List of Contributing Participants for Sensory Worlds, 7-9th December

 

 

PAPERS

Please note that the order of papers within these sessions is not yet confirmed.

 

Technology and the Wasting and/or the Enhancement of the Senses

 

1. Gatt, Caroline

Title - Air and Fibre Optic Cables: How Co-Presence is Really Generated

 

2. Glenney, Brian

Title - Hearing Real Colors with Adaptive Technologies

 

3. Thomas, Sue (WITHDRAWN)

Title - Connected Nature and the Cybersensorium

 

4. Rush-Cooper, Nicolas

Title - The Making-Sense/ate of Radiation in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation

 

5. Colligon, Fabienne

Title - Technology and the Wasting and/or Enhancement of the Senses

 

6. Merchant, Stephanie

Title - Negotiating Underwater Space: The Sensorium, Technology and the Practice of SCUBA Diving

 

 

The Imagination and the (Inter)Play of the Senses

 

1. Blom, Katrina

Title - Interiorities and Exteriorities of Rejection in Fictional Space; Gernot Böhme’s Atmosphere Revisited

 

2. Morris, Nina

Title - Dark Landscape: From a Realm of Visual Uncertainty to a Textured Realm of Reflection.

 

3. Hayman, Eleanor

Title – A Reflection on San Rock-Art: How Can a Dormant Latent Ability Within Humans Reconfigure our Responses to our Environment?

 

4. Henshaw, Victoria

Title - Sensory Mixes, Disciplinary Barriers: An Examination of the Multi-Sensory Nature of Urban Experience 

 

5. Hamilton, Alexander

Title – Photograms: A Phenomenological Response to Nature

 

6. Woodyer, Tara

Title - Allowing for the ‘As-If’, ‘What-If’ and ‘Something More’: The Embodiment, Vitality, and Ethical Responsiveness of Play

 

 

Value, Action and Environmental Engagement

 

1. Milligan, Tony

Title - Love for the Natural

 

2. Ashley, Tamara

Title – Feeling the Earth: Sensation and the Cultivation of Environmentally Sensitive Practices in the Work of Three Dance Artists

 

3. Willams, Aidan

Title - Exploring an Architecture of Heideggerian Form 

 

4. Mateescu, Oana

Title - Noise and Number: Proportional Relations in a Romanian Forest

5. Toois, Fereshteh

Title – Garlic and Greens: Accessible Soul Food Stories

 

6. Urry, Georgie 

Title - Neither Presencing nor Absencing: The Dampening Yet Persistence of Sense Within the Call Centre

 

 

Nature, Self and Society

 

1. Clark, Samantha

Title - ‘Nothing Really Matters: Jean-Paul Sartre, Negation and Nature’

 

2. Jenner, Keri

Title - A Phenomenological Immersion into a Riparian Landscape: Bodies, Environments and the Making of Place.

 

3. Baumgartner, Catherine 

Title - I Feel You: Exploring the Neural Fundamentals of Human-Nature Intersubjectivity and its Potential Impact on Environmental Values, Thought and Behavior

 

4. Hall-Elfick, Nicole

Title - The Aesthetic Experience of Nature and the Aesthetic Experience of People

 

5. Rautio, Pauline

Title - On Kids Who Carry Stones in their Pockets – Or the Articulating of One’s Material Environment as an

Autotelic Practice in Everyday Life

 

6. McCabe, Morgana

Title - Sensing the Witch in Early Modern Scotland

 

 

Animal Senses

 

1. Fudge, Erica

Title - Sensing Animal History: Or What Was it Like to be a Cow?

 

2. Wiseman, Sam

Title - The Primeval Voice in the Present Moment: Animality, Music and Birdsong in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

 

3. Parks, Tyler

Title - Animal, Human, Spirit: Becoming Animal and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

 

4. Ginn, Franklin

Title - The Quick and the Dead: Slugs, Slime, Fantasy

 

5. McKechnie, Claire

Title – ‘Has a Frog a Soul?’: Amphibious Sensory Perceptions and the Gothic

 

6. Bearn, Gordon 

Title -  Sensual Semantics

 

 

Historical and Future Senses

 

1. Tafalla, Marta

Title – Smell, Anosmia, and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature

2. Mansell, James

Title - Re-enchanting Modernity: Techniques of Magical Sound and the Genesis of the Twentieth-Century Self

 

3. Crawley, Heather

Title - Early Christianity as Embodied Practice

 

4. Dorrian, Mark

Title - Vision, Motion and Miniaturisation: The Political Imaginary of Powers of Ten

 

5. Barnaby, Alice

Title - The Art of Sensory Education: Exploring Environments Through Pin-Prick Imagery 1780-1850

 

6. MacGregor, Andrew 

Title -  Beyond the Senses: Bridging the Mind/World Divide

 

 

 

Installations

Works range from the material to the performative. The former are on display in Inspace, throughout the conference and on the Saturday 10th December also. The latter are being timetabled into the conference schedule.

We TOUCH by Atanas Totlyakov

Touchstones  by Jessica Harrison 

Craws I by Amanda Thomson

It’s so Dark Inside the Hive by Christina Stadlbauer

Rivers of Hades: Forgetfulness Rosalyn Driscoll and Tereza Stehlikova

I Like the Unpath Best by Allan Harkness and Muris (Neil Davidson and Liene Rozite)

Sensory Alchemy: A Laboratory of Failure by Richard Ashrowan

AV Walk by Shiori Usui and Rocio Jungenfeld

Cohabitation by Emma Quayle

Sharp Tones / Invisible Join by Kate Foster and James Wyness

Underwing by Laura Woodward

Sounding Underground by Ximena Alarcon 

The Sensorial Object by Ines Amado 

The Enigma of Place by Mary Modeen and Iain Biggs

Body Space by Rebecca Graaff

A Tree is a Living Thing by Reiko Goto and Tim Collins

Edinburgh Smell Maps by Kate McLean

Selected works by Allyson Pattie, Inbal Droval, Jospeh Calleja, Mersa Anastasiadou and Deeksha Surendra, Catriona Gilbert, Betsy Davis, Rosalie Monod de Froideville, and Laura Trujillo, of the Art Space Nature Programme at Edinburgh College of Art.

 

DISCUSSION PANELS

 

Disgust

Maria Androulaki; Victoria Henshaw; Alison Crockford

 

Virtual Reality

Richard Pomerance; John Harries; tbc

 

Political Senses

Michael Gallagher; tbc; tbc;

 

Desire

Betsy Davis; Jonathan Delafield-Butt; Wallace Heim (tbc)

 

(Re)Connection

Mike Anusas; Em Strang; Stefanie Belharte

 

Modern Sensibilities

Susanne Schmitt, Fionagh Thomson, David Abram