Lecture / Class Activity

• Blog setup sharing by NTU Library: https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/da9004-201617s1
• Sensory Perception and embodiment: art meets science
  Sensory perception lies at the heart of both disciplines: art and neuroscience. Today brain plasticity and cross model interaction are current potentials and resources shared by scientists. Artists can help to demystify these complexities for diverse audiences. The aim of this workshop is to explore your own levels of sensory efficiency and clarity as well as increases your knowledge of how perception works. Scott believes that both these trajectories can help artists, designers and their audiences understand more about embodiment and the nature of communication and comprehension. This workshop will be accompanied by a lecture on Neuromedia and some sensory systems lab exercises to raise awareness about the senses of touch, taste, smell and vision. It will include proprioception techniques from Body-Mind Centering training.

  Jill Scott is Professor for Art and Science Research in the Institute Cultural Studies in the Arts, at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and Founder of the Artists-in-Labs Program and Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her recent publications include: Neuromedia: Art and Science Research together with Esther Stöckli (2012), The Transdiscourse book series: Volume 1: Mediated Environments, (2011), Artists-in-labs: Networking in the Margins,(2011)  and Artists-in-labs:  Processes of Inquiry (2006). All publications were with Springer Press. Upcoming publications include: Transdiscourse 2 Turbulence and Reconstruction and Recomposing art and Science- Artists-in-labs both with de Gruyter press. Her own artwork spans 38 years of production about the human body, behaviour and body politics, but in the last 10 years she has focused on creative media art experiments about neuroscience, ecology and sensory perception resulting in a series called Neuromedia: the interpretative constructions of interactive mediated sculptures with interactive film segments based on actual scientific research and imbedded with cultural metaphors.

  Requirements: My suggestion : Lecture 1 hour followed by workshop 2 hours.
  Lecture: Beamer and screen- with sound….the lecture on Neuromedia can be unlimited.
  Workshop: no more than 22 people.  We need an even number for pair work. Participants should bring pens, brushes, some paints and white A 4 paper.
  Also they should bring scarves to tie over their eyes. A few video cameras for documentation would be very interesting.

Post-class activity

• Post your modboards on your assigned blogs.
• Post your research and findings on current wearable technology projects to the blog.
• Contribute interesting websites or resources to the main class site under “sharing”.