Notes -another world view too

sense of touch worsens as you age  lose touch receptors over the course of a lifetime thereis no actual word or term for this but its described as touch blind where people cant experience touch like your average jo  emotional,social touch - two systems factile and emotional crucial in child development which im pretty sure has been mentioned We still don't really understand how sexual touch works"We know embarrassingly little about it," Linden says. "Here's a very basic question that we can't fully answer: what makes the genitals different from the rest of the body? Obviously other parts of the body can lead to sexual stimulation, but there's something special about the genitals. And we just don't know what it is." "Sexual sensation affects so much in our lives, our social organization, and what makes us human — and we don't know the biology of it." in contrast this made me think of a valid view point of culture/grouops-sexuality and Mormonism Mormons who have the belief of no sex before marriage which is a form of touch that affects ones social being. Chasity

Further Research

Constance Classen  The deepest Sense : a history in touch soft intimate caress senuous pain pleasure affection

touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world understandings of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the Middle Ages to modernity. feelings shaped society touch in social interaction to the disciplining of the body by the modern state, from the changing feel of the urban landscape to the  technologization of touch in modernity. !!!! narrative on how humanity’s relationship with touch has changed throughout history animal-human interactions-Intimate contact with animals was part of daily life in the premodern world aesthetics of touch social conformity of individuals were reshaping society. These limited the possibilities for the new emphasis on individuality to result in idiosyncratic behavior or a personal touch The book of touch: social life of touch virtual tactility of cyberspace to touch or not to touch a section on babies that talks about only touching them for functional purposes such as cleaning etc firm attitudes towards touch came about in late 19th cent and early 20th decline of breast feeding intro of mechanical feeding,anti-masturbation devices,early toilet training,circumcision diminish aesthetic enjoyment for a sense of connection with the material world self affirming self transcending energy social oppression joys of physical intimacy snuggling kissing hands skinscapes ,environment,embodiment culture skin knowledge -knowledge of the world as aquired through your skin  cultural ethos way of knowing hands they know: extensive and intimate knowledge of their physical surroundings personify bodily intelligence skin of earth -mythologies notion that the earth has a body and skin science-seek to peel back skin of earth well technologies providing a new one web of electronic interchanges landscapes resemblance of bodies  touch in classroom “teach dont touch” appropriateness but had a behavioral effect at home didn't want to hug and interact with parents either because it wasn’t okay at school,cause of confusion.  special issue skin issue  ordinary store window mannequin with a kind of wool that was likely to react to the skin’s bacteria. The mannequin’s body was completely covered except for its belly, where a Petri dish was used to display the skin’s bacterial reaction to the wool.

Experiment painting with the human body

Primarily using the body to create a painting inspired by my artist I was research but used paint as I do fine art it’s my comfort medium of choice.theres also a relationship between painting myself with the brush and hands before even touching the paper .using myself ass a stamp in a way.leaving behind a visible sense of touch and including myself in the piece .the paper was actually quite thin and when overwhelmed in areas with too much paint and movement began to break when touched which was also interesting to discover . Different parts of the body different types of touches left differnt marks imprints and texture for example my hair the lacy underwear hair on arms finger and footprints.

World Views

 The eight investigations include at least three different cultural worldviews or distinctly different worldviews Healing touch as an energy therapy  Natiave American Spiritual Healing is a form of Native American medicine that uses help and guidance from the spirit world in traditional rituals effected by a medium, or Shaman, to produce natural healing energy to treat the whole person - mind, body and spirit. It can also be referred to as Shamanic Healing practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Reiki are energetic techniques for stress reduction and relaxation that promote healing of mind, body and spirit Reiki is superstition, and they've urged Catholics not to provide or support it Studies suggest a number of ways touch can help us stay healthy. Massage, for example, has been shown to lower blood pressure, slow heart rate and even help premature babies gain weight Without thinking about it, some people can go hours, days or even weeks without any physical contact in their lives. Adding touch to your day is a simple way to harness its health-maximizing effects of less stress, pain management and a healthier body and mind. Touch doesn't have to be person to person. Use your down time to groom or pet your dog or let your cat nap in your lap as you make phone calls. These ancient Eastern method of healings use energy to balance the body and mind Sense of touch affects our worldview physical concepts warthm hardness roughness are first things a baby develops to rememebr and recognise and this can be linked to children and young adults and the abstarct concepts of people and relationships-physical experiences and behaviour link between sense of touch and the decsions people make in everyday life  most underappreciated sense in behaviorual research

