Essays about: "synesthetic aesthetics"

Found 2 essays containing the words synesthetic aesthetics.

1. 1. TANGLED IN A GOLDEN MESH Synesthesia in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Maria Palmqvist; [2022-06-29]
   Keywords : Virginia Woolf; synesthesia; synesthetic aesthetics; Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; modernism;

   Abstract : While synesthesia is generally considered to be a subjective representation of one's perception of the world, this essay seeks to problematise and to extend the notion of synesthesia solely being a trait of subjectivity, suggesting that is also works as a method of connection. In the literary field of modernism the idea of merging the senses into an all-encompassing experience has been prominent and widely explored. READ MORE

3. 2. Phantom Physicalizations Reinterpreting Dreams Through Physical Representation

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Vincent Olislagers; [2012]
   Keywords : interaction design; phenomenology; dreams; critical design; ludic design; arduino; ethnography; cultural probes; research through design; aesthetics; philosophy; design; interaction;

   Abstract : This thesis begins with a philosophical question: What if we could amplify our waking experience with the aesthetic qualitiesof dreams? Through a discourse on experiential dream related aspects in philosophy, design and daily life it examines what itmeans, and has meant, to dream, and how these qualities already permeate the physical world. I hypothesize that objects capable of representing dream related physiological data as physical output have the potential to amplify our waking experience. READ MORE