1) Summarise your project in two lines
Bingxin: Based on our common interest on synesthesia, and technology-art, I researched theories and projects related to embodiment, interaction, and body awareness, thinking about how we can emphasize the body-focused sense (like touch/smell) in computational art works to
question the public arbitrary perception (of what?). Also as form and medium, how can we break through visual domination (like convey everything on screen)?
Juliette: While we discussed synaesthesia last meeting, I started to research about senses and became interested in smell. For the multiple reasons I mentioned during our second meeting, I am interested in smell as a “paradigm shifter” sense, one that can disrupt the hegemonic organisation of our senses inherited from modernist “clinical gaze” (i. e Foucault).
Julia: Rather than defining concrete data, opening alternative boundaries by requisitioning the systems through which we validate data. Based on synesthetic experiences, enhance that there is no objective real out there that we can perceive as it’s altered through our perception, which is based on socially pre-built assumptions and personal neurological functions. As juliette proposed, I am interested in digging in smell as a non-conceptualised (and so on “more pure”) sense to explore a non-contaminated-by-the-brain connector with the out there. As we have no
words, and so prejudices, for smell, we can use it as a tool to demystify the objectivity we believe we live through. (a rose that smells like shit, and a shit that smells like a rose? use visuals? try avoid falling into cheesyness and have a bit of irony).
Ccl: Meanwhile discussing our interests we got to a common “topic” that we wish to explore. We believe that smell is constitutive of one’s identity. Therefore, how can we implement smell in the progressive discourse around gender and question the a-smell aspect of our visual culture highly influenced by non-smelly technological objects.
2) What are the overarching area of research and practice?
Bingxin:embodied space, body awareness, movement awareness, neuroscience, interaction, installation art, public art
Juliette: Art, Technology (Physical Computing, Digital scent technology), Neuroscience, Philosophy (Post-modernism, post-structuralism, technofeminism), critical study.
Julia: theory of derive, phenomenology, objectifying otherness
CCl: Gender study, Neuroscience, Art, Technology, Biohacking.
3) What are the key questions or concerns you will address?
Bingxin: How can we construct body-focused senses experience to question the mainstream arbitrary perception of gender? //how do we build up our perception in general? How visual and semiotics (language, text) dominate our cognition of (something)?
Juliette: How can we use smell synaesthesia to question the normative construct of the modern sensorium? // How can we question image hegemony through synesthetic experiences involving “less-explored” bodily sensation (smell, touch, taste rather than sight, ear, textuality)? // How can we address body normative construct through bodily smell enhancement (with technology)?
Julia: What is the nature of nature and how can we access it as humans? Who and what create and validate our common believes? Unbuilt them through smell as a non-conceptualised sense. Use synesthesia as a way of demystifying newtonian (einstein) understanding of reality. As newtonian science says, there is an objective reality separate from us that we can percieve. As quantumn mechanincs say, we participate in the perception of the reality we seek to understand.(see schrodinger cat experiment).
Ccl: How can we construct body-focused senses experience to question the mainstream arbitrary perception of gender? How can we question image hegemony through synesthetic experiences involving “less-explored” bodily sensation? How to use technology as a non-cartesian mean to explore the body and the mind?
4) Why is your group motivated to undertake this project?
As living bodies, it felt almost natural to question the pre-established construct we evolve in. Boldly, we are interested in making new-sense of the world in which we operate through art and technology.
5) What theories will you use in your work to guide you?
Embodiment, body awareness, neuroscience, art, otherness, gender, Digital scent technology, Technofeminism.
6) What is the artefact you will work towards?
We consider our research as the base from which the outcome will emerge, therefore we can not be too specific yet. It might be an archive of experiments, a speculative design, a performance, but the form will be shape by our findings. We want to make the work accessible to a wide public (non white-cube) by using mainstream platforms such as a website, social medias, youtube, public spaces....
7) How will you document your project?
As mentioned, the archive will consist of the process; writings, experiments, visual data, audio and olfactive captions... We’ll be able to be more precise within a week.
8) Timeline for project milestones
Week 1:
_ Read Introduction from Caroline A. Jones “sensorium’,
_ Research Digital scent technology,
_ Research theoretical references on smell and gender,
_ Meet with neuroscientist friend,
_ Searching for local institutions/ laboratories dealing with scent.
== In-Between meeting (Thursday morning) sharing and catching up on each other researches.
== Second meeting (Sunday) Theory conclusions // application.
