2005 NEWS

DON'T JUST SEE IT, SORT IT
new Government Health and Safety slogan... see

http://www.watchyourstep.hse.gov.uk

Seen on my sandwich bag Szczels 14:41, 22 November 2005 (GMT). See: www.bagmedia.com

COLOURBLIND: creative marks and noises
Nolia's Gallery

322 Old kent Road

SE1 5EU

19th to 22nd November

tel:02077019111

and (recommended)

HER NOISE
South London Gallery 10th November to 18th December 2005

http://www.southlondongallery.org

http://www.hernoise.com

note esp the West End Electrical Walks by Christina Kubisch

arts unwrapped
Europe's biggest open studio art event invites us to

'''Visit...  See...  Buy...  Participate... '''

If the 'Visit' and 'Participate' are muscle action and the 'See' stands in for sense; then the 'Buy' seems to stand in for thinking and discourse... Artists have to live but does this slogan give away a consumerist truth behind the promotion of art and culture?

For More Information http://www.creativelondon.org.uk/artsunwrapped

The Art of Walking on Resonance FM
Appears to have been cancelled or postponed

Friday 14th October and every friday at 14.00 hours BST The Art Of Walking Dr. Alasdair Dickson

Walking styles and the history of walking explored with UCLâ€™s Dr.Dickson

Resonance Radio London 104.4 Fm

See Listings for 14th October 2005 and listen here

Further information on listening to ResonanceFM

Sense:Abscence
An exhibition by a group of three book artists going under the collective name of Faction shed light on the senses using the tactile and visual format of the book, film and hands-on installation. The artists are Emily Artinian, Heather Weston and Lin Charleston.

19th October to 6th November 2005

open Wed to Sun 12-6pm

The Showcase

Clerkenwell Green Association, Pennybank Chambers,

33-35 St Johns Square, London EC1

nearest tube: Farringdon

See:

Let Your Sense Go Wild
The London Wetland Centre looks at how animals sense. 

Touch Me
Contemporary Space at the V&A Museum, London 16 June to 29 August 2005

A V&A and Wellcome Trust Exhibition


 * "This June the V&A, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, opens a uniquely touchable contemporary design exhibition, Touch Me, which explores the pleasures and sensations of touch, looking at the designed world around us now and what the future holds."

For more details

Sensory Formations
Series Editor: David Howes, Concordia University, Montreal

'''Major STA related publishing event! Starting this year.'''

'Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader' (Ed. David Howes) "documents the sensual revolution in the humanities and social sciences, and reclaims sensation as a domain for cultural inquiry."

Other books in the series include:

'The Auditory Culture Reader' (Eds Michael Bull & Les Back)

'The Smell Culture Reader' (Ed. Jim Drobnick). (Publication date: February 2006)

'The Book of Touch' (Ed. Constance Classen) (Publication date: September 2005)

'The Taste Culture Reader' (Ed. Carolyn Korsmeyer) (Publication date: August 2005)

'Cultures of Vision' (Eds Elizabeth Edwards & Kaushik Bhaumik) (Publication date: April 2006)

'The Sixth Sense Reader' (Ed. David Howes) (Publication date: April 2006)

Find out more: []

Berg also publish the Sense and Sensibilities series:

BERG PUBLISHERS (Oxford and New York)

Senses and Sensibilities
Series Editors: David Howes and David Sutton

The series is now seeking manuscripts (see below for details concerning submission)


 * "The Senses & Sensibilities series will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and other scholars interested in issues related to the formation of sensibilities and social life of the senses and emotions."


 * "The sensual revolution in cultural studies has precipitated an intense new focus on the senses as mediators of experience, eclipsing the role formerly played by â€˜discourse', â€˜text' and â€˜picture'. The senses are constructed and lived differently in different periods and societies, and this fact has profound implications for how cultural subjects apprehend the environment, as well as other persons and things in their environment. The life of the senses is intimately linked to the life of the emotions, a subject which has also begun to receive increased attention, belying the old notion that the â€˜examined life' is an exclusive affair of the intellect."

For more details see: []

In Our Time, The History of Ideas, with Melvyn Bragg - MP3 downoad
28th April Radio 4 Programme PERCEPTION AND THE SENSES Currently downloadable as an MP3

In Our Time MP3

In OUr Time

Contributors

Richard Gregory, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Bristol University

David Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham

Gemma Calvert, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath

The Corporation - Talk, Learn. Act
This is the 'logo' of the hit documentary film The Corporation - see their website DocBack Talk - learn - Act  seems pretty much equivalent to Sense - think - Act.