Group Enlivening

I was absent in the weeks that took place but I thought i may as well note some ideas I had for this that i would've shared with my group and would've loved to have had a chance to execute.Based on my research and experiments I would want to develop upon that and create a platform for the class to walk across to experience the sense of touch.I had the idea that it could be a lifted platform so then if you were to fall (from a safe height) you would also experience the loss and absence of touch which has been quite central to my research about touch specifically to this generation and its growing online presence.The floor would be of different materials for the class so blindfloodely guess or describe what they're walking on as they explore.Potential  materials would need to be obviously safe to walk on but provoke different feelings ,emotions and thoughts from being various temperatures thicknesses hardness weights etc.Ice? could maybe stick if you stand for too long encourages you too move quicker through the touch not enjoy the touch cause its too cold.expression of treading or egg shells make that literal.old keyboards.paint,some kind of foods spaghetti something really squidgy that gets between you toes.bubble wrap does it pop that same on a large scale with less precise pressure being put on the bubbles.pillows or blankets?a feeling of comfort.human bodies lined up walking across backs .another thing to think about is the class mates is it something they walk through blindly on their own one at a time to avoiding bumping into each other or is that an interaction we want.are they to be in contact with each other the whole time.

Creating a Writing Project

what i decided on was trying out David Bowies cut up technqiue because i really admire the jumbling up abstract aspect of it and the unknowingness around what the outcome will be but instead of written with pen or a manafatured printed text i wanted to craft the text myself to imply this relationship of touch and put myself into the work.The words itself are just a desription of the ooblek experiment and orginally reads”creating the oobleck was an interesting experience the white gooey substance was fascinating to play with somewhat sticky and hard yet slippery and melts out your hand all at once i could be entertained by it all day” ” and its written in chalk a mixing medium linseed oil i think to play around with the fluidity and make it more like ink and of course the tools i’m using with my medium is my finger but i could've just as easily used toes or even elbows to write all of which would have a different outcome and would've have been different sensorium experiences.It was interesting to note that the more liquidy i made the mixture the more i enjoyed the experience of dipping into the bowl and transferring it to paper but it absorbed and dried quicker than if it was more chalk both quite hard to spread but would actually be quite interesting to paint with a brush in future projects.The final writing piece reads “I HAND OUT SUBSTANCE TO PLAY,EXPERIENCE THE GOOEY MELTS,FASCINATING ONCE OOBLECK,WHITE WITH SOME,CREATING ENTERTAINMENT BY DAYS,BE ALL INTERESTING,YOUR HARD,AN WHAT,WAS SLIPPERY AND THE STICKY,YET IT WAS.”the effect of chalk and body writing meant the text is inconsistent all different sizes and at sometimes unreadable but i love the fact that you can see finger prints and marks of touch and i view it as more of a handmade print than a text.