Week 2:
Experimental weeks based on previous studies (Same meeting rythm)
Week 3:
Experimental weeks on previous studies (Same meeting rythm)
Week 4:
Curatorial choices, presentation rehearsal, archive layout
References
Books, Articles
_ Performing Apps Touch and Gesture as Aesthetic Experience — Maria
Engberg_ Synaesthesia — Caroline A. Jones (Sensorium / MIT Press)
_ The interface at the Skin — Lone Koefoed Hansen (Interface Criticism /
Aarhus University Press)
-https://www.lensculture.com/articles/wen-hang-lin-silence-in-synesthesia-2
?fbclid=IwAR3OG-f37Y59JldwVtI6z8XW-TJLt3I8epUmLoiv5zaZATNjcR6SSxYWk9A
_ Exforme - Nicolas Bourriaud
- Speculative everything- Design Fiction and social dreaming. Anthony Dunne
and Fiona Raby.
- Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and Entanglement of Matter
and Meaning. Karen Barad
-On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense. Frederich Nietzsche.
-shrodinger’s cat Schrodinger and Qu.
Artists
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Sophie Call
Bruce Nauman
Francis Alys
Maki Ueda : http://v2.nl/archive/people/maki-ueda // http://scent-lab.blogspot.com/
Clara Ursitti : http://www.claraursitti.com/subclub.htm
Gayil Nalls : http://www.gayilnalls.com/world-sensorium.html
Sissel Tolaas : http://www.designindaba.com/profiles/sissel-tolaas
Art exhibition: https://www.tinguely.ch/en/ausstellungen/ausstellungen/2015/Belle-Haleine.h tml
Links
http://artandolfaction.com/
http://www.peterdecupere.net/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667101/
https://www.synesthete.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtFn1kcKym4
http://francisalys.com/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing/
http://www.bodydataspace.net/2017/04/ix-immersion-experience-symposium/
http://www.flong.com/projects/ifp/
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/11138/11171//
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/215961/215962
http://www.flong.com/projects/ursonography/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmexaPIOOd4
http://showstudio.com/project/queer/queering
https://www.materialthinkspace.com/intermaterial-alliances
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Nietzsche/Truth
_and_Lie_in_an_Extra-Moral_Sense.htm
# Term1_7
Smell - Group Research Project Proposal
© bingcomputing 2019
1) Summarise your project in two lines
Juliette: While we discussed synaesthesia last meeting, I started to research about senses and became interested in smell. For the multiple reasons I mentioned during our second meeting, I am interested in smell as a “paradigm shifter” sense, one that can disrupt the hegemonic organisation of our senses inherited from modernist “clinical gaze” (i. e Foucault).
Julia: Rather than defining concrete data, opening alternative boundaries by requisitioning the systems through which we validate data. Based on synesthetic experiences, enhance that there is no objective real out there that we can perceive as it’s altered through our perception, which is based on socially pre-built assumptions and personal neurological functions. As juliette proposed, I am interested in digging in smell as a non-conceptualised (and so on “more pure”) sense to explore a non-contaminated-by-the-brain connector with the out there. As we have no
words, and so prejudices, for smell, we can use it as a tool to demystify the objectivity we believe we live through. (a rose that smells like shit, and a shit that smells like a rose? use visuals? try avoid falling into cheesyness and have a bit of irony).
2) What are the overarching area of research and practice?
Juliette: Art, Technology (Physical Computing, Digital scent technology), Neuroscience, Philosophy (Post-modernism, post-structuralism, technofeminism), critical study.
Julia: theory of derive, phenomenology, objectifying otherness
3) What are the key questions or concerns you will address?
Juliette: How can we use smell synaesthesia to question the normative construct of the modern sensorium? // How can we question image hegemony through synesthetic experiences involving “less-explored” bodily sensation (smell, touch, taste rather than sight, ear, textuality)? // How can we address body normative construct through bodily smell enhancement (with technology)?
Julia: What is the nature of nature and how can we access it as humans? Who and what create and validate our common believes? Unbuilt them through smell as a non-conceptualised sense. Use synesthesia as a way of demystifying newtonian (einstein) understanding of reality. As newtonian science says, there is an objective reality separate from us that we can percieve. As quantumn mechanincs say, we participate in the perception of the reality we seek to understand.(see schrodinger cat experiment).
4) Why is your group motivated to undertake this project?
5) What theories will you use in your work to guide you?
6) What is the artefact you will work towards?
7) How will you document your project?
8) Timeline for project milestones
References