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Introduction: Intersenses and New TechnologiesAuthor(s): Jacques MandelbrojtSource: Leonardo, Vol. 36, No. 4 (2003), p. 311Published by: The MIT PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1577330 .

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Intersenses and New Technologies

I n accordance with the theme "Synesthesia and Intersenses"-which was devel- oped in several articles published in Leonardo after the call for papers on synesthesia byJack Ox and the joint call for papers on synesthesia and intersenses by Ox and myself-the Labo- ratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille (MIM), the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), Leonardo and the Laboratoire de Neuro-cybernetique Cellulaire organized in Mar- seille, France, a 5-day colloquium entitled "Intersenses and New Technologies." Its initial themes were: * Extreme computing: New technologies create new impulses and new possibilities for multi-

media art, which can engage several of our senses. "Extreme computing" refers to art that would be impossible to realize without computers.

* Structural intersense, in which a structural relationship between different arts is established through a code created by the artist [1].

* Intuitive intersense, in which an artist, based on intuition or emotions, freely interprets a work of art in one medium that engages one of our senses to create a work of art in an- other medium that engages another of our senses.

* Intersenses-Intersciences: On the light that diverse sciences, and in particular the neuro- sciences, can shed on the phenomenon of synesthesia (see the following article byJ.P. Ter- naux). Retrospectively a few unifying themes emerged, two of which were (1) the role of the artist,

the spectator and, in particular, interactivity; and (2) the role of structures, codes, combina- torics and conversely that of chance. But in my opinion one of the most striking recurrent themes was that of what we might call "muscular images" [2], which are at the foundation of

perception of both visual artworks and music. This theme is developed as it concerns music in the following articles by Rolf Inge God0y and Franfois Delalande.

The presentations to the colloquium are published on the MIM web site: <www.labo-mim.

org>.

JACQUES MANDELBROJT Leonardo Honorary Editor

Colloquium Organizer

References

1.J. Ox, "Color Me Synesthesia," Leonardo 32, No. 1, 7-8 (1999).

2. J. Mandelbrojt, "Intersenses," Leonardo 32, No. 1, 1-4 (1999).

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