Week 5

In class writing experiment Prompts Who are they? (1min)  Raymond Pettibon ,Marcel Dzama,   Andrew Myers miguel chevalier,    team lab tokyo,Narcissa Gold  Sophia Brueckner ,Eric Rosenbaum Why are their ideas relevant? (3mins) each artist has their own unique way of exploring the sense of touch.Ideas are relevant to the times and current themes occurring in our generation with development of technologies and loss of physical touch and interaction we can see this in there ideas where both virtual approaches and bodily approaches to touch are taken embracing technology and also withdrawing from it to put emphasis back on the human touch but on the other hand we get sight into what touch is becoming in this new modern advanced world that is heavily reliant on technologies Why is their work/research relevant?(3mins) they've all put time into researching the best ways to communicate the sense of touch effective most appropriate which ways are personable mentally and emotionally touching too ?Research into why touch is so important and why its so overlooked and lost. music and touch painting the interaction of multiple senses how they can be used to heighten each other

How do those understandings broaden your understanding/investigations? made me think about techniques and ways i can employ of my own body to experience the maximum sense of touch and the way multiple senses can be used together.Understanding of how touch as a primary sense is so important.Made me think about other performance art pieces or common practices that exist in culture for example lying on bed of nails and walking on fire all things that are kind of viewed as tricks or magic and leave people in awe but really they are also an exercise of the serioum experience of touch and the bodies reactions.

What did you do?made oobleck,painted with my body ,popped bubble wrap also with my body What happened?I got to experience the sensations for my self doing also this research online and via books etc about touch is all good and well but your missing the key aspect which your investigating ,touch itself.being able to touch things for my self with my own sensorium enabled me to be fascinated with materials and overall showed me a different way of thinking What did you learn? mostly how to describe what i was feeling in better detail.Learning with the body experimenting with the body first hand in the best way to make art and do experiments using your sensorioum becoming apart of the work can mean a lot more say the women who invites people to touch her with chalk vs the painting which when touched makes sound both cool but on two very different levels of touch one i would describe as more intimate  and emotional sense of touch What would you do differently to develop this further?connections with other people.guests.other people around of the work my experiments were all done on my own but i think a big part of touch can be other humans and their relationships through touch and what those communicate.To achieve this i could've altered the things i did into competitions or comparisons of how someone elses body goes for example faster touch at popping the bubble wrap or the painting they would've made which there sense of touch and how it compared to mine,did we use the same body parts to paint with?changing materials to paint the body and paper with something with a different temperature?something not so smooth cool and runny?food?thinking about text and typography and this digital word it would be interesting to investigate how well adapted we are through blind-folding someone and then writing on a keyboard or a phone and really testing their sense of touch.keyboard memories the keys but how would you manage to type anything even comprehendable with all these smartphones without keyboards you can actually feel or are we that adapted that from just holding the rectangle phone itself and how often we use them wed have a sense of what to press anyways. I found this writing activity useful because it just forced me to write and allowed me time to think about the meaning behind what i’m learning ,researching and studying about.Shows me any gaps i may have or any final developments i may need or want to make because through my responses i’ve reflected on ways of thinking ,experiences,experiments,skills processes and practice.Allows me to just ramble and have thoughts that are ultimately showing my understandings and already developing new ideas and thinking of ways to improve and move along. 

Week 4

More Experiments

What I found most intersting about this experiment with popping bubble wrap was this sense of navigating with my hands ,my hands discovering and telling me wheter a bubble was or wasn’t popped yet followed by a confirmation of sound therefore a combinations of senses

Experiment

In a group discussion someone bought up the chemical reaction between cornstarch and water which id never heard anything about before so I was very interested in being able to try it out myself and touch the substance myself. I believe the term for it is Oobleck. Below ive attached photographic evidence of my experiment and some links to bigger scale experiments with the material and a link to the you tube tutorial i followed to get the amounts right. The best way to conclude my investigation i thought would be with a simple list of descriptive words,what it felt like;liquid and solid,quicksand,melting,runny,thick,hard,squishy,rubbery. kids walking on cornflour and water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkY2nT-3Glo tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usnp854FWb8 the science behind it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYTerCbDUzE

