou (London): The Transitional Body. Insights from
Anosognosia
for Hemiplegia and Somatoparaphrenia
Paul K. Cumming (Munich): Synaesthesia as a Natural Aberration of Sensory
Pathways. Evidence from Functional Brain Imaging Studies

19:00 Art Presentation
Mind Chatter by Kate Hollett (Toronto)

Saturday, 23 October, 2010

10:00-13:00 Embodied Enaction
Chair: Rebekka Hufendiek (Berlin)

Dan Hutto (Hertfordshire): Understanding Synaesthesia, Radically Enactively
Caroline Jones (Cambridge, MA): Embodiment and Experience
Jörg Fingerhut (Berlin): Sensorimotor Signature, Skill, and Synaesthesia
Felix Blankenburg (Berlin): Somatosensory Information Processing

14:30-17:00 Spatialities
Chair: Daniel S. Margulies (Leipzig)

Heinz Paetzold (Kassel): Experiencing the Urban Environment in Its Atmospheric
Characters
Michael Schwab (London): Making Connections. An Artistic Investigation
into the
Abstract Nature of Inhabited Space
Isabelle Moffat (Berlin): Spatial Thoughts: Abstraction, Architecture,
Language

17:30 Modernities
Chair: Franck Loric (Berlin)

Gerhard Scharbert (ZfL): "Correspondances" – Synaesthesia, Senses, and
Modernity
Wolfgang Ernst (Berlin): The Temporal Gap. On Asymmetries within the So-Called
"Audiovisual" Regime (in Sensory Perception and in Technical Media)
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (Århus): Why Is Green a Red Word?

Sunday, 24 October, 2010

9:30-12:30 Framing Synaesthesia
Chair: Maureen Jeram (Berlin)

Jennifer Barker (Atlanta): The Ethics of Synaesthetic Cinema
Robin Curtis (Berlin): Learning to Live with Abstraction. Filmic Reception and
Sensory Intermodality
Sven Spieker (Santa Barbara): Indifferent Affect – On Sensations in Art
Jan Söffner (ZfL): Synaesthesias of Reading. Rilke's Cross-Modalities

14:30-17:00 Cross-Modal Kinaesthetics
Chair: Einav Katan (Berlin)

Katrin Solhdju (Siegen/Brussels): Horse-Riding, Bird-Dancing, Dog-Keeping.
Isopraxis Inter-Species
Stefan Koelsch (Leipzig): Music, Movement, and Congition
Gabriele Brandstetter (Berlin): "Listening ..." Kinaesthetic Awareness in
Comtemporary Dance

Contact:
Jan Söffner
030/20 19 21 78
soeffner [at] zfl.gwz-berlin.de
 
For more informations see:
http://www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen//_/398/?cHash=03a49f2a77

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