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Raewyn
Announcing March 2010 YASMIN discussion: Multisensory Perception
Multisensory perception
Introduction by Raewyn Turner and Richard Newcomb
Invited Respondents:
Jenny Marketou, Hilda Kozari, Sergio Basbaum and Ian Ferguson
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We are perceiving the world with all our senses; In visual media we've
become mesmerised by the vibrancy of saturated coloured light, it
reminds us of the colours of the hypnagogic fireworks in our minds.
Ipods and MP3 players allow singular insular worlds of sound, which
have become a personal soundtrack to real life instead of its own
sound. Our sense of smell is informed by a synthetic overlay of
fragrance in our personal space, the larger environment is re-perfumed
with substitutes for the smells of nature and we make new associations
with smells never before encountered.
How do these combined nuances of mediated sensing feel under our
skins? What would a synthetic smell receptor be able to sense in
2020? and what are the consequences of being able to smell more-are
we numbed to most of the fragrance of our time? Although we seem to be
'anosmic?'?.. (the term for a lack of sense of smell) to most of the
fragrance of our time, odour signals are being transmitted, received,
translated and associated by all living beings in nature. Could we
grow an awareness of the full cross-sensory fragrance of life? These
are some of the questions we would like to discuss in the coming weeks.
Our first venue for discussing these issues was through a public
theatre/laboratory we constructed called 'Crossing Wires' which ran
over three weeks during November 2009 in a downtown storefront in
Auckland, New Zealand. The installation was both a working laboratory
and a performative spacewhich provided us with an alternative venue
to develop our dialogue on cultural, social and temporal constructions
of olfactory sensing, building a relationship between the languages of
science and art. Human smells were collected and processed, and
passers-by were invited to experience, the smells and engage in
dialogue. The lab was the 1st step towards collecting, categorising
and coding of the human plume. For more detail see our blogsite for
the installation (www.crossingwireslab.tumblr.com)
Our respondents: Jenny Marketou, Hilda Kozari, Sergio Basbaum and Ian
Ferguson will join this discussion.
Richard Newcomb is a molecular biologist interested in the mechanism
and evolution of odour sensing in animals. Current projects include
the development of an olfactory biosensor using insect odorant
receptors and understanding the genetic bases of odour sensory acuity
and food preference in humans. Richard conducted his PhD in
Canberra. In 1996 he returned to New Zealand and has been based at
The Mt Albert Research Centre where he is Science Team Leader,
Molecular Sensing, Plant & Food Research, and Associate Professor of
Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Auckland. Richard is an
author on over 50 publications and is an inventor on five patents.
He is an investigator at two of New Zealand's Centres for Research
Excellence: a Principle Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for
Molecular Evolution and Ecology and an Associate Investigator at the
Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery.
Raewyn Turner is an interdisciplinary artist investigating cross-
sensory perception and the uncharted territories of the senses. Her
multi-sensory, mixed media works have been shown in numerous national
and international exhibitions and performances, including Museum of
Contemporary Art, LA, Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, 11th
Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Architecture
2007,Prumyslovy Palace, Prague, Argentina, Georges Pompidou Center,
and Te Papa Museum of New Zealand.
Her work includes video, smell, coloured light, artefacts, and live
performance with orchestras, jazz and contemporary music and dance;
and has been published in 'Art of the Biotech Era', International
Congress Synaesthesia, Art and Science 2009, 2007, Generative Art
2006, 2004, and Performance Research 2003 'On Smell'.
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