Week 3

doing making writing Julianna Preston ‘retch’ 2019 performance work investigate decolonization of writing and English language cutting,scrunching,pouring,ruining. reorganizing,actions with purpose,wet paper delicate crunch contrast dry paper handcraft touch deliberate printed text David Bowie ‘the cut up’ technique used only on a couple of songs usually it was just to ignite his imagination .attitudes .Used diaries for this exercise could end up contain predictions of future of aspects of the past.Personally I am quite a fan of taking a piece of writing and cutting it up and jumbling it up to create an abstract just like the group activity we did it can be quite humorous and end up with unexpected findings and revelations. Ricardo Krump Dada animating poem collage stop motion typography reconstruction of famous collages and pre-existing work mixed technique of computer animation and stop motion. out of his other works i was really drawn to the colors movements text and illustrative design work in the 2019 Bradesco lollapalooza Brazil work. Ann Hamiltion “un reading” may look like shes a body of destruction but shes just erasing text to make room for other stories. Mechanically produced texts is replaced by unrepeatable marks of body.Done with saliva and eraser.texture.becomes another form of body.back to front puts an emphasis on the UN making of it all.individual labor enacting a relation. taking ones body to produce another body.This way of making/writing has been my favorite so far i like the idea of this man-made text being disrupted by this handmade once off action because no erasure will be exactly like the other.bodily vs technology contrast clash battle.really feel like the marker becomes apart of the work itself which I enjoy. Shannon Te Ao Waiata Whakatoki  in his practice as a performace and video artist reciting english translations of waiata to animals richness of imagery which he hopes can expand in a way he can view the everday life and experience. Oded Ezer samples from 8 vids for memory place exhibtion 2013 typographic and multidimensional Xu Bing  Book from the sky  beautiful piece to look at in my opinion! hand printed books and ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letter pressed type ink on paper Carolee Schneeman up-to and including her limits from the picture i gather she documented thoughts via drawing.an isolated feeling from the small enclosed white room. chaotic via scribbles nakedness to me represents the intimacy shared and the relation between her and the privacy there is of sharing such thoughts.

Week 2

Rain room  Baribcan London bodily awareness a sense of touch without being literally touched by the rain sense of connectedness to rain and earth a “feeling”

Week 1 Independent Study

Starting my Investigation

my chosen sense or modality you are interested in finding out more about and want to focus your investigation on is touch/tactilation Produce 8-10 studies of your selection.

Drawing with Raymond Pettibon Marcel Dzama Human Touch September 20, 2019 Drips of paint falling across a canvas, erased charcoal, or a fingerprint left on a sculpture, all are lasting evidence of the human touch. Nuances both subtle and pronounced capture the handmade, one-of-a-kind essence of an artist’s work. This l visibility is what made Margaret Kilgallen’s large-scale paintings feel so personal. “My hand will always be imperfect, because it’s human,” mused Kilgallen. Remnants of human activity are also what steeps graffiti with intrigue for Barry McGee, acting as “a presence of other people doing things” on the fringe of society. Marcel Dzama admits that “if paint dripped across my drawing I would try to incorporate it,” whereas Raymond Pettibon, with whom Dzama frequently collaborates, “would just leave the drops.” Drawing from an array of practices, this collection of films explores the organic nature of artists whose work is marked by the human. https://youtu.be/IYd3k2Iv6qA Paper clip sensory experiment two point receptors most sensitive areas; finger,upper lip,cheek,palm,forhead foot least sensitive areas; bell,upperarm,back,shoulder,thigh,calf Ever been for a swim and youve been in there for hours or even a really long bath and you see your hands are all wrinkling like prunes.it an interesting bodily reaction to touching the water and i beleive its purpose is for better grip  Water Beads plunge hands into a bowl full of them and experience playing ,squishing them and how smooth they are. Accompany them with water or even shaving cream for a contrasting sensorium experience.Taking away the bowl can water beads bounce? Please Touch the Art: This Artist Creates Tactile Portraits for the Blind Andrew Myers uses screws to make 3-D masterpieces.artist has been drilling thousands of screws into pieces of plywood and painting them to make 3-D masterpieces 

