092274/Z/10/Z: Sensorium Tests
- Date:
- 2012
- Reference:
- WT/C/6/3/40
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
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Project Summary:Taking as its starting point a real-life scientific experiment on mirror-touch synaesthesia (2005, by S.J. Blakemore, D. Bristow, G. Bird, C. Frith, and J. Ward), Sensorium Tests, a 20 minute long, 16mm experimental art film, sets out to be the first artwork to express the sensory effects of this neurological condition, experienced by perhaps one in twenty-five people, in which visually observed touch to others' bodies is perceived as a touch to the synaesthete's own body. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach in my treatment of the theme of perception, I will draw on film aesthetics, neuroscience and my rich background in artmaking to interrogate the possibility of evoking a visceral sense of 'touch' through the audio visual medium of film.
Grant Holder:Ms Daria Martin
Organisation:University of Oxford
Financial Year:2009/2010
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