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 Thomas, Sue (WITHDRAWN)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
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