“socia-tability’ is an interactive installation by french artist miguel chevalier that unites reality and virtuality, technology and poetry. a wooden table top becomes the medium for a range projections changing in real time.  interact with visitors who caress the table with their hands, where movements upset the apparent order of the pixels. straight lines crack, blend in with the veins of the wood and form abstract landscapes. an intuitive approach to interactivity, inviting the viewer to express themselves and to reconnect with their senses. this tangible techno-piece plays on our emotions as well as our sensations: we cannot resist the desire to draw near, touch it, and interact along with others.

tokyo-based team lab invite visitors to the hong kong arts centre, china into a hypnotic field of chroma, sound, and luminescence. the maze of giant orbs suspended from the ceiling and hovering above the floor that make up ‘homogenizing and transforming world’ are technologically infused so that simple human contact has the capability of changing the color of their exterior skin. the individual balls floating in the air communicate with each other through a wireless connection, morphing in hue when they bump into things, are touched by people.

https://narcissagold.com/home.html

She titled her exploration of human touch “My Body is Your Body is Everybody is Nobody.” the work invited strangers to dip their fingers in powdered charcoal and caress her body. She asked them to leave soot-stained fingerprints on her pale skin, blackened evidence of where their hands had roamed.Some people were quick, others lingered and took in the experience more by the end of herperformance, her neck, face, hands and belly bore smudges.Moving on from this performance of caress, over the next three Tuesdays, she will ask people to squeeze, slap and kiss her — all for the sake of art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTiQKB8p-IY man teaches blind people to use sense of touch and feeling their way around the canvas to paint he wanted to make painting an emotive experience rather than aesthetic. https://www.champagne-sensorium.com/reichenbach Porcelain Champagne bottle modernity tradition craftsmanship  true art involves touch unique piece hand made worldwide innovation develop,process,handwork,technical challenging in the sense that it has to accomplish the ability to withstand the pressure of champagne. 

Sophia Brueckner & Eric Rosenbaum created a touch sensitive musical painting.An example of artwork which combines multiple sense modalities.

https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/long-distance-friendship-lamp Long distance lamps that light up when you touch them this interaction is used as a from of long distance communication to let you loved one or friend etc know your thinking of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHWO6O3cr8 Dance as a form of touch.This performance in particular was formed around the idea of connections. more than steps and routine a connection metaphorically and physical between dancers on stage.(metaphorical touch an idea i’ve already come across in my research) relationships intimacy intitaion all around the idea of touch which is becoming rare in this generation of society who are ground up addicted to technology and not experiencing the realness of touch how they should be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakzpJkubbs this video too touches on dance and touch the importance it has in regards to the future of intimacy. http://artsandsociety-iygu.org/artists/yanivjanson/ please do touch please do take pictures opposite of standard art practice but the reason he has come up with this phrase is to draw connections between mainstream communities and the disability communities. challenging traditional art rules with the invitation to touch and engaging audiences that are usually excluded from experiencing art 