International Conference on Visual Literacy
April 14 and 15, 2005. (Thursday, Friday)

A conference on the concept of visuality, with an associated exhibition and workshops. University College Cork, Ireland is the anchor institution for Image History, a cooperative venture of several institutions.

UCC

UCC also has:

The Representation of Pain
April 22 and 23, 2005. (Friday, Saturday)

An international conference on the representation of pain in all media, with special emphasis on the images known as the "death of a thousand cuts," made in China in the first years of the twentieth century. The conference aims to theorize the representation of pain, taking these images as its central example.

'Colouring the Future' Edward de Bono conference 14th March
'''Atkeysolutions is de Bonos educational training organisation (also courses by Tony Buzan)

New Gondry film The Science of Sleep
'''Gondry, Michel dir. new film The Science of Sleep is in production January 2005'''

Why You Have at Least 21 Senses
A special issue of New Scientist magazine

''Vision could be viewed as one sense, or four, or more. The more we study our sense organs, the more sense we appear to have.''

The lead article by Bruce Durie introduces a whole new category of internal senses not included in STA to date, the 'interoceptors', which measure things like 3 types of blood pressure, blood oxygen content, cerebrospinal pH, plasma osmotic pressure (or thirst), artery/vein blood glucose difference (or hunger), bladder stretch, lung inflation, stomach fullness etc. It suggests a 'radical' breakdown of sensory functionality leads to 33 or more senses. Anyone know any good 'exercises' for interoceptors within awareness?!?

New Scentist magazine 29th January 2005

Pop goes STA
The Thirteen Senses - debut album the invitation

A music group from Cornwall called 'The Thirteen Senses' (coincidence? see STA introduction) has just launched its highly publicised debut album (January 2005). I haven't heard it but it is strange to see 13 Senses advertised everywhere. http://www.thirteensenses.com/ unofficial site http://www.thirteensenses.tk/

That's not all...

'Pushing The Senses' is Feeder's fifth studio album "These ten songs adopt a sobering melancholy wholly different to the exuberance of earlier efforts" Lisa Haines BBC

Aussie punks Good Charlotte masquerading as 'The Food Group' have brought out a funny music video 'All You Can Eat'

The Word- Pamela Gordon
The Word - parallels to STA in new art film?

I've just come from the opening of Pamela Gordon's new show 'The Word'. The miniature paintings upstairs, almost lost in the gallery whiteness, i found hard to decipher. But the 11 minute film downstairs really caught my attention. Dealing with 'Body, Mind and Spirit' the images juxtaposed images of the Sixties, ideal and political, with weather reports. The contemporary parallels with my feelings on the Iraq /Tsunami juxtapostion in the media resonated powerfully.

Cut in were some cute quotes by Krishnananda (who?) amongst others. The parallels with Sense-Think-Act.org were pretty close. The film could almost be a commentary on the site.

Worth a look. Gimples is just down the street from 'Gordon Ramsey's' Claridges! (i.e. social context for those not in art know)

Pamela Gordon's The Word

Blind man found with sixth sense
'Super' sense lets blind man see emotions

Dr Alan Pegna of University of Wales Bangor has tested a man with brain damage to the usual visual processing area of the brain who only percieves darkness. The area of the brain known as the right amygdala seems to be activated by non-verbal signs of anger. Suzy Austin reporting in Metro 13-12-04 p19. referring to the Nature Neuroscience Journal.

Sixth sense lets blind man sense emotion

Dreaming of the Past
British Academy Senior Research Fellowshop for extracting historical facts from dreams

Dr Charles Stewart, of Univeristy College London UCL, claims that ancient burial sites can be unearthed through clues found in the dreams of contemporary inhabitants.

Dreaming of the Past

2004 Nobel Prize for Medicine
for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

Richard Axel (Columbia University, New York) and	Linda B. Buck Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA (both also at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

2004 Nobel Prize Laureates

Sensitive Taste Buds are Slimming
It seems that a sensitive palate leads to a diet that is less fattening

According to this news report Beverly Tepper, a professor of food science at the university in Trenton, New Jersey, says: "People who are non-tasters tend to like foods that are fattier, sweeter, hotter and more bitter... They tend to eat more fatty foods... What we believe is that if nontasters pursue this kind of dietary pattern over time, that this would lead to higher body weight."

Taste and fatness