Research

The Sense of touch haptics affects and technologies Mark Paterson 1st Sense developed in womb.Overlooked.touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday embodied experience.Describing how to feel seeing with hands,touching with eyes. eye-superficial smell-voluptuous ear-haughty taste-superstitious and inconstant touch-crucial to embodied existence,profound philosophical touch is a modality resulting from the combined information of innumerable receptors and never endings concerned with pain ,pressure and movement. Sense of Communication receptive,expressive,empathy bring distant objects and people into proximity  immediate,deep or metaphorical touching affirmation comforting alternative emotional connotation ‘i was touched by her speech’ -russian language defines sense of touch as ‘in reality all 5 senses can be reduced to one.the sense of touch -tounge-palate -ear-sound-nose-smell-eyes light-” touch experiments blindfolds most common in touch experiments because it helps to elimate other senses so you can concentrate and heighten the one. sand paper rankings what part of the body is most sensitive to touch? doing a tactile maze with hands doing a puzzle without sight Somatosensory system largest in body produces feedback when you come in physical contact with your environment. feedback includes body position (proprioception) sensing movement of your body and limbs (Kinesthesis) pain (nociception) temperature touch  The Painters Touch Boucher Chardin Fragnard using notion of touch examines the implications of their strategic investment in materality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of painting to the culture of enlightenment.operation of surface and deep materality. formation of artistic identity. examines what paintings actually ‘say’  in brushstrokes.texture and paint.transforms and understanding of the role of painting in the emergence of modernity. The Forgotten Sense  meditations on touch Pablo Maurette touch is the external epidermal sensation of the outside world and the intimate experiences of our inner beauty. allows us to perceive the world not only as texture but also as pressure and temperature. touching-assesses touch-physical contact-superficial computer games,watches ,sex toys -forms of media that allow for teletacitity art galleries-exhibitions -involvement of vistor/viewer- experiencing space and atmosphere.Example : Tate Britian new way of experiencing painting,New Sensorium. more than just looking at art creating a whole sensory experience.things to eat touch smell opposite of expectations of a normal gallery . Touching and making: encounters with matter  Gagon,Charles 2012 Pov of an artist cornered with tactile aspects of art production pays particular attention to the physical characteristics of the materials used to generate artwork. size thickness weight tools perspective to overcome classical separation of material and the abstract

manipulable conceptual art prioritizing thinking. Losing our touch  Richard Kearney are we losing our sense?in our increasingly virtual world.touch -most intelligent sense and most sensitive ‘touch knows differences”

alienation from flesh.

Initial Explorations

preliminary findings based upon some everyday observations, recording what you notice, making notes, drawings, taking photographs, experimenting with language, making collages, sample gathering - textures, etc..

Consider a variety of environments, situations, times of day, the material, atmospheres, etc. vibrations! -elevators,roads next to heavy moving traffic,phone ringing,earphones or speakers blasting loud music.closing eyes intensifies these feelings of touch and vibration. edit:coming back to this idea around both touch in a world of technology and vibrations i came across an article and reserach about phantom phone vibrations and why these occur. can be based on a feeling and sensation of knowing your expecting a call at sometime but the fact where so sure weve felt it steems from the prior phsyical experience and is purely a hallucination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SgBM-E4880 a way to present later information of my sense which really enhances the physicality of touch. Education = I noticed that the way young children learn is all based on the senses touch being very important.When googling experiments a lot of them were performed with kids as they learn best hands on. Touch is just apart of being a kid living with my nephew means i have heard countless times the words”don’t touch that” as they just have this curious urge to touch things as a means of exploration and learning by no means are their intentions to misbehave. I was playing with slime with my nephew when it started to spark ideas about the way he uses sense in comparison to adults.Toys! building,playing with sand climbing rolling jumping interacting with nature.Touch very close with sight and hearing are the very first senses a newborn child experience.

Group Activity

Each person wrote a short descriptive story about something they’d had to eat it the last day or two once complete we chopped and mixed them up.

Additional Texts

healing experience; it makes one part of rhe eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earrh. A lot of theory discusses 'the body' as if it could be considered in isolation - but the artist's body is self-evidently self-reflexive. notes/important excerpts/my understandings/points of interest Design with the senses and for the senses:an alternative teaching model for design studio - May Al-lbrashy &Tammy Gaber ‘The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress’ (Goethe qtd. In Pallasmaa, 2005, p. 14) installation-  they were used to expressing buildings through drawings, photos and words. This is how they had been taught  to analyse and design. asked  to translate the ideas and understanding of one of their case study buildings into a bodily experience and to refer to conceptual and installation art as a genre. address the sense of touch but evoked a mix of all of the senses. We were asked to enter the room in line with our eyes closed, with each person’s hand on the previous person’s shoulder . installation making involved bringing the student back to primal actions of making with their hands.The ‘real’ properties of materials, their textures, ability to stretch, stand, support, transmit light and so forth became part of the design process for the students. While each student had a preliminary idea of what they wanted in their installation, modifications were made while making, often with improvisations and unexpected solutions 

“The skin reads the texture, weight, density and temperature of matter… The tactile sense connects us with time and tradition: through impressions of touch we shake the hands of countless generations…” (Pallassmaa, 2005, p.56). The Informe Body  Tracey Warr This article discusses this oscillating flux in relation to a range of visual artists using their own bodies in their artworks - in performance, painting, sculpture, photography, film and video. Vagina Painting heavy aspects of performativity The artist's body is an art object that will not stay put and fixed in its role, it is contingent and gets up and walks back into the artist's life. As art object the artist's body is always ephemeral. leaving only its imprint or trace in gelatin, paint, microchips or its relic in cast objects, its indexical mark or stain, or simply its memory burnt on the retina and the cortex.

Examples of work:1 Artists leave their trace behind - in the body prints that Yves Klein made in Anthropometries 2, in Francesca Woodman's enigmatic photographs of herself as an almost insubstantial body in flight through a world of materiality, or in Ana Mendieta's imprints of her silhouette in mud, grass and ash.2 it commands a bodily as well as an imaginative empathy from its viewers. how the body is at once subjective and an interface with the objective world, A lot of theory discusses 'the body' as if it could be considered in isolation - but the artist's body is self-evidently self-reflexive. An Archtiecture of the Seven Senses_Holl, In Questions of Perception 2006  The shape of touch example:It is pleasurable to press a door handle shining from the thousand hands that have entered the door before us; the clean shimmer of ageless wear has turned intro an image of welcome and hospitality. The door handle is the handshake of the building. The tactile sense connects us with time and tradition; through marks of touch we shake the hands of countless generations. feet on ground feeling through our soles: healing experience; it makes one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth. skin-sensation of home -warmth-fireplace-intimacy-comfort The eye of the skin architecture & the senses Juhani Dallasmma dominance of the visual realm in today's technological and consumer culture.sight-hierarchy-causing suppression of the other sensory realms- impoverishment of our environment-feeling if detachment/alienation. “the dancer has his ear in his toes”

Set Texts

notes/important excerpts/my understandings/points of interest

Thinking multi-sensory culture Laura U Marks: Keywords: proximal sense,touch,taste,smell,ethics,epistemology “examples of olfactory illustrations emphasize the sense of smell which,i,posit,given its intimacy with emotion and memory,gives rise to and olfactory unconscious” Sensory hierarchy. vehicles of knowledge. western aesthetics vision and hearing are only used as vehicles of beauty- de-hierarchzed “outward“inward“ smell illustrations without knowing what they are- discomfort of having unknown molecules in your nose. smell,taste and touch have to do with matter as such its immediately sensuous qualities...for this reason these senses cant have to do with artistic object,which are meant to maintain themselves in their real indepence and all in of no purely sensuous relationship what is agreeable for these senses is not the beauty of art. hedonistic,Heimlich neuroscience amy gdala hippo-campus most sensory events combine the experience of several senses simultaneously. Studies show that an odor smells stronger when the smeller knows what its smelling- association ,knowing humans,animals,emotional experience,repressed experiences,smell memory-disruption,emotion,identify source. Ecco-Umberto The Sublime 1.a new concept of beauty  epoch neoclassicism beauty as a quality of the object that we perceive as beautiful.this is why it fell back on classical definitions such as “unity in variety”“proportion”“harmony”Hogarths view= line of beauty and a line of grace.another way of saying that the conditions for beauty lie in the form of the object. genius,taste,imagination,sentiment.qualities of those who invent or produce a beautiful thing.taste denotes quality if those capable of appreciating. X characteristics qualities,capacities,disposition. Subjectivity of taste judgement ad the experience of an effect with sine objective features of the thing deemed beautiful,beauty appears to perceiver bound with the recognition of pleasure. sublime in an effect of art ‘does not persuade audience but rather transport them out of themselves” sublime in nature fear,pity. beautiful portrayals of ugliness,terror,death,monsters or purification devil aesthetic pleasure split into 2 provinces beauty and sublime catharsis how can terror be pleasant too detachment from the views of fear Beauty and the Sublime  Friedrich Von  Schiller nature provides us with two genesis to accompany us through life,Joyful,playful and sociable appeal.beauty indeed sense of freedom but not entirely of nature and influence,rather an expression of that freedom we enjoy as men within nature.feel free in presence of beauty because our sensible instincts are in harmony with the law of reason.sense of sublime is a mixed emotion.sense of sorrow,shudder,joy not actually pleasure refined souls prefer it. combination of two contradictory perceptions in a single feeling is irrefutable proof of our moral independence. related to object in two different  ways as consequence two opposed natures must be united in our state of mind not necessarily determined by own sensible perceptions laws of nature not our own vital energy power William Fish Chapter 1  Philosophy of Perception a contemporary introduction 3 x key principles 2 hats 2 tests epistemological hat-focuses on perceptions role of Providence is with information about the external world. phenomenological hat- focuses on the conscious aspects of visual experiences the representation principle the phenomenal principle the common factor principle theories of perception end up rejecting one or more of them CFP - begins from observation that different experiences can be more or less correct  illusion,hallucination-in which it seems to the subject as though something is seen but in actual fact nothing is seen;example: macbeths hallucination of a dagger.mental state or event TRY-intentional propositions,which specifies the way the experience repeats the world to be peacocke 1983:5 represents perceiver as in a particular environment harman 1990:34 human beings hone a number of different perceptual faculties or senses.the familiar five are sight or vision,hearing or audition,taste or gustation,smell or olfaction and touch or tactiliation debate over precisely how many senses we have.cases can be made for the other debatable senses such as perception of pain and and propprioception limb position Non-Human other & Kaupapa  Maori Research Te Kawehau Hoskins & Alison Jons nonhuman world has agency.new materialism “consult non-humans more closely” 

Seeing Things apprehending material culture Tim Dart there are occasions we look and we cannot make sense of what we see  glass of water -light/dark example when view is unclear viewers chose own oath scan visual field. Remembering the Senses Susan Stewart ‘forming of the 5 sense is a labor of the entire history of the world down to the present’ suggesting that senses are historical human accomplishment. power source of material memory.registered in our consciousness our bodies carry them somatically repression,unconscious. Visual Culture and an aesthetics of embodiment - Paul Duncum Keywords: aesthetics,embodiment,visual culture,modernism.popular culture article provides both theory and history perspective on recent shift in at education towards consideration of contemporary global sites of visual culture.cultural sites,highly sexualised,violence imagery conceptualized in term of aesthetic embodiment. vulgar crude sensationalist . proprioception:’our sense of being in a body and orientated in space’ - one of his principles is the idea that the body refuses to be denied. clarity easy group parallels to logical thought art in his view adds nothing of substance to argument and should only be valued due to its emotional opportunities. didn't like all senses liked only those he could equate with reason.this view on sensation too limited and insufficiently removed from reason. associated senses alone,undisciplined by the mind,with coarse feelings,whereas the mind only entertains finer feelings. carnival body and consumer body.embraces all bodily sensations not just a few privileged ones .attends to an (un)pleasant  sensation.aroused.an aesthetics of embodiment is a necessary construct for dealing with many forms of contemporary visual culture.

The explosion of Sensory History Mark M Smith can we ever really understand how people of the past perceive their world in sensory terms? colonizing sounds .ownership of sounds.smells and race stereotypes enforcing social hierarchy.